This year Summerburst Baltic has been added; the Vingis Park, Vilnius in Lithuania will host the festival that boasts a multitude of artists from the EDM genre including headliner Steve Angello.
For the past three years, lighting design duties for Steve Angello have fallen to Jon Trincas. "After a valuable period of working as a technician on a wide variety of shows, from theatre and opera to concert touring, I began operating about four years ago. I got involved with Steve Angello's team and began creating live show designs. Currently I design and operate for both Steve Angello and Galantis; between them we do over 250 shows a year so I'm kept pretty busy."
Away from touring, Trincas is also the creative director of ZEAL that gathers the collective talents of four colleagues to provide design services to a wide range of artists and festivals including the lighting and rigging production for Steve Angello's headline show at Creamfields last year.
For the past year, Trincas has become an exclusive grandMA2 user. He explains why: "Designers and operators tend to be very loyal to their board of choice but my previous brand of console was not only hard to specify in many parts of the world but wasn't really offering the programming options I needed.
"Switching to MA control meant I could replicate our show on a daily basis worldwide, maximising the experience for the audience and also making my life on the road a lot easier. The support I got from Ambersphere Solutions during the transition stages was fantastic and very accommodating. No query was too big - or too small; everyone was always happy to help. I soon wondered why I hadn't made the switch years ago.
"For me, macros were the biggest selling point of the grandMA2. With the nature of the shows we deal with on a daily basis, I have to find ways of creating and updating my showfile in very minimal time, sometimes only an hour on site. The file is built in a way so that I can adapt effortlessly on a daily basis. The show is completely busked and on the fly so I have to have everything at my fingertips."
Trincas is now a passionate convert and always specifies a grandMA2 with an MA2 Lite as a networked backup. During time away from global festivals he uses MA platforms offline to create new shows both for Steve Angello and other clients of ZEAL.
(Jim Evans)
