ETC London was brought into the mix by set and visuals designer Bart Clement, who is working for the band for the first time. Clement is known for being inventive and original when it comes to defining stage environments, and this one was no exception. He created a giant 17m high by 30 wide curved wave-like back wall and projection surface from nearly 400 aluminium cubes covered in white Polystretch fabric.
Clouseau's main cube projection surface was made by WiCreations, and is fed by 12 of ETC's Christies, configured as two flown stacks of three focussed on the centre of the screen, with two more either side of stage on the deck, mounted in short towers. Two additional stacks of three projectors per side are straight hung and cover left and right IMAG projection areas. Each screen is fed by one OnlyView control server.
Using OnlyView, ETC's own control platform, the programming/operating team of Phil Pieridis and Briony Margetts are also taking in three live HD camera feeds supplied by Alphacam from video director Hans Pancake's live mix. These are split into the three main screen servers, allowing footage to appear either as one giant image on the central screen or as two individual feeds on the side screens - or across all three surfaces simultaneously. IMAG can also be intermixed with all the graphics and video playback material.
Video of one sort or another runs through most of the show. IMAG is mainly confined to the side screens, occasionally straying onto the central screen, but this area primarily features special video playback footage produced by Clement's team - including leading graphic artist Tom Hemerijk - that is loaded onto the OnlyView servers.
Sound and lighting equipment is being supplied by Belgian rental house EML, and Clouseau's LD is Luc Peumans.
(Jim Evans)
