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| Avolites consoles were specified extensively
for lighting control in the majority of arenas at Global Gathering 2008, one of
the UK’s leading dance festivals, staged at Long Marston Airfield near Stratford
on Avon, Warwickshire. The stunning visual design that united lighting, digital and video sources into one seamless atmospheric experience for all 5 arenas and 3 terraces, was created by Nick Jevons and Phil Winward of Electric Fly Productions. Site wide lighting equipment was supplied by Blackburn-based HSL, and crew from both companies collaborated closely to ensure that it was one of the most visually memorable Global events to date. The 7 arena/terrace Avolites consoles included two Diamond 4s, two Pearls and three Tigers. Jevons says, “Avolites is the ultimate festival console – nothing else offers the flexibility or ease of use for the hands-on, live operational style that’s required at these type of events …. so it was an absolute no-brainer!” |
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| Global/Godskitchen In the 12,000 capacity Global/Godskitchen arena, Nathan Wan programmed and operated the in-the-round lighting design – which included 40 Robe ColorWash and Spot 2500E AT moving lights, 18 Hungaroflash strobes and 16 bars of 6 PARs. His Diamond 4 Elite was also driving the Maxedia Compact media server run by Jake Jevons, feeding video content to 48 Barco MiTrix touring panels. Artists performing included Tiesto, Judge Jules, Sasha, Armin Van Buren, Ferry Corsten and many more. |
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| Stealth/Random Concept Across the site in the Stealth/Random Concept Arena, Tim Williams ran an Avolites Pearl Expert console which was driving a spectacular 10 metre “wall of death” constructed from 240 PAR cans in 20 pieces of pre-rigged truss. The aesthetics were carefully developed to accentuate the rich Old Skool vibe of this tent. The PARs are being run via video content from a media server triggered by the Pearl. Topping each piece of pre-rig was a huge special fuzz light. Sixteen strobes were scattered between the stage and audience trusses, and the retro ambience completed with 20 High End Cyberlight Turbos hung on the over-audience trussing. |
 Toby Hogarth |
Polysexual/Cocoon A ground support system was used to rig 3 concentric goal posts over the stage, which were clad in low resolution CK iColor tiles. The stage and audience lighting was a combination of 24 Robe ColorSpot and ColorWash 700E ATs and 12 Martin Professional Atomic strobes. All of this, and a Hippotizer digital media server feeding the iColor tiles, was run via a Pearl Expert operated by Toby Hogarth. |
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| Bedrock/Spectrum The eye-catching architectural elements in this tent were 3 shrinking-perspective trussing semi-circles, loaded with 240 Pulsar ChromaStrip LED tubes, evoking a crazy starburst LED effect. Instead of running these through a media server, the RGB control of each individual strip was harnessed through the console, allowing operator Mark Jones to take full advantage of the Avo Diamond 4’s shape generation facilities, so it effectively became as effective as a media server. He also made the most of other D4 effects like dimmer and colour spreads. The D4 was also controlling 26 Robe moving lights onstage and 8 over the audience, plus 12 Atomic strobes. Terraces Three Avo Pearl Tigers in stand alone mode were utilised to run the 3 open air Terrace areas designed by Electric Fly – Mixmag, Polysexual and Raveology/Air. They were controlling an assortment of fixtures including Martin Stage Bars and SmartMAC 150s, Coemar SuperCycs, JTE PixelLines, Atomic strobes and plasma screen content. All these stages featured a mix of DJs and live acts. Global Gathering joins a long list of Avolites controlled festivals – an application in which the brand excels as the most popular for busking, hands-on, live improvised operation. |
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Date of issue : 27th July 2008 For more press info. on Avolites, please contact Louise Stickland on +44 (0)1865 202679/+44 (0)7831 329888 or Email ‘louise@loosplat.com’. For more product and general info, or to contact Avolites direct, call +44 (0)208 965 8522 |
