grandMA2 celebrate with Guus Meeuwis

Marina Bay Sands opened with a huge ceremony

MA Lighting system used for World Cup 2010 Closing Ceremony

“Concert of Light” and grandMA enchant Jerusalem

grandMA joins 2010 FIFA World Cup on TV

grandMA2 Road Show tours Germany

MA Lighting succeeds at the Expo 2010 in Shanghai

Lighting for the current UK touring version of cult classic musical The Rocky Horror Show has been transferred to grandMA for control, with the tour, produced by the Ambassadors Theatre Group, carrying a grandMA light with an grandMA ultra-light for backup and 2 x MA NSP (Network Signal Processors),...

grandMA2 for Albany Theatre

The Fugard Theatre counts on grandMA2

Upgrade and training for RCTI

grandMA2 performs at Shanghai’s Expo 2010 Opening Ceremony

Lighting and video content for multiple LED surfaces at the 2010 Miss Universe Slovakia beauty pageant, staged in the SIBAMAC Arena, Bratislava, was controlled by 2 x grandMA full-size consoles, 6 x video stations with the MA VPU software (Video Processing Unit) and 6 x MA NSPs (Network Processing U...

A grandMA2 full-size, a grandMA2 light and an MA NPU (Network Processing Unit) are on tour with the 2010 X-Factor Live arena show, which have been specified and are operated and owned by Lighting Designer Neil Trenell.

Trenell was asked to create a lighting and video design by the show's...

grandMA went with Skywards Dubai International Jazz Festival

An MA Lighting grandMA2 light console and three MA NPUs (Network Processing Units) are being used to control 18 universes of DMX running all the lighting and a Catalyst media server for the 2010 "Strictly Come Dancing Live" UK arena tour. The tour's lighting has been des...

Product presentation and trainings held

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Glen Johnson of i-Lite Ltd, Set and Lighting Designer for the current Will Young's “Greatest Hits” UK and Irish tour, is using 2 x grandMA2 light consoles to run the show's lighting. The two are networked together, with the first used as the main console, and the second running in...

grandMA2 dined with Mubadala

The prestigious University of Johannesburg Theatre has invested in a new grandMA ultra-light console as part of a major lighting upgrade. The 436 seater theatre at Kingsway Campus, Auckland Park is part of the UJ Arts Centre, and hosts a busy and varied production schedule fea...

Some 50 participants recently attended MA Lighting Latin America’s next grandMA2 open house in São Paulo. On display were grandMA2 light and grandMA2 ultra-light consoles. Next to product presentations a comprehensive training wa...

One of the biggest rental companies in Poland ”Transcolor” has extended its equipment inventory to include grandMA2 full-size consoles. It was a logical 'next step' for them with grandMA series equipment, having previously used the grandMA full-size ‘series 1’.

Miss World 2009 saw another spectacular lighting design by Tim Dunn, who used a grandMA full-size console to control nearly 300 intelligent light fixtures, plus LED and generic lighting, altogether totalling 12,600 DMX channels across 24 active universes. He also triggered video c...

“Die Drei ???” (The Three Investigators) are touring with a full grandMA2 system

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grandMA welcomed Beyoncé Jamiroquai, Kings of Leon and Aerosmith in Abu Dhabi

Lighting Designer Mike Baldassari and Programmer/Operator Dave Sadler used a grandMA full-size console to run lights for the filming of 13 dynamically different musical numbers that will feature in the new Rob Marshall movie, “Nine”. These sections were recorded during a three and...

grandMA celebrates PartyGuide’s 10th birthday

Molpass s.r.l., MA Lighting’s Italian distributor, invites you to grandMA2 presentations, which will take place on the following dates:

Bologna: 27 January 10am – 5pm

Rome: 10 February 10am – 5pm

Milan

Lighting Designer Tim Routledge used his new grandMA2 light console to control lighting for UK rockers' The Stereophonics' high profile 'homecoming' gig at Cardiff Castle last month. The event - which saw the 10,000 tickets pegged at 1998 prices, the...

The new musical production “Play Me” opened its doors for the first time in September at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki, Finland, for which Lighting Designer, Mikki Kunttu specified a grandMA full-size to run the lighting. Kunttu also programmed the show and designed the set and...

grandMA used for DVD shoot of Victor & Leo

grandMA opens Chinese 11th National Games

Opera House chose MA Lighting

The Market Theatre trusts in grandMA2

grandMA at T20 Champions League Opening Ceremony

Sunrise Festival uses MA VPU

publitec purchases 16 MA VPU plus units

Since the 2^nd November Riku Mikael Kauppinen (37) is working as MA Lighting’s Regional Sales Manager for the Russian, Eastern European and Scandinavian market. MA’s Managing Director Michael Althaus welcomed Kauppinen on board and is looking forward to a great teamwork....

