World-wide grandMA is becoming the most specified console. This trend is no different in South Africa, where at least twelve new users have opted for the MA Lighting brand as their console of choice within the last year. In a recent review carried out in South Africa, users were asked for feedback. ...

grandMA on tour with R.E.M.

grandMA system used for Siberian theatre

grandMA helps Ex-Machina celebrate Quebec’s 400th anniversary

Fans of the family comedy "Night at the Museum" are eagerly anticipating next spring's release of the sequel "Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian" which is now in production with a grandMA and grandMA light on hand. "For the past five years the grandMA has been our primary console," repor...

grandMA says goodbye to the Olympics Games in Beijing and welcomes London as well as the Paralympics

At World Wrestling Entertainment’s (WWE) slammin’ “WrestleMania” there’s even room for grandMA. Media server programmer Peter Acken tapped one grandMA, one grandMA light, and grandMA on PC for “WrestleMania XXIV” at Orlando’s Citrus Bowl, where they were primarily used to control servers, and the “B...

grandMA attended Singapore’s National Day 2008

Recently a two day MA Lighting Training was held in the video studio of the department for media production of the Austrian technical college: St. Pölten. The studio is especially equipped for the needs of the students of media technology as well as telecommunications and media studies. For this rea...

The Producers perform with a grandMA system and Rainbow Colour Changers in Vienna

Once again Bon Jovi has taken grandMA on the road. The band’s 2006 “Have A Nice Day” tour, which was the first to carry a HD video system with it for the duration of the tour, employed a grandMA for lighting and video control. Now, Bon Jovi’s “Lost Highway” world tour is concluding with a pair of gr...

Lisbon and Madrid celebrated Rock in Rio

MA Lighting sets up a new Olympic record

MA Lighting and Element Labs join the British artists on their innovative tour

Following on the heels of the spectacular live show “Land of Fire 2008”, which was broadcasted in February, Azerbaijan took their wildly popular finalist duo, Elnur & Samir (Elnur Huseynov and Samir Javadzade) to Belgrade to compete for the top spot in the Eurovision Song Contest. In an unprecedente...

The grandMA hobnobbed with royalty at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival where it was the console of choice for programmer Demfis Fyssicopulos and lighting designer Garry “Sport” Waldie who helped headliner Prince light up the stage. The three-day annual Coachella Festival was held in Indio,...

Known as America’s National Park for the Performing Arts the Wolf Trap venue, Vienna (VA), has installed two grandMA full-size in its “Filene Center”. Wolf Trap’s typical season includes performances ranging from pop, country, folk and blues to orchestra, dance, theatre and opera as well as performa...

The TV show “Millions Poet” is a kind of Pop Idol for poets where the winner walks away with one million UAE Dirhams (about 180,000 Euro). The show held at the 2.000 seat Al Raha Theatre in Abu Dhabi began in 2006 and has been such a phenomenal success it starts the fourth season in 2008; the last s...

“Capital Inicial” is a Brazilian post-punk band that has recorded seven highly successful albums and is one of the most popular bands in the country. During the celebration of the 48^th birthday of Brazil’s capital Brasilia, they played a special concert that was also recorded for a DVD re...

From 20^th to 21^st May MA Lighting Latin America performed its third training and product presentation for operators and programmers in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “It was the most successful event we held in Brazil until the moment. The training was attended some 70 people from Brazil a...

The National Centre for the Performing Arts, formerly known as the National Grand Theater, Beijing, was recently equipped with MA Lighting technology. The Centre, an ellipsoid dome of titanium and glass surrounded by an artificial lake, seats 6,500 people in three halls and is 200,000m² in size. It ...

You probably wouldn’t think of taking your grandmother to the Ultra Music Festival, the annual outdoor concert celebration of the best in techno and electronica from around the globe, but the grandMA console was the unanimous choice of the lighting directors working the two-day spectacular. The Ultr...

Televoters from 43 countries have decided - the winner of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest with the name “Confluence of Sound” is Dima Bilan representing Russia with his song “Believe”. The spectacular Final at the Belgrade Arena consisted of entries from 25 countries. Lighting Designer Per Sundin i...

MA Lighting has released its new free software version 5.91 that upgrades any grandMA ultra-light to 2,048 parameters. No matter if it is a new or already been used grandMA ultra-light. Nevertheless the price for the grandMA ultra-light "series 1" will remain the same. With this upgrade the grandMA ...

Their screaming fans didn’t know it but the hot pop-rock band The Jonas Brothers took grandMA along on their most recent tour. The teen sensations kicked off their “Look Me In The Eyes” tour in Tucson. They will be back in the spotlight with the Burning Up summer tour, which commences July 4^th<...

