Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Bringing the world of technical theatre to you.
Longtime grandMA user Chris Kuroda, who’s marking his 22nd year as the lighting designer for the rock band Phish, has taken a pair of grandMA2 full-size consoles along on the musicians’ cross-country summer tour. Lighting programmer Andrew Giffin suggested using the grandMA2 for lighting control, and Kuroda reports that the two desks have been “a [...]
Visuals designer Neil Trenell was using his grandMA2 full-size console and a grandMA2 light for backup to control video at London’s legendary Roundhouse venue for the month long iTunes Festival, which ran for all of July. The Roundhouse shows were produced by W1 Productions. Over 60 artists were performing on 31 consecutive nights, all being [...]
Recently the Dutch singer and songwriter Guus Meeuwis celebrated his 15th year as a singer and his 5th year of stadium concerts – so it was time for a big party. His show “Groots met een zachte G” was staged at the Abe Lenstra Stadium in Heerenveen and the PSV Stadium in Eindhoven – both [...]
Billed as the world’s most expensive (US$5.7 billion) standalone casinos, Marina Bay Sands is an integrated resort fronting Marina Bay in Singapore. With the casino complete, the resort also features a 2,560-room hotel, a 120,000m² convention-exhibition centre, The Shoppes Mall, an Art & Science museum, two Sands Theatres, six restaurants, two floating pavilions and a [...]
Three grandMA full-size consoles and a grandMA2 light were used to control nearly 500 high powered light sources for the colourful and highly acclaimed Closing Ceremony of the 2010 World Cup, staged at Soccer City Stadium, Soweto, Johannesburg. The 2010 Closing Ceremony event was produced by the VWV Group, it featured a cast of 740 [...]
With all eyes on South Africa for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, SABC (The South African Broadcasting Corporation) set up the hub for its World Cup broadcast studio in Exhibition 1 at the Sandton Convention Centre, central Johannesburg. All the match coverage and several regular programmes are being transmitted from the studio for the duration [...]