Daimler AG relied on grandMA for IAA 2009

grandMA2 celebrates Singapore

Rent All Show based in Guarujá, State of Sao Paulo recently bought the first grandMA2 in Brazil. The owner of the company, Pancho, decided on a grandMA2 light.

Pancho explained: “We chose the grandMA2 f...

Mamma Mia tours Spain with MA Lighting

Joburg Theatre choose grandMA2

Carmen performed in Tokio and Nagoya with grandMA

Lighting Designer Max Conwell of Naked Eye used a grandMA full-size and a grandMA2 light as backup to control lighting for leading UK singer-songwriter Morrissey's "Tour of Refusal", which concluded stylishly with three sold-out shows at London's Brixton Academy. ...

When “Yanni Voices” began its 51-city tour of the US and Canada last spring a pair of grandMA2 full-size went along to program video and lighting for the visually-compelling live concert series. An internationally known recording artist, Yanni was accompanied by a global array of ...

Young Frankenstein is the musical version of the book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, with music and lyrics by Brooks. It is based on the 1974 comedy film of the same name written by Brooks and Gene Wilder and directed by Brooks.

It is a parody of the h...

The third grandMA2 introduction training session within the past two months was hosted at DWR Distribution in Strijdom Park, Johannesburg. The courses have become one of DWR’s greatest selling tools as once an individual understands what the grandMA2 is capable of and how simple i...

The current Tracy Chapman tour lightshow has been re-programmed on to the new grandMA2 platform for its European and US legs. The show - which has been out since last year and is reaching its final stages - is designed by UK-based Paul Normandale. It was originally programmed onto...

Bandra Worli Sea Link opened with grandMA

UK-based Lighting Designer and Programmer Neil Trenell of M Squared Designs has invested in his own grandMA2 full size console. He's most recently used it on the month long iTunes Festival at London's Roundhouse, an event featuring 62 shows in a month and an impressive line up inc...

MA Video Processing Unit

grandMA2 performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Vortex Lighting, a busy rental house based in the north-east of England, has invested in its first MA2 console. This follows on after several years of hard work - and  satisfaction - from its grandMA ‘series 1’ products.

Vortex's Graeme Sewell bought the grandMA2 light because he wanted to upg...

Gearhouse South Africa supplied full technical production for the Closing Ceremony of the 2009 FIFA Confederation Cup at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg. The spectacular show took place ahead of the Brazil vs USA final, with 53,000 fans watching in the stadium, joined by several million viewers o...

New technology, a new look, achieving the best results and with many plans for the future, The Austria Center Vienna (ACV) is on a steady and very successful expansion path. Austria’s biggest conference centre is primarily used for international congresses, fairs and proms. In terms of facilities, a...

U2 are touring the globe with grandMA

“German Pop Idol” relied again on MA Lighting

Take That, the UK's favourite 'boyband', hit the road this summer on their massive "Circus" stadium tour, with a spectacular lighting rig designed by Patrick Woodroffe and a stage set created by Es Devlin, Take That and the tour's artistic director, Kim Gavin. The stature of the tour - produced by T...

“Monty Python’s Spamalot” is realised with grandMA

For his recent DVD shoot, popular Brazilian singer Leonardo was lit with a design created by Danny Nolan. The show in the Credicard Hall in Sao Paulo, Brazil was controlled by 1 x grandMA full-size, 1 x grandMA light as well as 3 x media PC´s with grandMA video software and 1 x MA NSP (Network Signa...

“We will rock you” and grandMA are on tour

Show Technology, MA Lighting’s Australian distributor, recently took the grandMA2 on a Australian tour with special launches held in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. Over 300 industry professionals came to see the new grandMA2.

”We’re particularly excited by the new grandMA2 in Australia as ...

When Kaohsiung, the second largest town in Taiwan, won the hosting of the World Games 2009, nobody yet knew about the scale of this project. Works started immediately and two years later, in January 2009, the first tests were conducted to open the new Kaohsiung Stadium.

Once testing was completed,...

A grandMA full-size console was used to programme the new UK tour of Never Forget The Musical, a hugely popular show featuring the music of UK pop supergroup Take That, produced by Tristan Baker, Charlie Parsons, Bronia Buchanan and Jason Haigh-Ellery.

The lighting design has been created by James ...

A grandMA full-size is controlling moving lights and LED elements for the latest musical sensation to hit London's West End "Sister Act", a new musical comedy based on the smash hit musical starring Whoopi Goldberg. The show, produced by Stage Entertainment and Whoopi Goldberg, has just opened at th...

Festival de Verão celebrated with grandMA

grandMA2 road tested with Maximo Park

Lighting Designer Liz Berry is using a grandMA full-size to control lighting on the current Sisters of Mercy European tour. The maverick UK alternative rockers are back on the road again, continuing an impressive live performance career spanning nearly 30 years, with lead singer Andrew Eldritch and ...

