Almost 300 Chauvet MVP video panels were interlocked into a large-scale wall framing out the booth on three sides to create an immersive experience. Against that backdrop, a truss spider held over 200 fixtures, including the premiering COLORado Zoom Tour wash lights and Legend 412 LED moving yokes. At the floor level, a runway was flanked by Q-Wash 560Z-LED moving heads and the new Épix Series of pixel mapping fixtures running on ArKaos Kling-Net protocol.
four days for the Chauvet team to set up the 'Infectious' booth, using seven universes of control and rigging about 17,000 pounds of gear - including cables. "We used 46 pieces of truss, 31 motors, a custom-built motor control and ran about 2,000ft of cable," said Mike Graham, product manager for Chauvet Professional.
The creative team of Chauvet enlisted the help of lighting designer Chris Lisle, most recently involved in the Miranda Lambert tour, and of Scott Chmielewski, president of Digital Media Designs and a programmer for the band Phish. Chmielewski helmed the controls and video integration, while Lisle spent more than 12 hours programming a show that featured 57 cues controlling 17 different Chauvet fixtures.
(Jim Evans)
