VisionLite invests in Kinesys Apex
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The new Apex products went straight out on the Resistance summer season in Ibiza where they helped create a spectacular production design for the popular club experience.
Resistance embraced its underground roots in curating a serious line-up of superlative techno, led by artists like Carl Cox and Sasha & John Digweed in the 10,000 capacity Privilege venue, running for nine incendiary events over the summer.
The Resistance creative team has developed a distinctive dynamic industrial aesthetic for their live shows which is often based on moving video and lighting pods transforming the architecture and shape of the space as the night unfolds.
Thirteen moving pods defined this year’s Ibiza look, 10 filled with LED screen elements and three with moving lights.
Those with LED were flown utilising 40 x Apex hoists, while 12 x Kinesys Elevation 1+ motors flew the three lighting pods, allowing them all to move, tilt and pitch in any direction via the K2 control.
Kinesys LibraCELL load monitoring was added to the Elevation hoist system to keep a ‘live’ check on the loads (the Apex system comes with inbuilt loadcells as standard). The safety system was controlled by two Kinesys Mentor 4 units which are SIL3 compliant, so all the e-stop buttons went through Mentor.
VisionLite undertook the entire automation technical production for Resistance Ibiza, from the initial risk assessments to specification and supply of the kit, plus assisting with the process as relative to automation. They also supplied a skilled operator - Andrzej Szostak - to run and tech the system for the season.
“Apex brings the highest safety standards, fast movement and zero speed control to the design, so the movement was ultra smooth. Apex is also very flexible, so we can program more advanced transitions between the cues” stated Kosma Szostak, who founded VisionLite in 2014.
(Jim Evans)
