Chauvet creates scenic touch for Café Tacvba
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The colourful, scenic-rich stage show that fans have long expected from Café Tacvba is also very much in evidence on the Niu Güeis tour, thanks in no small part to an immersive, richly coloured lightshow designed by Félix Peralta with help from a collection of Chauvet Professional fixtures.
Peralta is using 72 Nexus Aq 5X5 panels, supplied by Meridian Pro Audio, in his design for the tour. Configured in six large vertically-oriented rectangles that run across the upstage deck, the panels provide a stunning background for the band. Pixel-mapped, they display varying geometric patterns throughout the concert, reflecting the changing moods of the music, and adding an evocative scenic element to the stage.
The intense output of the panels allows them to stand up to the beams of light that Peralta projected around them at various points during the show. Peralta also changes colours on the RGBW panels to contrast them to different washes. The resultant layered coloured effect adds an alluring scenic quality to his design.
Thanks to the easy-to-install design of the Nexus Aq 5X5, each rectangular screen was assembled quickly and easily. "I had previously worked with Chauvet Professional fixtures. I liked these panels because of the intensity of brightness of all the colours, as well as the shapes and dynamics that are available to create different effects with the same luminaire," adds Peralta.
(Jim Evans)
