Bryce Cherpelis gets artistic with Chauvet
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Over at the festival’s popular Green Stage, Bryce Cherpelis contributed to the cornucopia of visual delights with a richly textured and vividly coloured lightshow anchored by a collection of Chauvet Professional fixtures and video panels. Uplighting his stage with fixtures positioned behind a fronting 4’ by 20’ wall of subwoofers and downlighting it with Rogue R1 Washes, he created a solid stage wash. He then added depth and more color to the panorama with eight video wall columns made of PVP X6IP panels. This lighting turned the stage into a glowing jewel box that stood out against the Colorado sky.
“I started designing for ARISE five years ago working a side stage for tweener acts,” said Cherpelis, the owner of 12BC Pro, LLC in Boulder. “Each year I moved up to a bigger project, until this year I was honoured to design the Green Stage. There’s a very lush visual environment at this festival. At every turn, you see a lot of stunning art. My goal was to create something very colourful on stage so it blended in with its surroundings.”
The demand for versatility combined with true colour rendering made Rogue fixtures a logical choice for Cherpelis, who included eight R1 Washes, eight R2 Washes and eight RH1 Hybrids in his rig. “The Rogues gave me a lot of options,” he said. “Aside from relying on the R1 and R2 as washes, I used them as beams for some solid geometry looks. Plus, their diodable chases were fun with some acts. Throughout the festival, we used the RH1 Hybrid as profile light. The zoom, two rotating prisms and gobo features in the RH1 let us change up looks, going from a sharp beam to a spot just like that - bam!”
To create concert style looks for the bands that appeared on the Green Stage, Cherpelis relied on his Rogue RH1 Hybrids and R2 Washes along with his eight hanging video wall columns.
Controlling the entire rig was a ChamSys MagicQ MQ100. For most of the concert the console was run by Cherpelis or Matt Jonzey Jones of Synaesthesiax. “I can’t say enough about Matt Jones, who provided years of knowledge as well as the main ChamSys 100Pro with two extra wings and one execute wing. He held down a large chunk of the weekend shows,” said Cherpelis. “A lot of companies and people made this happen. PK SOUND, Midas Consoles, Backline Drums, and Wood Street Production all furnished the gear lighting and otherwise. I am still glowing over what we accomplished.”
(Jim Evans)