Four grandMA consoles comprise the heart of lighting and video control for the new “Heart of the City” tour co-headlined by Grammy Award winners Jay-Z and Mary J Blige and playing dates across North America. 

“Flexibility and reliability are what make the grandMA control system perfect for us...

The LED-Paneel C60 is the latest addition of Schnick-Schnack-Systems’ range of LED Media Systems which is distributed worldwide by MA Lighting. The module features the latest RGB LEDs from leading manufacturer Nichia, combined with Schnick-Schnack-Systems’ unique, in-house modulation technology. Wit...

Covering an area of four floors of the Suntec City Convention Centre, SAP Asia held its annual field kick off meeting in Singapore. Concept 360, the responsible event management company based in Singapore, organised the convention with the theme of “Take it Higher”. Bringing customers, partners, top...

Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean's “Dancing on Ice: The Live Tour” is a nationwide tour in the United Kingdom following on from the successful series of Dancing on Ice which was broadcast on ITV1. The tour is presented by Andi Peters following the success of the smash-hit television series. Durham...

The Singapore Fashion Festival is one of the biggest and most important fashion events in the whole of Asia. Featuring designers, retailers, models and fashion-obsessed members of the public - the festival introduces the latest styles, trends and fashions from around the world. The event took part a...

Lighting designers Richard Profe and Alex Orkisch of TLD Planungsgruppe GmbH Stuttgart, Germany, teamed with programmer Demfis Fyssicopulos to create a cutting-edge lighting solution for the luxury Mercedes-Benz/Maybach booth at 2008 North American Int...

More than 170.000 people were recently attending for four days the 10^th edition of the Festival de Verao in Salvador, Bahia in North-East Brazil, featuring bands like Ivete Sangalo, Babado Novo, Jammil, Eagle Cherry, Margareth Menezes, Beth Carvalho, Asa de Aguia, Timbalada and many more....

There’s a grandMA behind the scenes as NBC revives “American Gladiators” for a new generation of TV viewers. The grandMA is controlling almost 600 Vari*Lite VL2500 moving lights and some 1,500 LEDs for the strength and endurance competition. The show, which originally premiered in 1989, made its mid...

At this year’s Prolight + Sound exhibition there was some very special news for visitors to MA Lighting’s booth. The renowned grandMA system was getting even bigger and more powerful. Not by just one console, but a complete new grandMA2 series including three different hardware solutions plus the gr...

Warid Telecom International is an Abu Dhabi based mobile telecommunication company  providing mobile telephone services in Bangladesh, Uganda, Georgia and Pakistan – and now also in the Congo. The company celebrated its entry into the African country with a major event. The show took place at t...

Lighting designer Scott Warner put his grandMA to work on Grammy Award-winner Queen Latifah’s nine-week Trav’lin Light tour last fall. The tour supported Queen Latifah’s new jazz CD of the same name. Warner had previously used the grandMA to control LED lighting for the Pussycat Dolls, but this was ...

MA Lighting UK has just expanded its team. Paul Young and Olivia Yan are the two new members to further develop the UK market.

As Sales and General Manager of MA Lighting UK, Paul Young has lengthy sales and technical experience. Leaving education, Paul joined James Thomas Engineering and worked i...

With the spectacular live show “Land of Fire 2008”, that was broadcasted live in several countries and on Eurovision.tv's esctv, Azerbaijan searched for its first ever Eurovision Song Contest entry. Three artists - Unformal, Aynur and Elnur - took part in the show to receive the honour to represent ...

With the introduction of grandMA2 series, MA Lighting consequently supplements and develops its successful grandMA system even further. grandMA2 comes with completely new designed hardwares supporting the grandMA software as well as all current and proposed lighting control standards.  

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The return of their idols with a famous concert at London’s O2 Arena was like a dream coming true not only for the generation who grew up with the songs of Led Zeppelin, but also for their children who discovered for themselves the expressiveness of tunes like “Kashmir”, “Stairway to Heaven”, “Black...

The show may have been called Clash of the Choirs but it was all sweet music with the grandMA controlling the lighting for the new NBC series. The show featured five music celebrities - Nick Lachey, Patti LaBelle, Blake Shelton, Michael Bolton and Kelly Rowland -who assembled amateur choirs in their...

grandMAs played a significant role in a series of eight, sold-out concerts in Kansas City featuring country music legend Garth Brooks. The concerts included a simulcast to local cinemas which later aired on cable’s Great American Country network as the 90-minute special,  "G...

