CHATANOOGA, TN – “You’ve got to go back if you want to go forward,” Snoop Dogg once wrote. The superstar rapper, music producer, and all around uber talent, is doing plenty of both on his current High School Reunion tour with Wiz Khalifa. Taking its name from the duo’s 2012 iconic film Mac & Devlin […]

SAN ANTONIO – Everything looks better in colorful light, even something as remarkably beautiful as a world-famous tourist attraction that draws some 34 million visitors a year. LD Systems demonstrated that recently when it transformed the city of San Antonio into a glittering field of brightness and color for the US Travel Association’s IPW 23 […]

SUNRISE, FL – “When two forces are combined, their power doubles” observed Sir Isaac Newton. The famed physicist’s words ring especially true for the recently introduced Maverick Force 3 Profile and Maverick Force 2 Beam Wash. The latest additions to CHAUVET Professional’s popular Force series, the two feature-rich fixtures have the power to transform any […]

LONDON – “The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet,” wrote Andy Warhol. Had he been around today, the groundbreaking pop artist would likely have appreciated the genius of Mumford & Sons. After 14 million albums sold, including two No. 1 hits, and a fistful of awards from Grammys to Brits, the […]

MANCHESTER, TN – Moving lighting fixtures around at a festival often requires some careful logistics. Moving crews around calls for considerable skill too. George Cannon got a first hand view of both recently when he was hired by Harford Sound Ltd. to be the “house LD” at the THAT tent at Bonnaroo. “Harford Sound was […]

COLOGNE – An observant pedestrian who passed DIE HALLE Tor 2 didn’t have to be a DJ music fan, to sense that something special was about to happen. Even by the standards of this popular club, the excitement that evening was out of the ordinary. The reason can be traced to a single word “Sefa.” […]

PILTON, UK – They might not have been as common as flags at Glastonbury, but CHAUVET Professional fixtures seemed to be everywhere one looked at Worthy Farm during the world-famous event. The company’s products were used to add extra colour and excitement to 17 of the festival’s stages. Included in the group were main attractions […]

NEW RIVER GORGE, WV – “We really like outdoor adventures, and we really like music, so we wanted to create a weekend where we could do both at the same time,” Jerry Cook and Ernie Kincaid, founders of Mountain Music Festival, said about their event. Having just completed its ninth year, the annual early summer […]

MANCHESTER, TN  – With stars like Zeds Dead, STS9, Louis The Child, Subronics, Liquid Stranger, Walker & Royce, and Alesso, The Other Stage at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival served up plenty of EDM firepower. Only a beefed up, high-intensity lighting rig could match the ferocity of this music – and that’s precisely what […]

At one point in his career, this Orlando-based lighting designer and programmer was asked to tour with The Stringed Cheese Incident. Having started out lighting at EDM clubs and cut his teeth with metal acts, he was somewhat wary, uncertain of how his style would mesh with the unfamiliar psychedelic-country tinged music of this band. […]

The perfection of art is to conceal art. These words written by the Roman philosopher Quintilian, would resonate deeply with many lighting designers and content creators today, as they explore new ways to transform the stage without being conspicuous to fans. Much of this “sleight of hand” centers around the video wall. No longer used […]

In the best of all worlds, lighting designers don’t merely have relationships with longtime clients; instead they embark on journeys of discovery with them. Sharing these odysseys, they grow together in new, and often unanticipated ways, expanding their horizons and feeding off each other’s creativity. In the end, their collective their work, as well as […]