Matthieu Larivee and the team at Lüz Studio designed Jason Aldean’s 24-city ‘Highway Desperado’ tour, which concluded October 5 at Georgia’s Macon Amphitheatre. Larivee and his team positioned 59 of their 67 CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M motorized strobes (all supplied by Bandit Lites) on the deck floor.
Necessity is the mother of invention. The time-worn adage might sound a bit trite to modern ears, but its validity is being vividly demonstrated to sellout crowds across Europe and North America on Metallica’s M72 World Tour. The eight distinctive towers that lend a dramatic flair to the production came about when Production Designer, Dan Braun, had to find an alternative to his initial vision of creating tensegrity structures for the show. “I have been interested in tensegrity sculpture for a while and was working on this concept for an indoor show,” said Braun, who’s worked closely with Lighting Designer Rob Koenig on the production. “Our world changed, when the tour went to stadiums in the round. My first thought was ‘we can’t do that.’ But after careful consideration, I said ‘why not?’”Read More »Rob Koenig Connects Metallica to Crowd with 144 CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE Ms