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INTERNATIONAL NEWS PROJECTION LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS LEDs Add Light to Flaming Water Feature The flaming water feature at Star City Casino has three concentric circles of Anolis LEDs, controlled via an E:cue controller. AMSTERDAM — For two thirds of Mark Knopfler’s touring show, designed by Simon Tutchener, a key visual element remains hidden from view. But halfway through Knopfler’s “Speedway at Nazareth,” a giant close-up of a vintage steel guitar, suspended on circular truss, tips vertically, creating a new look for the end of the set and the encore. Drapes specialist company Blackout uses a high-resolution photo of the center of the vintage National Style 0 Resonator guitar that Knopfler plays when he starts the song, “Romeo and Juliet.” It’s a steel-body guitar with a very distinctive sound and appearance, featuring a circular sounding board and a resonator on the front. Bandit Lites is supplying lighting equipment and crew for the U.K., European and U.S. legs of Knopfler’s 2008 world tour, which kicked off in Amsterdam at the end of March. This is the third time Bandit has worked with the Knopfler team. The Bandit crew also worked with Knopfler on his 2005 world tour and his 2006 shows with Emmylou Harris. As before, Tutchener’s lighting design emphasizes simplicity in its look, with the eightmeter A-type circular truss as the main focal point over the center of the stage, flanked by a 24-foot and 16-foot A-type truss on each side. There’s also a 56-foot A-type rear truss. There are 12 Vari*Lite VL3000s hung off the underside of the circle and eight Martin Professional MAC 2000 washes rigged on top. They come into play when the guitar close-up comes into view. As tour rigger Johnny “Hotpants” Ashton controls the circle’s movement using one of Bandit’s customized motor controllers, Tutchener beams the moving lights onto the screen. Another 16 Vari*Lite VL3000 Spots on the rig are loaded with custom gobos, six on the floor and the 10 others on the trusses. In addition, 20 MAC 2000 Washes are on the trusses, which are toned by 24 LED PAR 64s. Bandit is also supplying an 18 way motor control system, an 18 meter by 10 meter LED Starcloth, four Lycian 2K Xenon FOH followspots, a 10-way intercom system and two DF50s with fans. Tutchener chose a fully moving light rig for two reasons. First, the trussing configuration would have made it difficult to climb and focus conventionals. Second, there was a need to guard against dimmer buzz picked up by the ultra-sensitive steel guitars. With a total of 56 moving lights on the rig, each one has several precise functions and tasks. The show was initially programmed over the course of two nights at Bray Studios before the first show opened in Amsterdam. Tutchener runs the show from his own grandMA console with an MA Lite supplied by Bandit as backup. Bandit’s crew includes crew chief Mike Humeniuk, dimmer technician Ewan Cameron and lighting technician Tom Crosbie. The tour’s production manager is Pete Hillier and the tour manager is Tim Hook. SYDNEY — Anolis LED fixtures are illuminating a flaming water feature at the entrance to Sydney’s Star City Casino. The installation is the first of its kind, and the light show is designed to make people stop and look before being enticed up the steps and through the portals onto the gambling floor. The brand’s Australian distributor, ULA, supplied the Anolis products. Con Nomikos oversaw the project, the first of a series of water features in and around the Star City complex that will be lit or re-lit with Anolis. The circular shaped fountain encompasses three concentric circles of Anolis LEDs. There is a sphere of 20 cold white ArcSource 3s on the outside and two tiers of ArcSource 12 RGBs in the center, for a total of 12 fixtures. The lights are run via an E:cue controller, triggered, along with flame effects and the fountain jets, via a ShowMagic show control system. “This is our first LED lit work, although we have been considering using the technology for some time, for all the obvious practical reasons — power and energy saving, low maintenance and cost-effectivity,” said the fountain’s Steel Guitar Steals Mark Knopfler Show HANOVER, Germany — The close-up of a vintage steel guitar, suspended on circular truss, tips vertically, creating a new look for the set. GUANGZHOU, China — The Spring Lantern Festival, held 15 days after the Chinese New Year, has been celebrated in alternate forms long before it was formalized by the Han dynasty sometime in the two centuries before and after the time of Christ. If the festival itself hasn’t changed a whole lot over more than 2000 years, the way it gets shared with others in China has, with TV cameras broadcasting images enhanced by digital moving lights. The Hunan Provincial TV station sponsored this year’s Here Comes the Spring festival, using two W-DMX transmitters and three receivers to control four DL.2 digital moving lights from High End Systems. Zhou Xiaolin was the lighting designer at the event, and the W-DMX products were supplied by Leifull Enterprise, which also supported the lighting design. “What’s amazing is that we can achieve an enormous span of control with just a few W-DMX transmitters and receivers,” said Eric Lee, sales manager for Leifull. Who could have predicted, back in 1989, that the fall of the Berlin Wall would give rise to a new one, nearly four times as high? Only this wall, measuring 29 meters across and 14 meters high, is an LED wall that celebrates the reunification of Germany. It was installed by Procon Event Engineering, and it animates performers from each of Germany’s 16 federal states as they vie for bragging rights in Bundesvision Song Contest, an annual music competition. Created by German TV entertainer Stefan Raab, the event took place at the TUI Arena in Hanover, and it was aired on the ProSieben network in Germany earlier this year. The backdrop for the 16 finalists added up to 406 square meters of Martin’s LC Series panels, the largest LED wall installation for Martin’s LC Series line. The uber-wall, built from more than 200 semi-transparent LC 2140 panels, dominated the set for this year’s show. It had a physical resolution of 725 x 350 pixels and was joined by another 32 square meters of LC panels used on a moving