Verge Aero, the specialist in high performance drone light shows, has achieved an aerial first in Mexico, delivering the country’s first ever drone light show. Working with local partner Sky Precision, Verge Aero provided a system of 150 drone lights to create moving, color-changing pictures in the sky to open the performance by Dutch DJ Martin Garrix, marking Mexico’s Día de Muertos (Day of the Dead) at the FIG19 hot-air balloon festival.
 

Verge Aero, the specialist in high performance drone light shows, placed its drone technology at the heart of a ground-breaking new music video by award-winning Australian dance music trio PNAU, featuring American singer Ollie Gabriel. The project marked the first use of a large-scale drone light show in a music video.

Verge Aero, the specialist in high performance drone light shows, recently added a brand-new dimension to Mexico’s biggest and oldest carnival. A 130-drone display, in the skies above Mazatlán’s Olas Altas bay, delivered a spectacular new twist to the town’s traditional six-day carnival celebration, Carnaval de Mazatlán.
 

As part of ongoing upgrades and developments to its studio facilities, Verizon Media – the Verizon digital-media division combining AOL and Yahoo! – has taken delivery of three state-of-the-art mc²36 audio production consoles and a Nova37 Hybrid IP/MADI Plug&Play Audio Router for its studio facilities from German IP broadcast technology pioneer, Lawo.

As summer takes its hold, Lawo is pleased to present a new software release – v4.10. Available for download from Lawo’s Download Center since the end of June, it is more stable, faster, and carries multiple new features.

Fall Out Boy just wrapped “The Boys of Zummer Tour” (sic) co-headlining with Wiz Khalifa, and once again Clay Paky fixtures were along for the exciting cross-country ride.  A.C.T Lighting, Inc. is the exclusive distributor of Clay Paky products in North America.

Classical Spectacular, one of the UK’s most popular classical music showcase, returned to the Royal Albert Hall over the weekend to celebrate its 30th Anniversary at the venue, backed by an enormous production featuring an indoor firework display, rifles and cannons. Esteemed lighting designer Durham Marenghi has selected a variety of Claypaky fixtures for the Raymond Gubbay production.

Signify (Euronext: LIGHT), the world leader in lighting, today announced that the quality and versatility of its Philips Vari-Lite stage lighting fixtures have helped to conjure the magic of the big-top for the sumptuous Circus 1903 - The Golden Age of Circus. The dazzling show, complete with life-sized elephant puppets, thrilled audiences at its most recent run at Singapore's Marina Bay Sands Grand Theatre.
 

The organizer of this year's Gymnaestrada in Lausanne installed a comprehensive audio and communications infrastructure. The system consisted of a RockNet digital audio network and communications infrastructure comprising Artist digital matrix intercom and TETRA digital trunked radio from Riedel Communications.

CNBC, the leading business and financial news channel, recently began broadcasting from completely refurbished studios at its European headquarters in London The new studio was designed to support one ultimate goal – to deliver the most essential business news to the most influential and affluent audience.

Elation Professional’s ACL 360 Bar™ color-changing LED battens are being used by lighting designer Andy Knighton to add a flare of lighting dynamism to the Rascal Flatts “Rhythms & Roots” tour, a post-Vegas residency outing that has the country music trio on the road in the U.S. until mid-October.   

“The ACL 360 Bars are used as a ‘spice’ for this show to enhance an otherwise typical video background,” says Knighton, who has been designing the lighting for Rascal Flatts since 2003. “We were attracted to them due to their affordability, weight, and versatility. The overall visual concept was to be strategic and tasteful and not just bang away all night. They are used in every song but never do we repeat a feature.”

The Viña del Mar International Song Festival (Spanish: Festival Internacional de la Canción de Viña del Mar) is a music festival held annually since 1960 in Viña del Mar, Chile, and considered one of the most important musical events in the Americas. Staged at the Quinta Vergara Amphitheatre, the festival features a song competition with two categories (pop music and folk songs), interspersed with performances by international music stars from around the world, encompassing a diverse mix of genres like rock, multi-lingual pop, merengue, salsa, reggaetón, bachata and many others.

Delec, the communication specialist from Eisenberg (Germany), is clearly placing its bets for 2015 on versatility. At the leading prolight+sound fair, the company indeed presents four brand-new Dante™ converters of the Delec unito product line, Dante™ enabled subscriber panels and innovative radio interfaces.

Litepanels^®, a pioneer in LED lighting for the film, photographic, and broadcast industries, today announced that Version 2, a U.K.-based broadcast equipment rental house, has added a significant number of Litepanels’ all-new Gemini soft panel lights to its inventory. In this major purchase, Version 2 has adopted Gemini as its multifunction lighting solution for both studio and on-location projects.

Kitzbühel was turned into the setting of the first ever F1 showrun at an Alpine peak on Thursday. In the build-up to the legendary Hahnenkamm ski races, Max Verstappen unleashed the power of a Red Bull Racing world-championship winning car. Supported by 3,500 spectators, the Dutch driver provided a spectacular foretaste - amid splendid winter weather – of the 2016 Formula 1 Großer Preis von Österreich at over 1,600 metres altitude. Austrian F1 legends Gerhard Berger and Helmut Marko didn’t want to miss out on the first time a racing car has taken to the snow at the Hahnenkamm.