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For The Technical And Production Professionals in Asia DECEMBER 2019 Creative Technology at the IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 Evan Morris on The Psychology Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 Playing Key of Light and Colour Role in Urinetown Prolight + Sound to Celebrate 25th Anniversary With Focus on Present and Future www.e-techasia.com 3 CONTENTS DECEMBER 2019 54 IN THIS ISSUE VOL 20 ISSUE 12 DECEMBER 2019 41 04 FIRST WORDS 06 NEWS FEATURE 26 VIDEO FILES 48 The Psychology of Light and Colour! 28 ENNOVATIONS LIVE 50 QATAR: IAAF World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 SHOW PREVIEW 54 CHINA: Absen Supplies LED for the 2019 Zhuhai Championships 41 Prolight + Sound to Celebrate 25th Anniversary With Focus on Present and Future 56 AUSTRALIA: Shure Axient Digital Provides Flawless Coordination at the NRL Grand Final USER PERSPECTIVE 58 SOUTH KORIA: Christie Projectors Light Up Artworks of Prominent 44 Yamaha RIVAGE PM10 Playing Key South Korean Artist Park Chan-kyong Role in Urinetown 60 EVENTS CALENDAR ALEX COLUMN 47 Why Do We Even Need to Hear About dBFS? 61 MARKET PLACE ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA | www.e-techasia.com 4 FIRST WORDS Ram BhavanashiDECEMBER 2019 Editor, India And Middle East [email protected] Enhancing Sports Programmes RamJulie BhavanashiTan Sound, lights and visuals have Editor,EditorAdmin, India& Circulation And Middle East generally been extensively used [email protected]@spinworkz.com during sporting programmes such as during intervals or at the opening and closing ceremonies of games. However, there has been a different type of trend of late. During the T2 Diamond Table Tennis League JulieNatalie TanTan Chew tournament that was hosted in the state of Johor Bahru, Malaysia, AdminWriter && Circulation in July 2019, lighting effects were used when a player is welcomed [email protected]@spinworkz.com into the match. During the match, only static lighting was used, and the number of fixtures helped in creating a soft, but at the same time, bright ambience feel for each match. From the picture below Daniel Ngiam you will notice that this does not look like a typical tournament set- Daniel Ngiam MEDIA Rep for Spinworkz Pte Ltd. up but more like a concert set-up. Organisers are using technology NatalieMEDIA Rep Chew for Spinworkz Pte Ltd Tel:WriterTel: +65 8441025884410258 to further enhance the audience experience. [email protected]@spinworkz.comfi[email protected] I bring this up because of our cover story in this issue. The IAAF OUR COLLABORATORS World Athletics Championships Doha 2019 had projected track- athlete introduction which covered the entire running track, Atmaram Rawool Shankar Venugopal ART / LAYOUT ETA Daniel Ngiam entertainment lighting as well as LED athlete entrances for both ART / LAYOUT MEDIA Rep for Spinworkz Pte Ltd [email protected] track and field positions. Arguably the most impressive and talked Elissa Nadine Tel: +65 84410258 about innovation at the Championships this year was the track Web Content and Socialfi[email protected] MediaTIVE Specialist CULT projection. Creative Technology used over 100 21K and 31k laser Rosalind Tan projectors to project custom content across the entire running track Website Management Wizard – bringing it to life during the finals. PV Anthony Shankar Venugopal Server and IT Security ARTGuru / LAYOUT One particular sport that has taken full advantage of sound, light [email protected] and visuals is e-Sports. The all-encompassing ambience is created to Halim, TrueDesignLab.com drive the adrenalin of not only the competitors but the audience. HTML Design and CodingCREA MaestroTIVE CULT The above examples show a possible new revenue path for rental & To subscribe to Entertainment Technology Asia staging companies. click here: https://www.e-techasia.com/subscribe/ Thomas Richard Prakasam PUBLISHED BY Publisher / Editorial Director [email protected] 71, Bukit Batok Crescent, #06-13 Prestige Centre, Singapore 658071. Tel: (65) 6316 2716 Fax: (65) 63162715, www.spinworkz.com Disclaimer : Entertainment Technology Asia is published 12 times a year. All rights reserved. No part of this magazine is to be reproduced, whether mechanical or electronic without the prior written consent of the publisher. Views expressed in this magazine do not necessarily reflect those of the editor or the publisher. Unsolicited contributions are welcome but the editor reserves the discretion to use them. 