For Paul Simon’s recent So Beautiful or So What tour, LD Rich Locklin and lighting director Steve Fallon use a large screen filled with media content as the main backdrop. With a minimum of lighting fixtures — 16 fixtures each on two rigs — Fallon uses images of moving light beams in the media content to fill out the rig. This adds to the beam effects without adding more gear. …Often, the content draws you in, sometimes taking on the effect of 3D, such as when a red background contrasts with the blue light on the band. Fallon also makes use of images of windows and doorways to shine extra light through, again adding dimension and depth.
—Debi Moen, from “Designer Watch,” PLSN, Dec. 2011