The first grandMA2 full-size to be sold into Latin America was recently delivered to the Dominican Republic. Edwin Belliard Madera and Alberto Belliard Madera, owners of the rental company BM Eventos in Santiago, bought the console. They had already decided to take the MA Lighting route, and the com...

Eurovision Song Contest 2009

When NBC’s “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” debuted in the changing landscape of late night television grandMA was close at hand. Lighting Designer Christopher Landy, who heads Brooklyn’s Vibrant Design LLC, specified the console to control an large complement of moving and conventional lights which g...

Lighting Designer Steven Douglas is using grandMA lighting control for the first time on the current Killers “Day & Age” world tour, which has just completed it’s first US, UK and European legs. He had two grandMA full-size consoles – one in tracking backup – and four MA NSPs running over Ethernet, ...

The spectacular new musical production of Oscar winning Australian movie “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of The Desert” hits London’s West end in style and gorgeousness at the Palace Theatre, together with a grandMA full-size console controlling the moving light rig.

The show’s lighting design ...

grandMA used for the return of “Hair” to Broadway

Cirque de Glace goes with grandMA

The ‘musical’ version of the iconic TV cartoon show SpongeBob SquarePants is touring UK theatres, bringing a lively Technicolor show designed by David Gallo with equally funky, eye-catching lighting designed by Richard G. Jones - all controlled by a grandMA light console.

The UK tour, produced by F...

grandMA supports Dubai’s International Poetry Festival

grandMA2 system finds home in the KKL Luzern

The UK tour of Strictly Come Dancing Live – the arena version of the hugely popular BBC TV series  - has all its lighting controlled by a grandMA full-size console for the first time.

The lighting design is by Mark Kenyon (also for the TV show) and the show was initially programmed by David Bi...

Two grandMA full size consoles and four MA NSPs were specified by Lighting Designer Steve Nolan for the BBC’s “Let’s Dance For Comic Relief” live TV shows – the first time grandMA has been used on a fully live BBC entertainment show. The four shows were all shot in Studio 2 at Ealing Studios, West L...

Chingay Parade Singapore relies on MA Ligthing technology

grandMA2 celebrates its Austrian premiere in Vienna’s famous “Burgtheater”

Tina Turner hits the road with grandMA

AVO Session realised with grandMA

Lighting Designer Scott Warner is putting the grandMA through its paces on the Pussycat Dolls’ world tour, which is now playing dates in the UK and Europe. The girl pop band’s tour follows the release of their album “Doll Domination” last year. Warner, who is the Lighting Designer, Director and Prog...

grandMA joins Mercedes Benz in Detroit

grandMA full-size continues to be the lighting console of choice for most current major UK ice skating productions, including Lunchbox Productions' popular “Cinderella On Ice" tour, starring the Imperial Ice Stars. The console was specified by Sydney-based Lighting Designer Gavan Swift when the tour...

A grandMA full-size lighting console is in action on “Monkey Journey To The West”, Damon Albarn and Gorillaz partner Jamie Hewlett’s innovative new performance work fusing the acrobatic daring and precision of Chinese opera and circus with animated video cartoons, music and live performance. The sho...

MA Lighting is very pleased to appoint Philip Norfolk as Sales Director of MA Lighting UK with immediate effect. During his many years of experience in the entertainment lighting industry, Norfolk has worked with some of the best technology suppliers in the professional market. “Phil is a perfect ma...

Cape Town’s Baxter Theatre Centre purchases a grandMA2

grandMA used for the fifth time for Celebrity Big Brother

UK Lighting Designer Tom Lesh used a grandMA full-size console for the first time on a recent UK tour by Indie pop band The Feeling. Lesh had “wanted to get my head around the desk properly” since he used grandMA for the Chemical Brothers’ phenomenally successful “We Are The Night” tour that ran thr...

grandMA attends Metallica’s “Death Magnetic” tour

MA Lighting announces software release 6.0

Disney’s musical, Beauty and the Beast, produced in South Africa by Pieter Toerien and Hazel Feldman, played to its first South African audience on 2^nd October 2008 at the Montecasino Teatro Theatre in Fourways. The production made use of a grandMA full-size console.

Richard Knight, the...

Lighting Designer Tim Dunn created one of the most visually exciting Miss World pageants to date, which was staged at the Sandton International Convention Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. He used a grandMA full-size lighting console to control all fixtures, including 230 intelligent luminaires,...