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ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA | www.e-techasia.com 6 NEWS DECEMBER 2019 DUBAI Protec Fields Outline’s Newton Processor for Mariah Carey’s Dubai concert KLANG training in China (L-R) Tim Allison, Luca Gianni and Chris McAlesse Thanks to the logistic support of Outline’s Newton distributor for the Luca Gianni confirmed, “The Protec team is highly qualified and will UAE, Prolab LLC, Production Technology LLC (Protec) recently took definitely make the very most of the Newton, thus increasing the delivery of the first Newton in the region. company’s in the field and particularly during festivals and large-scale events.” Established by industry leader and habitual pioneer Stephen Lakin, Protec, which has branches in the UAE, KSA and UK, has been the One such event that gave Protec the opportunity of immediately cornerstone of the events industry in the Middle East since 1999 and putting the Newton through its paces was the Mariah Carey concert, is one of the largest and most reliable technical & staging solutions held on October 20 at Burj Park. One of the world’s most successful company for events in the area. Protec delivers production solutions artists in music history, with over 200 million album sales and five ranging from hi-end corporate events through to large stadium shows Grammy Awards to her credit, Carey performed as part of the across the Middle East, Africa, Asia, UK & Europe. celebrations of the One Year To Go Expo 2020 campaign. Newton Product Specialist Middle East Luca Gianni helped to organize Gianni concluded, “For a product specialist, explaining the technology a demo in the field during an event in KSA and hosted a complete and features to a team of professionals is always extremely satisfying in-depth training course exclusively dedicated to Protec technicians, and this was definitely a truly great start for a long-lasting collaboration to ensure that the new processor’s possibilities were exploited to the with one of the largest production companies in the Middle East.” utmost and the team was able to make the best possible use of its great processing capacity and versatility. newton.outline.it www.prolabllc.com Tim Allison, head of Protec’s audio department, stated that the Newton www.productiontec.com processor (to be precise a Newton 16+8 plus patch panels) would be immediately put to use on large-scale events in the UAE and KSA, and continued, “I envisage the Newton (or maybe more than one) as an integral part of all our FOH main processing racks.” ENTERTAINMENT TECHNOLOGY ASIA | www.e-techasia.com Wash light – with an Edge Get your Pix fix highend.com/solapix etcconnect.com | highend.com [email protected] 8 NEWS DECEMBER 2019 SINGAPORE Singapore Night Festival Shines Bright with Modulo Pi’s Media Servers CHIJMES Banyan Tree Specializing in large-scale projections and as the official projection audio for “Waves of Time”. The projection content was created by local partner of the 2019 Singapore Night Festival, The Electric Canvas artists, Chips and Toon, whom The Electric Canvas assisted in mapping utilized Modulo Player media servers on four different projection sites the show onto the architecture of the building, using the exclusive across the precinct. X-Map function of Modulo Player for 2D warping. The main façade of the National Museum of Singapore was the canvas In addition, the clock face of the Stamford Court building was brought for “Keep Dreaming” by French company, Spectaculaires Allumeurs to life with projection designed and delivered by The Electric Canvas, d’Images. The Electric Canvas deployed 3 x Modulo Player media in a fun mapped piece entitled, “Tropicana”. Once again, 1 x Modulo servers to deliver 10 channels of video plus two channels of audio for Player media server delivered two channels of video and two channels the installation. of audio. In the gardens of the National Museum was “The Legend of Event Production: National Heritage Board, Singapore Projection Ramanyana”, also by Spectaculaires, staged on a beautiful old Banyan Technical Design and Delivery for all sites: The Electric Canvas Tree. The narrative son et lumière featured lighting and sound, with projection by The Electric Canvas for which 1 x Modulo Player www.modulo-pi.com delivered three channels of video. On the chapel building of Chijmes, The Electric Canvas utilized 1 x Modulo Player to deliver four channels