Robe helps Perpetuum celebrate 40 years
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With the assistance of substantial quantities of Robe moving lights, Crt created an impressive visual showcase, working closely with Mark Pirc, brought in as video content creator and co-show director with Aljaz Bastic for these special performances.
Crt has lit the group several times over the last 10 years, and specifically more regularly in the last two after as Blackout has become their permanent lighting design provider. In fact, Crt’s first proper arena design was 10 years ago with Perpetuum Jazzile for their 30th anniversary.
For this show, the basic elements of his programming from the last two years were taken as the starting point. Initial ideas for the 40th included a stage at 45% to the audience with a shallow thrust protruding in an arrow shape, and above that they wanted a circular truss, which Crt morphed into a triangular shape that more harmoniously mimics the shape of the deck below.
He then filled the 8m equilateral triangular truss above the performance space with lights rigged on sub trusses, creating a slightly Floydesque ‘monumental chandelier’ effect that provided multiple layers of lighting that could be stripped right back or fattened out, depending on the vibe of the song.
The concept dovetailed with the other visual aspects including the angled stage and an upstage 16 x 6m LED screen.
The lighting kit was mostly supplied by Ljubljana-based rental company, Intralite, with some pulled from the Cankerjev Dom’s house rig - which also features a lot of Robe fixtures. The numbers added up to eight Robe BMFLs, 24 x LEDBeam 150s, 16 x Fortes - part of a recent investment by Intralite - 10 x MegaPointes, 34 x Spiiders and 20 x ParFect 150s.
These luminaires constituted the majority of the lighting rig, together with 32 x LED strobes, 12 more LED PARs plus six of the venue’s own genuine Svobodas which were rigged on the triangle and created an ambience of their own.
Twelve of the Fortes were used for the primary back lights in a line upstage. While they looked like they were on a single truss, they were flown on a combination of house LX bars which are arranged in rows left, centre and right of the stage. The other four Fortes were utilised for side keys.
The eight BMFLs were positioned upstage on the floor and were the only rear lights from this low-level position.
The 10 x MegaPointes were placed inside the triangle, arranged in four rows in a 4-3-2-1 pattern, and they were used as high impact blocky light sources to complement and contrast with the Svobodas, a technique that worked well and dramatically.
The LEDBeam 150s outlined the structure of the triangular truss, eight fixtures on each of the three structural truss pieces creating the shape.
The 18 x Spiiders formed the main stage wash looks, with six doubling up as the principal key lighting for the soloists and guest singers.
Six ParFect 150s toned the triangle with another four boosting the side lighting positions for the solo singers when standing on their downstage marks. Another 10 augmented the audience lighting, so plenty of colour and energy could be added to the audience looks for the broadcast wide shots.
Crt and his team at Blackout regularly specify Robe fixtures for their projects. The brand has a very strong presence in the Slovenian market thanks to the proactivity of Ljubljana-based distributor, MK Light Sound.
