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Chroma-Q Space Force LED Soft Light

Chroma-Q Space Force LED Soft Light

Chroma-Q Space Force LED Soft Light

Chroma-Q’s Space Force LED Soft Light, featured at Prolight + Sound 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany, is available in North America as well and is now shipping. The Space Force is a cutting-edge variable white LED Space Light that is a modern replacement for conventional space lights or soft light sources commonly used in film and TV studios around the world. The fixture benefits from cool running, energy efficiency, lightweight design and minimum maintenance.

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Vejle Musikteater

Major Venue in Vejle, Denmark Invests in Robe Fixtures

VEJLE, Denmark — Vejle Musikteater, a performing arts venue that is home to a 1,134-seat Great Hall and the 300-seat Jacob Gade Hall, upgraded with new gear from Robe. The venue has invested in over 50 Robe fixtures, including MMX Spots and LEDWash 600 moving lights and PARfect 100s in the last three years, a move instigated by Technical Manager Tor Futtrup.

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Nook Schoenfeld

The Inevitable Death of Tungsten

I’m proud of the diversity of our articles because we cover so many different stories, from so many different angles. With every story I read, I usually get a spark of info that leads me to think along another tangent. If the spark is big enough, I may expand on it and offer an opinion on something. Such a thing happened in the article we publish this month featuring Don Holder lighting the revamped Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway (see “Inside Theatre“).

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LD Matt Mills

LD Matt Mills with Disturbed

TOUR: Immortalized Tour

DATES: Feb. 2016 into 2017

THE DESIGN: “My intent was to do a 100 percent LED rig. I got close, but at the last minute, I changed the profile fixtures out. I really needed a bit more horsepower to cut through the wash. There were several conference calls about ideas and direction. I was their LD when they went on hiatus back in 2011, and was flattered to get the call back. Fortunately, there was already a relationship built, and we picked right up where we left off.”

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Photo by Joan Marcus

White Box Magic: LD Don Holder’s Design for ‘Fiddler On the Roof’

Unlike the typical Broadway show, director Bartlett Sher’s new revival of the iconic musical, Fiddler On The Roof, takes place in a white box setting with a highly reflective back wall, which allowed Tony Award-winning lighting designer Donald Holder the chance to play and sculpt with light in fun ways. “I got a lot of the responsibility for changing the space, of transforming it from one location to the other, one season to the next,” he tells PLSN. “It was real, pure storytelling through light. You don’t always get that opportunity. It was a challenge, but also a joy.”

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PLSN Show Report - 2016 Prolight + Sound in Frankfurt, Germany

Prolight + Sound 2016 Show Report

The 2016 Prolight + Sound and Musikmesse exhibitions in Frankfurt, Germany swapped physical locations this year, and instead of being held concurrently, the show dates were staggered, with Prolight + Sound running April 5-8 and Musikmesse held April 7-10. It’s part of the organizer’s re-launch of Musikmesse from a trade fair to more of a consumer music event and festival. Not everyone was happy with the changes, of course, but that didn’t hurt the overall stats for Prolight + Sound — which enjoyed an increase in total exhibitors (from 920 to 940) and a 16 percent increase in the exhibition display area. And as ever, there were plenty of technological advances on show.

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Bruce Springsteen 2016 'River' tour photo by Steve Jennings

Q&A with Jeff Ravitz and Peter Daniel on Bruce Springsteen’s 2016 ‘River’ Tour

“Can you recreate a 1980s concert look in 2016?” Bruce Springsteen asked of his longtime LD Jeff Ravitz. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band’s The River Tour 2016 commemorates the release of the double album of the same name in 1980, and Bruce wanted the old vibe of yesterday to flow into his new shows today. A challenging idea, especially since fixtures and video equipment are light years ahead of where they were then. LD Jeff Ravitz has been working with The Boss since 1984, but he shuddered when the phrase “PAR cans” was bandied about. And video? Not much in 1980. PLSN looked at the lighting from Morpheus Lights and video production from Pete’s Big TVs on this current tour.

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Ultra Music Festival main stage photo by Adam Kaplan

Miami Ultra Music Festival 2016

Words cannot quite capture the visual extravaganza that is Miami Ultra Music Festival (UMF) 2016. Now in its 18th year, the hugely popular electronic dance music (EDM) event held annually on Bayfront in downtown Miami, played host to a sellout crowd of more than 165,000 over three days, from March 24-26. The event’s Main Stage, Carl Cox & Friends Stage and World Wide Stage would each be, by themselves, impressive enough to anchor a major music festival. Combined and extended by other stages, including the U.S. debut of the flame-shooting Arcadia Spider on the Resistance Stage, the Ultra Music Festival retains its perch as a world-class blockbuster event.

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Mythos light used as FOH spots pick out Pete Wentz. Photo by Justin Segura

Robb Jibson is Just So Midwest

Fall Out Boy Wraps Up a Two-Year Tour with a Fresh Look

It’s been about 20 years since Robb Jibson graduated from high school and got his tail back to Chicago, the town he loves and swears his allegiance to. He’s been practicing lighting ever since, and from what I saw at the Fall Out Boy (FOB) show the other night in Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, MN, he has mastered his skill. Even as he claims, “I’m never done building this show. I will be refining it until the last gig.”

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