Outline shines at the Bright Festival
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The festival’s innovative format proposed an original fusion of education and entertainment, which was anything but conventional “edutainment”. The daytime programme featured meetings, master classes, workshops and lectures, which covered highly varied topics: from music production to virtual reality, in collaboration with universities, Italian and international companies and start-ups. Participants showed great interest in all the initiatives dedicated to electronic music, but also those regarding projection mapping, lighting design for shows and digital photography.
Evening entertainment at Stazione Leopolda also met with great success, and the public were treated to shows by the most important artistes on the electronic music scenario, with exponents of international calibre such as Derrick May (considered one of the inventors of techno), Francesco Tristano (eclectic Luxemburg musician and composer, equally at home not only with music electronic experimental, but also with classical music and jazz), Sweden’s La Fleur and many more.
The Festival’s general manager, Claudio Caciolli, states: “As far as the technical set-up was concerned, Bright Festival relied totally on rental company Emporio on Stage from Scandicci, who was responsible for the choice of the companies for the stage, lighting, LED wall, lasers and sound system.”
Caciolli continues: “At the Bright Festival, a great contribution was given by the sound system: the audio equipment by well-known Brescia manufacturer Outline was enormously appreciated for the clarity of the sonic definition and its power, which I would define as out of the ordinary.”
The rig comprised 16 Outline Mantas 28 line array elements and six Outline DBS 18-2 subwoofers, powered by Powersoft X8 amplifiers.
Satisfaction was also expressed by the artists, who also used Outline Vegas 15 CX speaker systems, in this case deployed as stage monitors. The PA and monitors were fine-tuned and controlled by Catoni.
(Jim Evans)