Rock legends AC/DC are electrifying sell-out crowds on their first tour in eight years, and grandMA is plugged into the excitement. The band’s long-awaited Black Ice World Tour comes on the heels of its “Black Ice” album for Columbia Records and takes as its theme the first track, Rock ’n’ Roll Trai...

grandMA joins lavish opening ceremony

grandMA meets Luis Miguel

MA Lighting offers up to 20% discount on all smaller grandMA 'series 1' consoles

grandMA is in control at Berlin’s famous Friedrichstadtpalast

MA Lighting system solution controls Westfield

grandMA accompanies Elton John’s UK Tour

Status Quo keeps on rocking with grandMA

grandMA joins Barack Obama’s victory speech

Recently equipped with a high quality dimMA dimming and grandMA control system, the renown Victoria Theatre in Singapore becomes an up-to-date theatre venue.

The National Arts Council decided to approach the renovation in phases and to do a replacement of the existing dimming system in the first ph...

MA Lighting recently held a training week for its worldwide distributors. With weeks flying by before the final launch of grandMA2, the objective of the training session at MA Lighting’s Headquarters in Paderborn was “Prepare 2 Launch”. Thirty-two part...

A maverick meld of old and new – Madonna’s Sticky & Sweet Tour, rolling across Europe and The Americas fall and winter 2008, depends upon MA Lighting’s grandMA lighting system to fill the dish for a dazzling display. 

“Also used on Madonna’s last tour, grandMA is our board of choice,” reflect...

The long-awaited road show “Randy Jackson Presents America’s Best Dance Crew Live”, based on the much-acclaimed MTV series, clearly gets its kicks being run entirely on a grandMA full-size. The theatre-to-theatre U.S. tour will feature a total of five dance crews culled from the first and second sea...

Celine Dion tours with grandMA

Slovak TV show “Cat Girl” relied on grandMA

“Alvaro’s Balcony” acts out with grandMA

New Q5 presented with grandMA in Switzlerland

Just as the Republic Polytechnic in Singapore is committed to education, so is MA Lighting. Roughly one year after the completion of a full MA Lighting system installation, MA went back to the Republic Polytechnic to do a refresher course. Initially br...

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...

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.  

L...

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 the CMA Music Festival in Nashville (formerly known as Fan Fair), grandMA was center stage. Lighting/production designer Mike Swinford used five grandMA consoles and three grandMA video servers to cover the concert portion of the four-day celebration. The C...

The idea behind the v-Base yoke (16 bit resolution) of Brother, Brother & Sons is to motorize a series of high power projectors (10 – 20,000 ANSI Lumen). The v-Base construction is very rigid to ensure repeatability and accuracy. The control of pan (410°), tilt (280°) motorized zoom and focus is don...

Brother, Brother & Sons has developed the EvenLED as a modular panel of 16 high power 6 watt RGB LEDs spaced evenly behind a standard rear-projection screen, which creates an even light field over the entire surface. Driven by the built in controller “EvenControl” a 16 bit resolution for each colour...

With a huge multimedia show the Polish town Plock recently celebrated the “Verva Festival 2007” on the banks of the river Vistula. “For the complex setup that was spread over a long distance, the grandMA control system proved to be an invaluable tool. Its huge pre-programming abilities saved a lot o...

The LED-Paneel by Schnick-Schnick-Systems is a plug-and-play LED luminaire which measures 100cm x 100cm x 7cm (width x height x depth) or 20 x 20 Nichia RGB-LEDs. It is a new multimedia ready LED fixture for both backlight use and video element implementation.  Used as a backlight it needs only...

The 1st of July 2007 marks a new era in the history of MA Lighting. With the opening of its latest office – MA Lighting Asia Pacific – MA brought a new level of focus and accessibility to the market. Next to their specialised distribution network, MA is now offering additional support and service vi...

When Elton John performed his gig on the horse racetrack in Iffezheim (Germany) during his current European Tour 13,000 present fans enjoyed a selection of 23 Top-40 hits, 15 Top-10 singles and five No. 1 hits. Furthermore the artist played songs from his new CD “The Captain & The Kid”, the 44th alb...

The history of Genesis reaches back into the Sixties. With its progressive rock the band was a forerunner for many artists to follow. Hits like “Watcher of the Skies”, “Follow you, follow me”, “Mama”, “Land of Confusion” or “No Son of Mine” won them many fans worldwide over the last decades. After P...

Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland, better known as The Police, are on tour again – after 24 long years. As a result of their reunion the three artists are performing worldwide gigs, over 1,770,000 tickets have been sold to date. Lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe and associated lighting des...

When thousands of people sing out loud the name of the German town “Bochum” you know, that you’re at a Herbert Grönemeyer concert. With legendary songs like “Bochum” and “Männer” (Men) as well as many titles of his new album “Zwölf” (Twelve) the German star is touring Germany – from May to June, fro...

On 19th June 2007 the gates to Middle Earth will open in London when “The Lord of the Rings” - the stage version of JRR Tolkien’s classic trilogy which played to great acclaim in Toronto - will officially open at Theatre Royal Drury Lane. The journey into the realm of Tolkien’s fantasy is, at £12.5 ...

