Event Management Invests In More Kinesys For Io Canto Series

Live show, event and broadcast video specialist Event Management based in Milan, Italy, has expanded their investment in Kinesys automation to service the latest series of the popular TV show, Io Canto.

The purchase of the new Kinesys equipment consisted of elevation1+ drives, K2 consoles, LibraCELL’s, LibraWIFI, Beam Trolley’s and half tonne Liftket motors, Kinesys converted to work variable speed.

Event Management made their first investment in Kinesys at the end of 2012 because they wanted “A flexible and dynamic system that enabled us to offer the best and most inventive technology in the field to our clients” explains Daniele Parazzoli, Event Managements’ Chief Operating Officer, adding that having Kinesys in the inventory has really put the company into a different league in the Italian broadcast market.

The fourth edition of Io Canto was recorded in Studio 20 of broadcaster Mediaset’s Cologno Monzese complex in Milan and aired nationwide on Channel 5 HD. Its quest was to discover the best new singing talent amongst young people aged 5 – 16.

IO CANTO 2013 from Event Management on Vimeo.

Francesco de Cave, Io Canto’s production and lighting designer, first worked with Kinesys products on tour with Italian singer Tiziano Ferro in 2012. He spec’d Kinesys for this years’ Io Canto because, with 11 shows including the Christmas Special, he knew that having automation on a key structural elements would bring exactly the diversity and variety of looks they needed to make each episode visually different and interesting to millions of TV viewers and a weekly live studio audience.

“Kinesys is highly accurate, safe and reliable. I needed a system that could open, close and align the back video columns to within a 1mm tolerance and it’s the best system I currently know of for achieving this” he states.

Part of Event Management’s commitment to the Kinesys brand has included training at Kinesys HQ in London for their key technicians, enabling them to maximize their knowledge of all the system elements and the sophisticated K2 control platform. This , further enhances the company’s ability to pitch for projects requiring bespoke and imaginative automation elements … as in addition to all their live / broadcast video requirements.

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