With the Midnight Mafia organisers promising to deliver "the biggest event to date", the pressure was certainly on LD Arian Yegenah to come up with an entertaining visual concept to delight the expectant 7,000 partygoers. To award the 5,400sq.m space with an added visual dimension, Chamelion touring systems Australia acquired 14 x Chauvet Professional Vesuvio RGBA fixtures from Australian distributor Showtools to provide Yegenah with illuminated fog effects to fill the impressive event space.
Yegenah placed two Vesuvio RGBA fixtures on each of the seven moving truss arms suspended from the rafters 22m above the ground, which could be elevated and lowered to present the overall event space both with kinetic fluidity and changing aerial dimensions. To the delight of the partying audience below, the full ferocious intensity of the Vesuvio RGBA with its 40,000 cubic feet per minute atmospheric fog output was unleashed during climatic moments throughout the festival, giving Yegenah a key tool to deliver a versatile array of effects.
"The Vesuvio's lush plume effects created a visual spectacle for the clubbers," commented Yegenah. "The thick billowing fog that the Vesuvio is able to produce is quite impressive, and even the most cavernous of spaces like the Sydney Showgrounds are lost in haze in a matter of seconds."
The combination of the Vesuvio's ferocious fog output and RGBA LED intensity allowed bursts of fog to disperse onto the crowd at various stages of the festival and produce differing illuminated effects during the various artists' sets.
"Thanks to the RGBA LEDs of the Vesuvio, the atmospheric fog effects are brought to completely new levels of intensity," commented Yegenah.
(Jim Evans)