MA Lighting’s distributor for India, Reynold's Sound & Lighting Services, recently held training in Bangalore, for the sophisticated and powerful consoles from Germany. The 30 attendees were lighting designers, rental companies, system integrators, theatre personnel, consultants and specifiers from ...

A pair of grandMA consoles is accompanying Beyonce on her world tour, which kicked off in Tokyo and excited Australia before commencing its European leg. With the tour described as a cross between a theatrical play and a rock ’n roll show, the grandMAs control an extensive array of media servers and...

The Hartwall Arena, Finland's largest ice hockey arena, was chosen to host the biggest live TV-show in Europe - the Eurovision Song Contest 2007. A record number of 42 countries participated in Helsinki. Lighting and screen designer Mikki Kunttu presented to the estimated 100 million viewers on TV a...

A glittering ceremony marked the opening of the first phase of the $1.5 billion Bahrain Financial Harbour (BFH) in Manama at the beginning of May. An invited audience of 350 high-profile guests including the Prime Minister Shaik Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa watched as displays of fireworks, lasers ...

MA Lighting officially opened its new UK office and training facilities in London with a special reception for lighting professionals, clients and the press. With this new office MA Lighting continues its strategy to be closer to the market and strengthens its position in the UK. Therewith MA Lighti...

Simultaneously with the opening of the MA Lighting office in London Simon Barrett (25) has joined the MA UK team on 1st of May.  Barrett is supporting the technical sales team with Richard Lambert as technical director and looking after administration, workshop logistics as well as exhibitions....

It was the seventh motto show of the fourth season of “Deutschland sucht den Superstar” (DSDS) (the German Pop Idol) and it was totally dedicated to the 70’s. While the candidates were performing songs from that period, everything technical happening on, behind and above the stage was light-years in...

It’s rodeo time in Texas, and the grandMA made its debut at the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo where two consoles were used to control the main and perimeter lighting rigs for star turns by leading performers. The Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo, held February 27 till March 18 at Reliant Park, has be...

Extraordinary singer Josh Groban began his 29-city North American concert tour with the grandMA in tow for lighting control. Groban’s tour was in support of his latest studio album, “Awake,” on Reprise. His two previous studio CDs have been certified five times platinum with the most recent, “Closer...

From Westend to Broadway...

Organised by the Bahrain Economic Development Board, the “Spring of Culture” gathered a wide variety of artists and performers together in a number of venues around the kingdom. In front of the historic Arad Fort an amphitheatre was constructed for the major concert performances. Bahrain production ...

GaCo is one of the oldest sound, light and stage rental companies in Latvia. Recently it celebrated its 10th anniversary. For the birthday show with 150 guests, lighting designer Maris Meness used one grandMA light, grandMA video and three MA mediaPC servers.

The main idea of the event was to br...

Two grandMA lighting consoles are accompanying “My Chemical Romance” on the alternative rock band’s The Black Parade world tour, which commenced February 22 in Manchester, New Hampshire. Celebrating the band’s alter ego and third studio album, The Black Parade tour has scheduled dates throughout the...

Back for the third year, the “Mosaic Music Festival” was presented by Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore. The festival offered a wide diversity of jazz, world music, soul, electroclash, hip-hop and more with international artists, established home-grown and regional artists and up-and-coming...

MA Lighting has expanded its grandMA range with a new member - the grandMA pico. The new console is specifically designed for the use in theatres. Thereby the grandMA pico is similar to the grandMA micro. The hardware of the new console however has been optimised for the needs of theatres. Similar t...

Three grandMA full-size, one grandMA light, three MA mediaPCs with grandMA video and two NSPs were on the equipment list for the ‘Deutsche Bank S. p. A.’ convention in Turin, Italy. Lighting designer Giovanni Pinna, who also worked as set designer and operator, had chosen MA technology for this even...

“It’s really a pleasure to use the grandMA.” Lighting designer Bertil Mark, who operates the lighting console during the current Juli “Ein neuer Tag” (A new day) tour glances at his grandMA full-size. “It’s the first time that I use a grandMA on a tour. Regardless I learned the operation quickly. Th...

Wicked, the hit musical about the witches of Oz, returned to Los Angeles February 21st for an open run with three grandMAs and one grandMA light controlling lighting and video projections. Wicked previously played in LA during the summer of 2005; the new production, featuring some new staging, calls...

South Africa’s Sun City sparkled with beauty during the Miss South Africa and Miss South Africa Teen show.  Kabelo, Unathi, The Bala Brothers, Hi 5 and Brandon October added some musical extravaganza to the event. Lighting designer Tim Dunn used two grandMA full-size, one grandMA light, two NSP...

