Spain - Currently touring to promote their second album Fuego, Spanish band Xeria has also mastered LightShark so that they can easily adapt their own show to suit different sized venues.
Lighting designer Alex Conde, founder of Aconde Design, was commissioned to design the lighting for the band Xeria, who are currently touring Spain to promote their new album Fuego.
"My main responsibility was designing the layout of the lighting equipment, programming the lighting for each song, and automating MIDI commands with Xeria’s Cymatic Audio LP-16 MIDI audio system and an IRing MIDI 2 adapter,” he explains.
“For this tour Xeria is using four Equipson Mark Beam 201 moving heads, eight Equipson Mark Mbar RGB 4 lighting bars, and four Equipson Mark MF 1500 VT fog machines. To ensure that the lighting setup matched their music, I used the LightShark LS-Core to create a complete setup with static lighting and moving heads. As this tour visits venues and festivals with large stages, as well as pubs with small stages, it was important that the lighting could be adapted and adjusted to suit both types of spaces."
Hailing from Toledo, Xeria has become a dominant force in Spanish alternative metal circles where it is renowned for its melodic and elaborate music and for intertwining different musical styles with hard-hitting lyrics that focus on social and current issues. The five-piece band consists of Félix Gacho on bass, Carlos Z on guitars, Victor Herrera on keyboards, César Manjarrés on drums and Marina Sweet on vocals.
The Fuego tour currently covers 13 cities, with more dates likely to be added later this year. The band are opening for Celtian, which is also promoting a new album, and also sharing some dates with Headon and Heleven.
Conde continues, "I use LightShark to programme all my live show projects, for example designing the tour for the group Sôber in 2021, which involved OSC commands and Millumin software. The Xeria project is very similar to that, except it involves moving heads. I integrated an LS-Core into the audio system, which was very beneficial for the band because the LS-Core is rack-mounted. There are 12 cue lists, and more than 500 cues and performers recorded, with the commands to activate the cue list and the performers triggered by MIDI.
“Thanks to the intuitive nature of the LightShark interface, along with the simplicity of editing cue lists and updating palettes, it is now possible for band members to add steps or cues to each song themselves, update the cue lists for each show and easily update the position palettes of the spotlights without the need of a technician."
Conde adds that the band learned to use LightShark in just two days and are now delighted with the creative freedom it gives them.
"They enjoy the independence LightShark gives them because they can now update the show themselves by improving cue list steps, changing colours or movements and revising positions," he says.
Although Alex Conde is using LS-Core for this tour, the LightShark range also includes the LS-1 hardware console with assignable faders and rotary controls; the LS-Wing Open Sound Control (OSC) hardware controller, and three multiprotocol DMX streaming devices - each supporting a different numbers of DMX universes - that are collectively referred to as LS-NODE.
