Portuguese lighting design company, Lamp On! Creative Solutions has three Vista I3 lighting consoles in its rental stock for use by its team of lighting designers - Vitor Azevedo, brother Pedro Azevedo and Rui Rodrigues. The company chose the mid-range Vista I3 model due to its combination of affordability and built-in Linux operating system.
LD Vitor Azevedo used one of the Vista consoles on the recent João Pedro Pais Portuguese tour to launch their latest album, A Palma E A Mão. The wide variety of venue sizes, ranging from small clubs to large outdoor arenas, necessitated using different local suppliers and rigs on a daily basis. As with his previous tours using the Vista, Azevedo found that the console's generic fixture model allowed him to easily change fixture types as the rig changed from venue to venue.
The company introduced freelance lighting designer, Cristóvão Veríssimo, to the Vista for the current international tour of electro-rock band Blasted Mechanism. Blasted Mechanism have a reputation for their highly theatrical live shows, which involve elaborate alien-themed costumes, visuals and unique musical instruments built for them. The Vista's timeline has proved the perfect tool for the band's vision, which requires exact synchronisation between sound, image and light.
(Jim Evans)