At first the questions are easy, but then they start to become more difficult. German emcee Jörg Pilawa recently invited to his “Star Quiz” where celebrities have a hard nut to crack. Not only do the questions become more challenging at every level, every new show demands more ambitious technology. ...

Inspired by the “merge” of the light- and video worlds, MA presents some new products which are extremely useful for Theatres and Musicals, TV/studios, concert touring, corporate events and architectural lighting. Especially in combination with the MA media server, grandMA video, they offer powerful...

A complement of grandMA consoles controlled a dazzling array of fixtures employed by lighting directors Patrick Dierson and Kevin Lawson of Artfag, LLC at two pre-Super Bowl concerts. grandMAs also controlled lighting by Artfag lighting & video directors Richard Wold and Pat Brannon for a pre-game N...

The Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has recently installed a dimMA system into their Concert Hall. This is one of the largest theatrical dimMA installations worldwide. Show Technology Australia, who realised the project, opened an office in Brisbane to assure local support.

The installat...

After being famous for 18 year the Argentinean Tango X2 Company of Miguel Angel Zotto presents its moving history with a spectacular show. Piece by piece it traces back the most important choreographical moments of the past shows. Recently Tango X2, which features a world class cast of two singers, ...

One grandMA light accompanied Ronan Keating during his tour in South Africa. When playing his New Year’s Eve concert at the 15,000 capacity  Coca Cola dome in Johannesburg,  Lighting director Pryderi Baskerville relied on the powerful performance abilities of grandMA video and one grandMA ...

Between 1962 and 1997 the Thessaloniki Song Contest took place every year. Now it’s back again. ERT, the Greek television channel, re-awoke the show. Recently ten finalists fought live in the Paok Sports Arena for victory. The extraordinary event was designed by Manfred “Ollie” Olma who used two gra...

For the first time in 12 years and for only the third time ever, the UAE hosted the Gulf Cup. The 18th Arabian Gulf Cup is no small kickabout. While billions across the planet watched the World Cup last summer, the regional tournaments often stand cold in its shadow, but like the European Championsh...

A pair of grandMA consoles is controlling lighting and video for the national tour of “High School Musical: The Concert” which is now touring major US cities.  Loosely based on the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel Original Movie, “High School Musical,” the show includes songs from the tweenage...

Staged in Agrykola Park near Ujazdowski Palace, the mini-festival “Warsaw is trendy” was to demonstrate the richness of the city's culture. During this event the popular polish artist “Kayanis” performed with his musicians from the Music Academy Gdansk and the choir of the University of Gdansk. In t...

As the alternative rock band “Tool” continues its multicontinent tour it has added two grandMA full-size, one for lighting control and one for video control, to its US and European venues and to gigs in Australia this month. The equipment complement is expected to remain the same when Tool returns t...

A pair of grandMAs is helping lighting designer Daniel Boland dazzle audiences nationwide with Blue Man Group’s “How to Be a Megastar Tour 2.0.”  The innovative performers are playing arena-sized venues and select theaters coast to coast with the production in which they download a tongue-in-ch...

The party was gigantic. Five Cities - New York, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Berlin and Rio de Janeiro – took part in the Nokia New Year’s Eve. All over the world music fans were celebrating the countdown to 2007. An estimated 1.3 million people attended the live shows and 150 million watched the event on TV ...

grandMA played a key role in the lighting of the DVD shoot for Amy Grant marking the release of her new CD. The production was shot over two nights in full concert mode at Bass Hall in Fort Worth, Texas.

The goal of lighting the DVD was to provide an upbeat, theatrical, yet calm atmosphere to the l...

American Idol champ and Nashville recording artist Carrie Underwood, touring in support of her album “Some Hearts,” is traveling light as she crosses the country with the grandMA light console. Underwood’s album has sold more than four million copies since its release; her national tour is focusing ...

Stonex SA, MA Lightings distributor in Spain, continued its workshop tour through Spain and held another successful workshop in Granada. 30 operators, lighting designers and associates from rental and theatre companies joined the training in the Centro de estudios escenicos de la junta de Andalucia....

Fireworks lit the sky, a gigantic video-wall displayed a fantastic travel through space and  time. To describe the 15th Asian Games Opening Ceremony at Khalifa Stadium Doha, Qatar, you have to use superlatives. With a budget of over 190 million dollar the ceremony was more then three times as e...

With a huge ceremony the Asian Games torch was welcomed in Al Jazira Stadium Abu Dhabi, UAE. The town was another station on the 50,000 kilometre long journey of the flame. For lighting the official part of the ceremony the multimedia show operator and programmer Pawel “Spider” Pajak used a grandMA ...

