Flume plays Red Rocks with Claypaky
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Brown Note Productions provided the equipment, while lighting designer Stu Dingley was charged with creating the design.
Dingley used 46 Sharpys for Red Rocks, positioning 16 Sharpys on the floor in two horizontal lines at offset heights backing the artist, while 30 more were mounted overhead and kept in reserve for heavier electronic moments in the show.
The LD also used 36 Sharpy washes, deploying four of them as side key lights and 32 overhead. While the floor package at Red Rocks was the same as that on Flume’s ongoing American tour, the overhead fixtures are only used for headline shows.
He explained: “A large part of the design used spots and coloured strobes. We wanted to avoid drawing too many parallels to the EDM world so we kept the overhead beams in our back pocket for the sporadic EDM-esque drops to pair with the vast shift in music and really attack the audience. Some of the musical drops were almost tongue in cheek to the other EDM acts out there, so we wanted to prove we could flex when asked to!”
A.C.T Lighting is the exclusive distributor of Claypaky products in North America.
Francesco Romagnoli, Claypaky area manager for North and Latin America, added, “It’s festival season and we’re happy to see our fixtures appear on so many stages. The Flume team are all great artists and we were glad to be a part of the show.”
Production designer Rob Sinclair crafted the scenic elements of neon-lit glass cubes and booth working alongside creative director Jonathan Zawada; Chris Rupple was the lighting crew chief and Joel Eriksson - the production manager.
(Jim Evans)
