Lighting designer Al Gurdon dazzled the audience with an array of looks from soft and subtle ballads to rock and punk, accented by LED screens embedded in the floor and providing a constantly evolving backdrop to the stage. Providing media technology and kinetic lighting effects was Entertainment Technology Concepts GmbH. Volker Suhre, CEO, selected LumenRadio as their wireless partner for the event.
The CRMX technology was used in the show to provide links to difficult to get to locations, including fixtures placed at audience level within the centre of the arena - right amongst the 10,000 audience members.
Senior R&D engineer at LumenRadio, Michael Karlsson, commented, "It's always a pleasure to be involved in huge projects like this - wireless frequencies are at a premium in an event like this and the team at Eurovision wanted a solution they could trust and of course they turned to LumenRadio. We were more than happy to oblige."
The contest saw Sweden's Mans Zelmerlöw's Heroes take the top spot, with 365 points. Beamed to an estimated 180m viewers live on TV. The LumenRadio team are already looking forward to next year's contest, on home soil.
(Jim Evans)
