"It occurred to me that I needed to have more options to create unique textured looks," Jason explains of his decision to use the new generation digital light. "I needed a video element that was not too literal and could be hidden within our stage and set design. I needed a digital moving light projector that I could control from my console. The Emotion was very easy to drive."
The Emotion is Elation's new plug and play DMX moving light with an on-board media server developed in cooperation with High End Systems. Utilizing only 32 DMX channels (54 in extended mode), it houses royalty-free digital art and videos with the ability to upload custom content.
"With no time to create custom gobo's I knew I could have everything I needed and more within a moving head digital projector," Jason comments. "The Emotion has plenty of built in rotatable gobo's and video content crunched down to 54 channels! And at 4000 lumens, I had plenty of firepower for the size of stage. It also acts as a standard moving light with CMY color mixing. This is huge and although I did not use this option for my needs, I look forward to exploring this more down the road."
Joe Russo's Almost Dead, who mostly cover Grateful Dead songs, played a monster electric and acoustic three-set performance that took the crowd into the New Year. The Emotion lights were tucked out of site behind a set of legs and used to project content onto a sharkstooth scrim as well as trees and shrubs built into the sets.
"I was able to create some subtle breathing effects on the trees and go to a 60's psychedelic time warp for one song," Jason comments. "The Emotion was just the right fixture for us. These lights are small, fit two to a case, and don't weigh much. I would recommend this light to anyone in need of adding some layer to your show with a unique fixture that has endless creative opportunities."
(Jim Evans)
