Machu Picchu, also known as the Lost City of the Incas, is perhaps the most familiar icon of the Inca World located 2,430m above sea level on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley. Not the easiest site for a lighting installation.
The celebration involved lighting the historic city with a vast array of colour from high atop the mountains. Two W-DMX F-1 G4 Transmitters and Receivers were used to send signal to 40 Vari*Lite VL3500 Washes, 20 Vari*Lite VL3000 Spots, 20 Atomic 3000 strobes and 2 Strong Super Trouper 2K follow spots. Lighting designer was Gian Franco Di Vitto and Andres Cuadros was the equipment consultant. A grandMA2 Ultra-Light was used to control lighting programmed by Martin Tolentino with a WholeHog III used to control the conventional lighting. Equipment was supplied by Red Power Peru.
The W-DMX was doing the communication between the consoles and the rig with the console and the luminaries located approximately 500m apart.
"We're always so happy when W-DMX is used on such historic celebrations," said Niclas Arvidsson, CEO of Wireless Solution, "The team was extremely pleased with the reliability and ease of use of our system."
(Jim Evans)
