Pozzoli incorporated a visually stunning cylindrical LED screen made up of Martin LC Series LED panels into the design. He explains his decision to use the LC panels, "I needed LED panels with a medium pitch between 30 and 60mm to ensure intelligibility and transparency simultaneously. Rental company Giochi di Luce offered me the LC Series so I took the opportunity to test them in combination with Martin's Maxedia media server and Maxxyz lighting console."
The LC panels formed an arcing 6m wide by 4m high cylindrical structure positioned at centre stage, the visual centrepiece of the set.
"With both concave and convex sides facing the audience, in practice we achieved two superimposed screens," says Pozzoli. "The configuration produced three-dimensional effects with attractive overlays and unusual perspectives due to the specific geometry of the object. The cylinder was open at the sides, which allowed the artist to perform inside, interacting with the images."
Mamo says that the LC Series' 40mm pitch is the best to obtain the type of effect and calls the 1 x 2m dimensions of the panels "very smart" and "easy to set up and robust to take on tour."
Pozzoli also used Martin MAC 700 Washes on the tour as well as Atomic 3000 strobes which he calls "indispensable".
The only graphics used were generated entirely by a Maxedia Broadcast media server which worked well with the screen's resolution and transparency of the panels, reports Pozzoli. Video programmer/operator for the tour, Cristiano Blandin Savoia, used a Martin Maxxyz console linked to the Maxedia.
"Thanks to its proprietary user interface and video engine, the Maxedia Broadcast is a powerful tool to compose or manipulate video in real time with really advanced creative possibilities," Savoia comments. "The Maxxyz Compact is the perfect interface to improve the control of the Maxedia and to time/programme the cues with great efficiency, all thanks to its physical layout and software interface, which are coherent with Maxedia."
(Jim Evans)
