This summer, some seven decades after Brutalism first shook things up in the design world, highly regarded Lighting and Production Designer Bryan Barancik has channeled its visceral power to create a gripping, deeply moving show for Lenny Kravitz on the four-time Grammy winner’s 27-city European tour, which began June 23 in Hamburg at Sporthalle.
The power and flexibility of Avolites’ D9 lighting console and an Avolites AI Qgen media server running Avo’s proprietary Synergy protocol were at the heart of lighting and video control for Arcadia Spectacular’s amazing new live music / performance experience when they debuted their Dragonfly conceptual art installation at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival.
AV Stumpfl’s media server platform, PIXERA, is the backbone to the creative Elektra opera at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden. The recent production of Elektra at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, with a capacity of 2,500, Germany’s largest venue of its kind demonstrated the capabilities of AV Stumpfl’s media server platform, PIXERA.
Friday, June 21 marked a momentous day for fans of extreme metal music. On that evening Dimitri Minakakis returned to join The Dillinger Escape Plan for the first of three shows at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, held to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the band’s seminal ‘Calculating Infinity’ album. Also making a return, though it was after a far shorter hiatus, was Victor Zeiser, Owner of Squeek Lights.
A team from Netherlands-based creative studio Live Legends headed by project director Serge Patist and lighting designers Thomas de Vries and Bas Knappers completed a bold and modern interior design and technical – set, video, lighting and audio – scheme for the SIR.TEEN Group and their new Club BEEN, a brand-new venue and entertainment concept that has burst onto the highly competitive nightlife scene in Beijing, China. The lighting design features over 250 Robe moving lights – 144 x Spikies and 76 x Viva CMYs and six T1 Profiles.
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Colorado-based Brown Note Productions recently fielded GLP products to help provide a riveting backdrop and enhance the natural wonder that is the Red Rocks Amphitheatre. The show was a fast-moving, high-octane performance by South African DJ/producer Black Coffee and guests. For this production, GLP solutions formed the major part of a lighting design that was piloted by Chris Thoms.
‘The Twist Years’ at the Eiffel Tower Theatre in Paris follows a group of young people who traverse the moral and social revolutions of the tumultuous ‘60s through some of that decade’s formative music. Recounted via music classics of the era, from French and international artists, all songs are presented live beneath an Elation rig of FUZE PROFILE and KL PROFILE FC luminaires.
The acclaimed British lighting designer, Ed Warren and his client Four Tet were 100-feet below the long and very busy Kosciuszko Bridge in NYC, busy doing what they love. Those passing overhead between Brooklyn and Queens were oblivious to the two-day festival below featuring a mix of EDM music from Four Tet and 20 artists. Warren lit Four Tet’s two main stage sets using his ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M Stadium Console.
Napoleon called it “the drawing room of Europe,” but Piazza San Marco is much more than that. For centuries, this 12,128 m2 trapezoidal space bordering the Bay of San Marco has been an enchanted spot of beauty and inspiration that has worked its magic on poets, artists, dreamers, and, of course, millions of tourists, from around the world.
Rock music’s legendary sister duo Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart performed a series of U.S. shows from April 20 to May 23 on their “Royal Flush Tour,” with lighting design by Carl Burnett. Burnett turned to Elation’s Proteus Brutus LED Wash FX and Proteus Maximus LED Profile moving heads as the foundation of the lighting rig, valuing their immense power while appreciating their refined design qualities.
American country music singer and songwriter Jamey Johnson is out on the “What a View” tour with a lighting system supplied by Bandit Lites. Known for his ability to blend storytelling with a classic country sound, he is touring with a lighting from Lighting designer Seth Jackson who utilized five of Bandit Lites Tyler Ladder Towers and four Bandit FlexRax as part of the rig.