AV rental and production company Fluge Audiovisuales supplied the Cuepix Panels for the Spanish leg of the tour, which kicked off in May and played large arenas and outdoor venues in every major city through October.
"The Cuepix Panels were an important element in the lighting design for this tour," stated Chus Fernandez, who created the lighting design for the show and also served as tour op. "We used them to reinforce different lighting scenes with their solid colors and also to create shapes, text and pixel-mapping effects that supported the video content that the LED video screens behind them were displaying."
Fernandez split 12 Cuepix Panels across four different truss lines above the stage. All four truss fingers had adjustable-speed Kinesys chain hoist motors attached to them, which allowed them to change their position (height and angle) at different stages of the show.
Fernandez liked the look so much the Cuepix Panels were used in nearly every song. "They're very versatile regarding the different design options possible," stated Fernandez, who was using the fixtures for the first time. "The concentric distribution of the Cuepix Panels in this design, in arrays of three units per truss line above the stage, and the added flexibility of using variable-speed chain motors to move those truss lines during the show, was very satisfactory for us and allowed for varied and distinctive lighting looks throughout the concerts."
Fluge, which operates branches across Spain as well as in Panama City and Shanghai, supplied all of the lighting, audio and video equipment for the tour and also furnished the crew necessary to run each concert smoothly. "When I originally saw the intended lighting design for the tour I quite frankly thought the Cuepix Panels would be more of a 'filling' lighting element," said Fluge tour technical project manager Dani Sanchez. "But once I got to see them in action they were an integral and important element of both the lighting and the video design of the tour."
(Jim Evans)