Live & Loud in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, was a ten day jam-packed music extravaganza featuring a wide range of genres of over 50 artists, with more than 45 hours of live music. Joining this musical marathon were stars and bands like Shaggy, Whitney Houston, Elliott Yamin, Project Pop, Nikki, Mode, Jam...

The “Rotterdamse Schouwburg” is one of the leading theatres in the Netherlands. Every year its three halls are visited by over 200,000 guests. It has a long tradition of performing high profile national and international theatre shows. To meet modern technical demands and because of the fact, that t...

The grandMA is in control on R. Kelly’s national Double Up tour, which kicked off this fall in Columbus, Ga. and continues until January 13. Production designer Patrick Dierson, of Artfag, selected the console to control all the automated elements of the big stage show, including lighting, video and...

What started with four cellists playing Metallica songs has become one of Finnland’s most successful bands - Apocalyptica. The musicians thrill their audiences everywhere they perform with their exceptionally powerful songs - mostly their own material spiced with  additional guest artists. Righ...

MA Lighting initially made its entry into South Africa a couple of years ago. Gearhouse had spent a lengthy period of time deciding which desk would be the best way forward for them as the largest rental company in Africa. They finally decided on the grandMA. Michael Althaus, Managing Director of MA...

From November 19th till November 23rd MA Lighting Asia Pacific Pte Ltd held its first workshops in Singapore dedicated to operators, lighting designers and system integrators alike. The first three days of the workshop catered to the operators and lighting designers who wanted to get a closer look a...

The New Lyric Theatre at the Gold Reef City Casino in Johannesburg, by Richard Loring, is the new home to a grandMA full-size and four MA NSPs. This striking venue recently opened its doors to the acclaimed production of “Hairspray”. One of South Africa’s most renown lighting designers, Denis Hutchi...

Green is the commanding colour on the set of “Wicked – The Witches of Oz” in the Palladium theatre, Stuttgart, Germany. Elphaba, leading actress, and good “bad” witch of the Broadway Musical was born with this colour of skin. A fact which makes her dubious to most of her fellow men but by now fills ...

As Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band began the Magic tour, their first full-scale tour of the US and Europe since 2002-2003, grandMA was right there with them. The Magic tour kicked off in Hartford, Connecticut on Oct. 2 the same day the “Magic” album, Springsteen’s first with The E Street ban...

Every Saturday with a prime time slot the slovak TV channel TV JOJ broadcasts “Music Fever”, a journey to the greatest hits in the country’s pop history. Lighting designer Martin Kubánka uses two grandMA full-size, one MA NSP, one grandMA video media server and 24 Schnick-Schnack-Systems LED-Panels ...

After more than a year of eager anticipation the new Fiat 500 was introduced to the public.  The international press conference and the car’s official presentation to the retailers took place at PalaIsozaki in Turin. The main technical feature of the presentation was the quantity of projectors ...

Hey, one of the most famous polish rock bands recently played a concert in Warsaw’s Roma Theater. The concert was arranged by MTV in the course of their “Unplugged” shows. It was the second edition of the popular MTV series in Poland. Lighting designer and operator Pawel “Spider” Pajak reported: “We...

Once a year Adidas hold their strategy meeting - the Adidas RSOM. During the conference the company introduced its plans for 2008 to its regional sales operation marketing. This year the meeting took place in Kuala Lumpur’s convention centre. Around 700 dealers and distributors attended the event wh...

Owned and managed by the City of Dallas, the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center is home to the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and plays host to other musical ensembles/events as well as various corporate meetings, religious services and other events. Called “one of the greatest concert halls in the worl...

Similar to the British “Pop Idol” or the German “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” and their many spinoffs, “Kokhav Nolad” (A Star Is Born) is a popular casting show which searches for the most talented young singers in Israel. Starting in 2003 the program has been broadcast on the Israeli Channel 2....

The Expo Central China aims to highlight the advantages of Central China, encouraging investors at home and abroad to seek business opportunities. It was held at Zhengzhou International Convention and Exhibition Centre in the Henan Province. The Expo is jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Commerce ...

As the Latin American country of Venezuela recently crowned its new Miss Venezuela 2007 in Caracas a grandMA ultra-light and a PC with grandMA onPC together with an MA 2Port Node onPC PRO running in full tracking backup were used for the show. The console controlled a media server which triggered a ...

As the 62nd International Car Show (IAA) recently opened its doors in Frankfurt a nine month preparation and a two month setup ended for the planners of the DaimlerChrysler AG booth. The company furnished Frankfurt’s “Festhalle” (festival hall) with state-of-the-art LED technology as well as more th...

When Robert McWhir, the director for “I Love You Because”, wanted to put on this new musical premiere at the Landor Theatre he was aware that it would be challenging to find the right combination of lighting fixtures and control system that would allow moving lights, LEDs fixtures, conventionals and...

