Sound Workshop was established in 1984, making it the oldest audio visual company in the ACT. It has recently expanded into lighting and rigging services, installations and crew hire. “We needed a complete package including console, cabling and LED fixtures,” commented Wayne Bateup, Sound Workshop’s Rigger/ Head of Lighting. “Show Technology’s Evan Lyle put together a package that suited all …
Latest generation of industry-leading Glaciator system is quieter, more compact and rugged, and features a global universal power supply ProLight + Sound (Hall 3.0, Stand C50), FRANKFURT—HARMAN Professional Solutions, the global leader in audio, video, lighting and control systems, including networked AV, today announced the new Martin by HARMAN JEM Glaciator Dynamic low-fog system. The JEM Glaciator Dynamic represents the …
Brit Award winning and multi-platinum artist Paloma Faith made her debut with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House this April. Surpassed only by Adele, Faith is the first female artist this decade to have her last three albums go double platinum in the United Kingdom. Peter Rubie Lighting Design was tasked with lighting her two shows with …
Oceania Lighting has grown its’ Martin Professional MAC Quantum Profile stock up to forty-four units, with some located in their Wellington Branch as well as Auckland. “We find them to be an excellent work horse unit,” commented Simon Garrett, General Manager of Lighting at Oceania. “We’ve had our initial Quantum Profiles for eighteen months and we’ve had virtually no output …
We are proud to announce our new partnership with AV Stumpfl, the Austrian AV technology manufacturer as their exclusive distributor for Australia and New Zealand. Branching into the AV industry, we are excited to expand our service offering for existing clients; extending our well-known support and service reliability to now include AV Stumpfl’s suite of projection screens and media products. …
The NW Group has invested in eight Claypaky Scenius Unico, a spotlight renowned for its quality of light. The Scenius Unico has six rotating gobos, a rotating prism, a beautiful animation wheel, and it is equipped with the most sophisticated and most precise framing system on the market today. The Scenius Unico is also an excellent wash light, since it …
When Ben Hunt, Head of Lighting at the Empire Theatres, first fired up their new Robert Juliat Dalis LED cyc lights, his first impression was ‘finally we’ve found something up to the task’. “It’s no secret that to light a cyclorama with conventional asymmetrical floods is going to require some serious power along with its consumable lamps and colour filters …
In November of last year, NW Group won the tender to upgrade the flood lighting on the roof of Wellington’s Michael Fowler Centre. The MFC is a 2200 seat concert hall with seating over two levels. It has hosted many international acts and is the home of the NZSO (New Zealand Symphony Orchestra). The award-winning venue is topped with a …
Based in Queenstown, TomTom Productions is a design oriented production company offering a wide variety of lighting and video concepts to events throughout New Zealand’s south island and beyond. After recently taking stock of twelve Claypaky Mythos 2 and 200 meters of Martin Professional VDO Sceptron TomTom decided to test their new equipment straightaway sending it to the Rhythm and …
Andy Mutton of Lightning Lighting has purchased two Spheriscans, Claypaky’s revolutionary scanner with a modern twist.The Spheriscan’s pan rotation does not have an end-stop: its mirror goes on turning endlessly beyond 360 degrees, which creates an absolutely original swirling effect. “When I saw that the Claypaky Spheriscan allows continual rotation of the mirror I thought ‘wow, imagine applying that to …