catwalk that was seven meters high. That made for a total of 438 square meters of LED panels. The set also featured an LC panel ‘door’ that opened up to provide contest presenters with a unique way to enter the catwalk and set — through the LED wall. Set and video designer Florian Wieder created visual content for the LED walls and projections in full HD. The images were fed from FOH via five Catalyst media servers. In addition to stock media server content, live pictures were presented on the LED wall with a switch over of the image source occurring via media control designer, Robert Portocarrero. “Additionally, the Anolis colors and the quality of the light are really excellent, so there’s plenty of imaginative scope, and the product is robust and very well made.” The water feature cycles through a sevenminute show accompanied by flames and an audio track. During the show, the jets produce different water shapes and formations, and they shimmer, sparkle and refract the light, creating visual interest with color mixes and surprises. The casino was impressed enough with the fountain lighting to request that Anolis be used to replace the current lighting in all 14 of the complex’s other water features. Uber-Wall Animates German Singing Competition The backdrop for the Bundesvision Song Contest is an LED wall made from a total 438 square meters of LED panels. out of the OB van. Production company voss | mediaDesign GmbH was responsible for the lighting design and playback of the video content. Manfred Voss of voss | mediaDesign worked closely with Florian Wieder, who specified the Martin LC Series for the show. Martin’s LC Series is a semi-transparent, modular system of lightweight LED panels with 40 mm pixel pitch. The panels are usually bright enough to be operated at a fraction of full intensity, and they incorporate Genlock, which minimizes the light-flicker often detected by television cameras. The lighting rig on the show consisted of over 350 moving lights including 132 MAC 2000 Washes, 68 MAC 2000 Profiles and 28 MAC 700 Profiles, along with other automateds, conventionals and PixelRange PixelLine LED Striplights. The gear was supplied by Procon, and Martin provided on site technical support headed by Claus Jensen, product and application specialist. DMX, Digital Lighting Update Ancient Festival TV cameras and moving lights update the look for a spring festival that dates back to ancient times. 12 PLSN JUNE 2008
PROJECTION LIGHTS & STAGING NEWS INTERNATIONAL NEWS LED Panels Brighten Theatre Within the Kremlin MOSCOW — The State Kremlin Palace, a theatre built in 1961, may have pre-dated most of the casinos lining the Las Vegas Strip, but it’s a youngster by Moscow standards. It’s the only part of the vast Kremlin complex to have been built during the 20th Century. The fortified Kremlin complex itself has been occupied continuously for some 4,000 years. Now a venue for music and dance, the 6,000-seat auditorium ranks as the largest concert hall in Russia, and also the temporary home for the Bolshoi Ballet while the Bolshoi Theatre undergoes renovation. For a special event marking 75 years of Russian aviation history, including the Sputnik rockets and MiG planes, it also showed off its new Main Light Soft-LED panels for the first time. Jakob Sagiv, of Silk, the Main Light Industries, Inc. distributor based in Utrecht, Netherlands, handled the sale and installation of 14 Main Light Soft-LED Medium Resolution panels. Each of the panels measures 16 feet, 1 inch by 33 feet, five inches wide, and weighs only .21 lbs per square foot. Lighting the World’s Tallest Theatre BANGKOK — The stage for the 2,000-seat Ratchada Grand Theatre, at 50 meters by 80 meters, provides elbow room (and martial-arts kicking room) for spectacles such as Siam Niramit, with 150 actors, 500 costumes and 100 set pieces. And at just under 12 meters in height, the Ratchada Grand Theatre was recently listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the tallest proscenium arch in the world. The dimensions of the performance space, however, posed a challenge for project lighting designer Poon Limpapun. To meet the needs of the mammoth space, he turned to Robert Juliat. “With throwing distances from our front electrics bars of over 30 meters, the 2000W Profiles do their job very well. “ The rig includes more than 100 Robert Juliat 700SX 2kW and Robert Juliat 600SX 1kW profiles with full accessories, along a matching number of Robert Juliat 1kW High Performance (200mm lens) 310HPC fixtures. Together, they provide both general and specific illumination from on-stage and front of house positions. There are also a pair of DMX controlled Robert Juliat Aramis 2500W followspots used as long-throw front of house spots and another pair of Robert Juliat Korrigan 1200W DMX follow spots for side spots. “The Kremlin Palace was used as the main stage for the Communist conferences during the Soviet times and is still used for all the indoor concerts of major artists,” Sagiv said. “The stage is vast and the sightlines are very good so it is suitable for music and ballet.” Giovanni Ciranni, Soft-LED Manager with Main Light Industries, traveled to Moscow to aid in the installation and to provide training on the use of the Soft-LED panels. “Moscow was a great place to visit and everyone at the State Palace was very eager to add the panels to their inventory,” Ciranni said. Installation was not difficult, but Ciranni, Sagiv and the crew from Silk faced a challenge getting the panels into the theatre due to tight security. “We had to wait nearly five hours until the sniffer dog and its handler arrived to inspect the delivery before we could get into the building and onstage,” Sagiv said. All the security of the Kremlin simply reminded Ciranni of the historic nature of the venue. “It was great to get the opportunity to work in a space that has seen so much history, not just the State Palace but the entire complex. It is cool to think that Main Light will now be part of that going forward.” The panels were also recently used at the Kremlin for an annual concert attended by Russian president Vladimir Putin. A throw distance of over 80 meters helps the Robert Juliat followspots light the action on the stage. Ad info:http:// www.plsn.com/instant-info 2008 JUNE PLSN 13
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