For the second year in a row, this event was held in Katowice, this time spread to two locations - Spodek and the newly built International Convention Centre. Event broke all records of audience and visitors.
The event lasted for a total of four days, and ARAM was responsible for the design and implementation.
"Work began many months before the show," says Michael Mrzyg?ocki. "We were responsible for the execution of the set design of projects for all three stages." The ARAM team worked closely with both the client and the executors, among others, Jack Van Daniels.
The resulting total of three scenes, including an impressive main stage with a total span of 60m, located in Katowice Spodek. Two smaller scenes with a span of 12m and 16m respectively, and buildings for over 20 exhibition stands, which stood at the International Congress Centre. The logistics involved using 16 trucks of equipment.
The main stage installation involved 1000m of trusses and over 400 LED devices such as wash and strip and illumination. On the two smaller stages nearly 70 different types of lighting fixtures were used, including the Vari * Lite 3500S, Clay Paky Sharpy and Fourlight FL-600.
The design of the main stage in Katowice Spodek is based on a system of Layher, which was illuminated by many kinds of moving and led lights. Lighting devices include: Clay Paky Mythos, Vari * Lite 3500S, Clay Paky sharpy, Clay Paky sharpy Wash, Clay Paky Alpha Spot 800 ST QWO, Fourlight FL-600, Robe Robin 1200 Four Light Blinders.
The whole system was controlled by GrandMA 2 and the show was programmed and implemented by Wojtek 'Koper' Koperski. The multimedia element featured two huge projection screens using Barco projectors.
(Jim Evans)