Two grandMA full-size consoles and two grandMA light are used in the production “Love”, a co-production of Cirque du Soleil and Apple Corps Ltd. celebrating the musical legacy of The Beatles.  Lighting Designer Yves Aucoin, assisted by Karl Gaudreau and Robert Brassard, employed an extensive nu...

grandMA consoles were featured in two back-to-back high-profile live broadcasts from New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall: the MTV Video Music Awards 2006 (VMA) and Fashion Rocks, a music and fashion extravaganza on CBS that kicked off the city's semi-annual Fashion Week.  Scharff Weisbe...

The musical Fame was recently shown on the Faroer Islands. In the Nordic House the audience could follow the actors on their ride through triumph, heartache and romance. Programmer and operator was Gardar Hall of LimeLite, who used one grandMA full-size and three MA Digital Dimmer racks for the show...

Once more the Pepsi Music Festival took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Beside numerous artist like Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Ziggy Marley, Gustavo Cerati, Massacre, Catupecu Machu, Los Auténticos Decadentes and Rata Blanca,  Pepsi Music 2006 presented more than 200 bands and artists in eleven ...

Touring only big halls, with 21 concerts, and 250,000 tickets sold – the PUR Tour “Es ist wie es ist” (It is like it is) announced the return of the German band after a break. Two concerts, including the official dress rehearsal, in the Gerry Weber Stadion, Halle/Westfallen, marked the start of the ...

The MA 2Port Node supplements MA Lighting’s product range for networking and integrated system solutions.

The MA 2Port Nodes will be available in two different versions for DMX distribution in fixed installations: One that will fit into a 80 mm ‘Flush-mounted’ box (European version) while the ‘US v...

The MA 2Port Node onPC is the latest member of the grandMA family and supplements MA Lighting’s product range for networking and integrated system solutions.

They address amongst others the need of theatres and rental companies to flexibly distribute DMX on stage or in rigs. If used standalone wit...

Lighting director/programmer Graeme Nicol has parlayed his many years experience using the grandMA to employing the console on Shakira’s Oral Fixation tour now wrapping up the year in the singer’s native Colombia, Chile and Argentina. 

“I find you never stop learning on the grandMA,” says Nic...

“Happiness is easy” was the name used by the Polish Band Myslovitz for their tour during which they visited the seven biggest cities of their home country. Happy also described lighting designer Pawel “Spider” Pajak - he had access to some of the finest material on the market. One grandMA full-size,...

For the first time all Portuguese-speaking countries came together for a sporting event – the “Lusofonia Games”. The games were held in Macau, a special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China. With an impressive opening ceremony in the Macau Stadium, Beijing based lighting director ...

In Istanbul, the 2010 Worlds Cultural Capital, was created a unique show for the 83rd Republic Day Celebrations which used the Bosphorus Strait as the background canvas. Strategically placed on the Bosphorus Bridge 40 Space Cannons 8kW Xenon sky tracers lit the sky together with Space Cannons placed...

2006 marks the hundredth anniversary of the late Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen´s. As a main event and closing ceremony of the worldwide “Ibsen year”, “Peer Gynt” was performed in Giza beside the Sphinx. For lighting control AVAB/CAC Norway who supported the project, used one grandMA full-size, o...

As The Who begins its world tour with rave reviews and a packed calendar of gigs in the US, the grandMA begins its work behind the scenes controlling innovative lighting design that puts the group in the forefront of artists performing today. The tour, which has been dubbed “Uncut. Uncensored. Unrep...

After getting famous in the Eighties “Duran Duran” are back! In the second half of September they performed a gig in Warsaw, Poland. Lighting Designer, operator and programmer for the concert was Pawel “Spider” Pajak. To control his rig he specified one grandMA full-size, one grandMA light, grandMA ...

The Abha festival, Abha is the capital of Asir province in Saudi Arabia, takes place every year in July and August and is always a feast for the eyes. For the event lighting designer Pawel “Spider” Pajak, created a multi media show which was shown every evening for one month. To meet the demanding t...

NAN Som e Ilumincao Lda, MA Lightings distributor in Portugal, held its third grandMA workshop in Ovar with great success. Since the company started distributing MA Lighting technology last year they are able to look back on a very successful time.

All in all 52 lighting designers, technicians, te...

The tour is called “Global Express” and a global experience it is. Jay-Z performs one gig after another, always on a stage, that you can describe as plain, open, empty. Everything is reduced to a minimum. To fill the visual void lighting designer Gary Westcott and his associate Matthew Button, who a...

Madre Deus music combines Fado, a music genre which is characterized by mournful tunes and lyrics often about the sea or the life of the poor, with modern folk. The Portuguese band, with her charismatic singer Teresa Salgueiro, is not only popular in Portugal - since they performed the soundtrack fo...

For the first time, Nokia Trends, a music, mobility and multimedia art festival, took place in Italy. The show, which featured artists such as Gotan Project, Tiga and Timo Maas, was held in the former Stazione Leopolda, in Florence. It’s a railway station which was transformed into an atmospheric ar...

