Avalon is the brainchild of nightclub impresario Steve Adelman, and a legend behind many of the most famous nightspots of the past two decades. The club occupies the top two levels of the floating South Crystal Pavilion - a multi-faceted glass edifice designed by architect Moshe Safdie - and which forms part of the Marina Bay Sands complex.
The interior of the club is surrounded by glass walls and a ceiling which is 15m high at the point. The responsibility of overseeing the lighting, sound, and AV design was entrusted to Snipe Media, a Singapore-based design and consultancy company. Billy Magendran who helms Snipe Media, was called upon to come up with a solution for a multi-zone lighting scheme to be installed on the moving rig which is raised, lowered, and tilted throughout the night to generate the different lighting angles required of the lighting design.
The solution that Magendran decided upon was to have a full moving head design infused with 24 Clay Paky Sharpy, 18 Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPE 700, four Clay Paky Alpha Spot 300, and four Clay Paky Alpha Beam 300 luminaires. LED washes were also installed in the rig to colour up the trusses. The programmed combination of the LED washes and the Clay Paky moving heads were choreographed to create a dynamic and 'living' lighting rig that will not only provide full coverage of the dance floor but also from the sides and backstage areas.
The Clay Paky units were supplied by Acoustic & Lighting System, the regional distributor for Clay Paky.
(Jim Evans)
