Victoria’s Horsham Town Hall complex provides world-class performance, visual arts and conferencing facilities and allows the community to enjoy the highest quality international, national and locally-produced events. In previous years, the building has been lit up at night by cheap fixtures that started to fail after only a year so when Shane Podolski, Team Leader…
Dark Mofo’s late-night offerings have established a cult following over the past nine years, and this winter the annual Hobartian ritual rose again, in a new incarnation titled Night Mass: Transcendence. Night Mass lured the faithful into a labyrinthine neighbourhood writhing with contemporary dance, Avant-Garde electronic music, rock’n’roll, misty archways and car bars, DJs, and…
The Kingston Butter Factory has been transformed into a world-class community precinct for arts, culture and entertainment including Logan’s largest outdoor event space with a capacity for up to 5,000 people. Even though most of the lighting fixtures are located beneath the stage roof they still needed to be IP-rated as they are permanently housed…
Ed Sheeran’s current Mathematics world tour comprises a lighting rig composed almost entirely of Ayrton IP65-rated fixtures. Mark Cunniffe’s design incorporates 138 Ayrton Domino LT, 48 Perseo Profile and 22 of the new Ayrton Cobra laser-sourced fixture. Designed for rendering a D65 white point that allows perfect colour reproduction, Cobra is the only luminaire on…
In preparing for the tour, Dave decided it was time to dive into the MA3 software and whilst the software was in development throughout and improving, ultimately it was a very stable crash-free experience on MA3 software and Showtech support was always there to assist with small issues or teething problems as they might have…
Hot off her opening slot for superstar Billie Eilish’s world tour, Tkay Maidza the Zimbabwe-born, Australian-raised singer and rapper made her make her long-awaited debut at the Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid Live. The gig was held in the Joan Sutherland Theatre where Penn & Teller had been playing and lighting designer Tom…
The Spotlight Group recently opened a mixed-use site on the Sunshine Coast featuring the largest Spotlight store in the world. The privately-owned Melbourne-based company opened the 6000sqm Spotlight in Maroochydore alongside two other of their brands – Anaconda and Harris Scarfe. VAST-Vision and Sound Technology were approached to illuminate the exterior of the store with…
St Catherine’s Waverley, a private Anglican day and boarding school for girls located in Sydney, recently opened a state-of-the-art Performing Arts Auditorium to enhance the school’s existing performing arts curriculum by providing a facility that integrates the operational mechanics of modern-day theatre with a world-class performance venue. The design includes an orchestra pit for approximately…