Built to praise God, Megachurches are becoming more popular in many regions of the world. Two of them, the City Harvest Church and the Grace Assembly Church, in Singapore are extraordinary examples of these outstanding buildings. To also have outstanding lighting, the two churches rely on MA technol...

With an innovative concept of live reporting the German Football League TV-channel “arena” started broadcasting. The mobile studio, which resembles a football, stands every weekend in front of yet another stadium. Moderator Oliver Welke presents the match live from all the different locations. To ac...

The grandMA has hit the road with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers as the band celebrates its 30th anniversary with the national Highway Companion Tour.  A pair of grandMA consoles, supplied by Ed & Ted, are currently in use on the third leg of the tour, which runs through the end of October. ...

Built in 1923 “Teatro Rivoli” is the most important theatre in Oporto, Portugal’s second biggest city. The building, which is property of the local government, still has the charm of the last century, but the  equipment is ultra-modern. For lighting the theatre is equipped with 250 dimmer chann...

”1 vs 100” is a new gameshow on BBC1 where one person, “The One”,  chosen out of 101 hopeful contestants  competes against the remaining 100 for a chance to win up to £250,000.00. The player's goal is to eliminate the opposition by correctly answering questions, hoping that their opponents...

The classical Sondheim musical “Follies” has returned to the London stage with Robert McWhir’s critically acclaimed production at the Landor Theatre in North Clapham. For those who know the show, or the Landor, it will come as a surprise that this has occurred at all, never mind, the rave success ge...

Bon Jovi’s “Have A Nice Day” tour may have ended but the grandMA,  which controlled all the low-resolution and HD video and all the lighting effects, is still getting kudos.  “I couldn’t imagine pulling off the tour with any other console,” says programmer Patrick Brannon.  “I’ve been...

Pretty “cool” is the right word.  3,500 blocs of ice with an overall weight of 320 tons were used for the worlds largest Ice-Bar (300 square metres) in Schüttorf, Germany. The discotheque “Index” offers its visitors a frosty world of light and ice. Nearly everything from furniture to walls is m...

An audience of 45,000 people were present in London’s Hyde Park to see this year’s Last Night of the Proms. The lighting for this show was once again designed by Tony Hall who points out: “There were eight very full universes of DMX, without the generic channels. The grandMA was an obvious choice, s...

On the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Stadium Arcadium Tour a pair of grandMAs has a key role in a show acclaimed as “a constantly mutating technological wonder” and “the grandest dazzler” by The Orange County Register.  Playing to packed houses from coast to coast, the Tour follows the number-one debu...

The Norwegian band “a-ha” performed their only concert in Germany this year on the occasion of the Sommergarten Open Air in Berlin. It took place at the beginning  of the IFA 2006, the World’s largest Consumer Electronic trade fair, on August 31st. Lighting Designer Jojo Tillman relied on the p...

The Radisson SAS Resort on the island of Djerba (Tunisia) has been equipped with the most modern dimmer technology from MA Lighting. The luxury hotel with its approximate 300 rooms and suites focusses on MA digital dimmer ,WM’ 12 x 3 kVA for the complete installation. The units have a robust coated ...

For the second time the “Rock in Rio”–Festival took place in Lisboa. About 360,000 people came to the venue in Bela Vista Park during five days of music – 14 hours a day it was party time. The festival ground was therefore called the City of Rock. All the while two grandMA full-size and a NSP worked...

“Belle et Fou – The play with lust” is a new show in Berlin. It’s Berlin’s first theatre of senses and offers the observer a unique show with eroticism, dance, music and theatre. The production of Arthur Castro, Hans-Peter Wodarz and Günter Münstermann tells stories about sensuality and attraction o...

A new feature which has now been integrated into the new grandMA video version is the Pixel Mapper. Similar to how the grandMA Bitmap-Effects enable you to create text and bitmaps and output them via DMX, the Pixel Mapper enables the media server to convert any video file or still images into pixel ...

“Constant improvements” is MA Lighting’s ambition. Therefore we are pleased to announce that there will be a new Software Release a few weeks after the PLASA show. To give a brief overview here are some highlights of the new features, functions and improvements:

New features grandMA Version 5.7x ...

They are floating cities. Carnival Cruise Lines ships offer their passengers a lot of variety. grandMA’s is playing a key role in the line's entertainment show control. "The grandMA system is an important component for technical operations in the main showroom on our ships," says Preston Bircher, en...

On Broadway, the runaway hit Avenue Q has already won the Tony award for Best Musical, Best Score and Best Book. If this wasn’t accolade enough, its lighting designer, Howell Binkley, this year scooped the prestigious Tony Award for Best Lighting Design for the musical Jersey Boys.  Both musica...