“Senses - A Rediscovery” is a full length dance production staged by eight choreographers from Singapore’s Dance Horizon Troupe. The performance creates a journey through the rediscovery of the five senses; smell, sight, taste, hearing and touch. Placed in the Arts House the show used a grandMA pico...

MA Lighting recently opened its new office and training facilities in Singapore. By doing this MA Lighting continues its strategy to be closer to the market and strengthens its position in the Asia Pacific region. In addition MA Lighting have their own competence and support centres in the UK, North...

Ranked among Fortune Global 500's largest corporations in the world the Malaysian oil and gas company Petronas recently celebrated its annual Petronas Majlis Sekalung Budi (Gala Dinner) in Kuala Lumpur’s Convention Centre. 1,800 selected guests were enjoying exclusive shows in three ballrooms. Light...

With a big ceremony the Stadion Center, a huge shopping centre in Vienna, was recently opened. grandMA consoles, five grandMA media servers, eight MA NSPs and 21 MA 2Port Nodes combined with the latest networking and LED technology form the technical basis in this ultra-modern building.

 “I...

As part of the National Day celebrations, Singapore hold an annual Fireworks Celebration. This year for the first time it took place in Marina Bay Stadium. The celebrations featured several local and foreign teams who launched some spectacular fireworks - 130 varieties were shown over two days. Ligh...

The Reggae Sumfest is the largest concert festival in Jamaica, taking place each year in Montego Bay. It started in 1992 and is officially sponsored by Red Stripe. Recently the festival celebrated its 15th anniversary with artist like LL Cool J, Mary J Blige, Shaggy, Buju Banton, Aidonia, Christophe...

The National Day Parade (NDP) on August 9 in Singapore is held in commemoration of Singapore's independence from Malaysia. It was usually placed in the Padang or Singapore National Stadium, but this year the event was held for the first time in Marina Bay Stadium with the world’s largest floating st...

A remarkable opening and closing ceremony framed the Pan American Games 2007 in Rio de Janeiro. The games are a multi-sport event, held every four years between competitors from all nations of the Americas. The German event engineering company Procon furnished the shows with a highly sophisticated M...

Making its debut in Cardiff the new musical Never Forget kicked of its UK tour. The show is based on one of the most successful groups in music history – Take That. Circling around the fictitious Take That tribute band Never Forget it offers all the hits of the real stars like “Babe”, “Could it be m...

MA Lighting recently improved its popular media server grandMA video. To make programming more comfortable and sophisticated the amount of video layers was increased to 32 layers. It’s also possible to reboot or shutdown all connected MA mediaPCs centrally from the console and to switch to the Pixel...

Following the example of Live Aid and Live 8, Live Earth was the biggest live event of all times. Artist like the Beastie Boys, Genesis, Madonna, The Police, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, UB40, Linkin Park, Katie Melua, Foo Fighters, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sheryl Crow, Bon Jovi, Lenny Kravitz or...

Circus World is a Slovak touring non-traditional music and dance show reflecting modern music, dances and interpretations of folklore. One grandMA full-size, one grandMA video media server and twelve MA Digital Touring Dimmer racks are used to light the show.

“The project is really sophisticated ...

It was one huge commemoration. More than 60,000 people celebrated at Wembley Stadium the life of Diana, Princess of Wales. Around 15 million people watched the Concert for Diana in the UK - over 500 million in 140 countries worldwide. Artists like Elton John, Duran Duran, James Morrison, Nelly Furta...

The ZZ Top “Hollywood Blues Tour 2007” is using a grandMA and grandMA light to control lighting and video displayed on a big, soft LED drape onstage. The celebrated Texas band began their tour in March, will be joined by The Pretenders and The Stray Cats for the summer and then continue solo through...

The Barbican Concert Hall, a 2,000 seat concert hall which belongs to the Barbican Arts Centre in London was recently equipped with one grandMA full-size, two MA NSPs and one MA mediaPC with the software grandMA video installed.

“With the MA system we got the flexibility we need. We have large r...

In early 2007 Aerosmith announced their 2007 World Tour, their first tour that included dates outside North America or Japan in nearly a decade. This current tour led the band recently to Dubai. Production Technology LLC (Protec), a Dubai based rental company furnished and installed the show that wa...

The grandMA meets an icon in the new world of Coca-Cola, the $100 million Coke museum which opened at a new site in Atlanta and is expected to draw about 1.2 million visitors in its first year. The grandMA provides lighting control for a 30-foot tall replica of Coke’s famous contour bottle which is ...

When fans of country music got together at th