Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Bringing the world of technical theatre to you.
It was grandMA2’s night to sparkle en espanol. Lighting designer Carlos Colina who was responsible for Univision’s “Premio lo Nuestro a la Musica Latina” awards show, selected a pair of grandMA2 light consoles to control approximately 400 fixtures illuminating the gala special. The 23rd annual show honored Latin artists chosen by fans in online and [...]
The fourth Strictly Come Dancing The Live Tour is currently entertaining capacity audiences around the UK arenas with lighting designed by Mark Kenyon and run on a grandMA2 control package. The rig includes over 170 moving light sources plus hundreds of generics and scenic LED sources. The grandMA2 light console – with another grandMA2 light [...]
The “Schauspielhaus Bochum“ (Playhouse Bochum) is one of Germany’s biggest and best known theatres. Build in 1908 as a Variety theatre, it became the town theatre in 1915 and was the biggest stage in the “Ruhrgebiet”. During an air raid in 1944 it was nearly completely destroyed, and then rebuilt based on the design of [...]
When Scott Chmielewski, president of Digital Media Designs, put a pair of grandMA2 full-size consoles through their paces at Virgin Mobile’s FreeFest, a day-long music and dance extravaganza, he deployed the grandMA2’s brand new 2.0 software with stunning results. FreeFest attracted some 40,000 fans to the Merriweather Post Pavilion and surrounding grounds at Columbia, Maryland [...]
Cirque Du Soleil’s fabulous Varekai show – currently touring Europe – has transferred its lighting control to a grandMA2 system, with a grandMA2 light as the main show console and another grandMA2 light running in full tracking backup. The decision to change to the latest lighting control technology was made by Varekai’s Head of Lighting, [...]
UK based lighting designer Paul Normandale specified a grandMA2 light console to run lighting for the Scissor Sisters current “Nightworks” world tour. Normandale likes the feel of the console, and used one with Glen Johnson (Scissor Sisters Lighting Director) on the Courteeners earlier in the year. Johnson has been using the grandMA2 ever since it [...]
With the upcoming PLASA 2010 exhibition, MA Lighting is will be presenting its latest developments in Control, Dimming, Networking and Video/Media at its booth E 24 in Earls Court One. With many eyes upon the grandMA2, MA will present its latest software release, 2.0, which adds a multitude of new functionality, such as layout pool [...]
