eclipse Staging Services has added a pre-visualisation suite, incorporating WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) into its service offering, further enhancing its clients’ experience when choosing and designing a technical package for their event. With this new facility, the client, video and lighting departments have the ability to visualise different looks in a virtual 3D environment and to determine the best methods for reaching their design goals. The ability to rough-in cue structure for the show in advance of arrival at the show venue saves time and production costs and is an invaluable tool to producers to pitch creative ideas…
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Following the successful partnerships with the JW Marriott Hotel, Dubai and the Jumeirah at Etihad Towers, Abu Dhabi, eclipse Venue Services has continued in the same progressive vein now managing in-house audio visual services for eight leading luxury hotels across the UAE. The new partnerships are with The Conrad Dubai, Palazzo Versace Dubai, Le Meridien Dubai Hotel and Conference Centre, the St. Regis Dubai, The Westin Dubai Al Habtoor City and W Dubai Al Habtoor City. eclipse will offer its unique 24/7 on-site sales and technical support. The partnership with eclipse Venue Services ensures that the property and its clients…
Over 500,000 people attended, The Experience, a mega concert at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos, Nigeria. The show is an interdenominational gospel concert organised in Nigeria by The House On The Rock, a vibrant, multi-ethnic church. Organisers chose an Outline audio system to ensure that the spoken word and music by the numerous artists such Don Moen, Donnie McClurkin, Fred Hammond, Micah Stampley, Kim Burrell, Hezekiah Walker, Jessica Reedy and Sonnie Badu, were heard loud and clear by the huge crowd. Cytech World Communication were called in for the third consecutive year to handle sound production for the huge event that…
South African design company Formative was contracted by Cassper Nyovest to provide full creative direction, production and content design, show and technical production for his #fillupthedome show in Johannesburg. The Production Design was based around his very dynamic music and the creation of special ‘moments’, a process that built throughout the show, revealing different elements as the music called for them. For lighting and video control, Formative relied on an MA Lighting grandMA2. The artist’s brief was to create a live show – in impact – like some of those great ones that he himself has been inspired by. The only specific request was…
Maestra Group provided a complete turnkey technical solution to the Sheikh Mohammed Bin Saeed Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan (SMK) Emeriti Ladies Tennis Tournament in Abu Dhabi for the second consecutive year. The competition, staged in a private residence in the city, is held under the patronage of Sheikha Miriam bint Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and was founded by Sheikha Shaikha Bint Mohammed bin Khalid Al Nahyan in 2009. Central to this year’s event was a 23 metres by five metres, 10mm outdoor LED video wall provided by Maestra and run on the company’s new Dataton 6 Watchout servers which…
The rental outfit becomes the first company in South Africa to invest in Kinesys automation. MGG was founded by Mark Gaylard in early 1998, and has grown into one of the leading production solutions facilities in the country. The company has always been a proactive investor in innovative premium brands and technologies, a strategy that’s kept them at the forefront of the busy South African entertainment production industry, and that was also a driver in the Kinesys purchase, which comprises 16 LibraCELL load monitoring shackles and a fully specified D8+ 8-way DigiHoist controller, supplied via Electrosonic, the exclusive Kinesys re-seller in…
The lighting console was recently brought into country due to a new investment by leading full production solution and rental company, dB Audio Namibia, based in capital Windhoek. The company is active in all areas of corporate and entertainment live event production – from boardroom meetings to stadium concerts – which is currently a buoyant and developing sector in Namibia. dB Audio Namibia’s David Benade explained that the decision to purchase the dot2 XL-F was made by a combination of people from company’s management and lighting department, including himself and head of lighting, Desmond Coetzee. It was also dB Audio’s…
With 100% of the proceeds going to charity, the sold-out, three-day charity event was put together by NGO Everybody Love Everybody and featured a powerful Funktion One Audio rig. TPMEA reports from South Africa. Originally starting life as a one-off fundraiser to help a local orphanage, Beats in the Bush has quickly it grown into a major charity occasion and the flagship event in the organisers’ calendar. The gig happens once a year, generally over three days in the spring. Organiser Everybody Love Everybody (ELE) has hosted four Beats in the Bush events to date, with the first raising just…
Founded in 1994, the Almoe Group of Companies has various divisions focusing on distribution, integration and equipment rentals. They state that one of its core values is ‘quality, and our passion for impeccable, stellar products and services’. “We have been aware of the Chroma-Q line of LED PARs for some time, having seen them in action at various trade shows,” said Almoe’s Technical Director, Michael Fudge. “The purchase was made for our own rental stock, “We moved to LED PARs a few years back, but until now have been relying on lower end products, so these units are a direct…
Nicolas M Kyvernitis Electronics Ent (NMK), professional AV and communication distributor in the region, has announced the fifth year of the seminars’ series under the title NMK Academy. Each year the company hosts the seminars in Dubai for AV professionals who would like to improve product knowledge and try out new technology and products from various manufacturers. For the 2016 seminar series instructors from Shure, Midas, Clear-Com, Williams Sound, Mackie, Roland and Rational Acoustics will be travelling to Dubai from different parts of the world to pass on their knowledge and experience to local audio market. The seminars will be held…
Action Impact’s Event Director, Emma Clark, has achieved the International Special Events Society’s prestigious global designation as a Certified Special Events Professional. This accolade makes her the first person in the Middle East to be able to put the much coveted initials, CSEP, after her name. “After more than 10 years of hard work I thought it was the right time to prove myself on a global stage and get a qualification that could help me develop my skills even further,” said Clark. Since 1993 the CSEP qualification has provided global recognition to event professionals who have successfully demonstrated the…
Lighting Designer Massimo Tomasino used Clay Paky lights for Secrets of the Sea; a musical that was the focal point of the Qatar Marine Festival in Doha. The event was a fusion of Qatari and international music, which stems from a cultural exchange and huge cooperation between local and Italian artists. The composer Renato Serio composed the dance music together with Faisal al Tamimi. Tomasino cancelled all prior commitments in order to focus on the event, which the Choreographer and Director Gino Landi had already decided to entrust him with. There were several large moving elements on the…
