Sunday, May 19th, 2013
Bringing the world of technical theatre to you.
grandMA2 has proved to be a good bet for Casino Rama, Ontario’s only First Nations commercial casino, which stages 150 shows a year featuring top names in music and comedy. First Nations is a term that collectively refers to various Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis. Casino Rama invested in a [...]
In a major technical upgrade, the ORF center in Vienna has changed all its grandMA “series 1” consoles to grandMA2 consoles. The MA NSPs (Network Signal Processors) were also replaced by MA NPUs (Network Processing Units), and furthermore, the ORF has invested in new grandMA2 fader wings. Altogether the Austrian national public service broadcaster now [...]
Singer-songwriters Gavin DeGraw and David Cook, the latter an “American Idol” winner, are co-headlining a US Tour and a grandMA2 light is going along for the ride. DeGraw and Cook plan to visit 22 cities on a continental swing. DeGraw is performing songs from his fourth album, “Sweeter,” and Cook appears in support of his [...]
MA Lighting received two awards at the recent 4th annual PLASA Rock Our World Awards. The first was for the 83rd Annual Academy Awards ceremony, where a grandMA2 light played the crucial role of controlling 34 media servers, feeding multiple onstage screens via 70 video projectors. The second award was given for Disney’s World of [...]
The IRB Rugby World Cup was the biggest sporting event ever to be staged on New Zealand shores. It kicked-off on 9th September 2011 with the Opening Ceremony at Auckland’s Eden Park, broadcast to a global television audience estimated at over 50 million. An estimated 200,000 people crowded the Auckland waterfront precinct to take in [...]
Maná is a pop rock band from Mexico whose career has spanned more than three decades. They have earned three Grammy Awards, five Latin Grammy Awards and five MTV Video Music Awards Latin America. Accompanying their current “Drama e Luz” world tour that started this year is a grandMA2 system, comprising 1 x grandMA2 full-size [...]
The PLASA Show turned out to be a highlight for MA Lighting and its co-exhibitors MAJOR and Rainbow Colour Changers, with the new grandMA2 software release 2.4 receiving much attention. MA Lighting’s Managing Director Michael Althaus commented: “This year’s PLASA was the ideal platform for our new distributor Ambersphere Solutions to position itself in the [...]
