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Elation lighting used across 2016 Nocturnal Wonderland festival

Elation lighting used across 2016 Nocturnal Wonderland festival
Elation lighting used across 2016 Nocturnal Wonderland festival

Nocturnal Wonderland took place over Labor Day weekend (September 2–4) at the San Manuel Amphitheater and Grounds in San Bernardino, California. Produced by Insomniac Events, headed by CEO Pasquale Rotella, thousands gathered to celebrate three days of electronic dance music. SJ Lighting handled production design on four of the five stages, with the help of Elation lighting gear supplied by Visions Lighting, AG Light & Sound and Felix Lighting.

 

The festival’s main stage, the progressive house Wolves’ Den, had a stacked horizontal LED screen design and lighting rig that included Elation Colour Chorus 72 LED battens and Elation’s white light Cuepix Blinder WW2. Stacks of Colour Chorus fixtures lined the horizontal LED screens, working together with a large center LED screen. Lighting supply, as well as video and rigging, was by AG Light & Sound, who also supplied 500 square meters of AG 8 mm LED video panels and 1,500’ of 20.5” truss. Because of an extremely tight load in schedule, the lighting, video and trussing was all prepped in the AG shop in Las Vegas and driven out fully assembled on flatbeds and then craned into place.

 

On the Labyrinth stage, electronic and bass beats emanated across an outdoor oasis and setup that included a series of bamboo pillars with the stage’s visual center, an LED circle display screen. Colour Chorus 72 fixtures and ELED QW Strips were used across the setup to light the scenic. Lumina Strips, LED-based batten lights with warm white LEDs, were used for linear looks. Big beam looks came from Elation’s Platinum BX moving head beam light. SixPar 300 LED PAR lights with 6-color LED multi-chip, including UV, added color to the set while compact Opti Tri Par fixtures were used for truss toning. Cuepix Blinder WW2 fixtures and Elation’s Protron 3K LED Strobe gave punches of white light when needed.

 

At Temple Noctem, the main set visual was a front-and-center gas mask in black light paint. Here, Elation’s hybrid Platinum FLX provided the moving beam looks with Protron 3K LED Strobes, ELED QW Strips, Cuepix Blinder WW2, SixPar 300s and Colour Chorus 72s also used in the design. Southern California-based production company Visions Lighting supplied lighting, video, rigging and staging for the Labyrinth and Temple Noctem stages.

 

Underground house sounds reigned at the Sunken Garden stage where a 9-foot mirror ball dominated the look. “We wanted to create an old nightclub feel, dark and moody, a real underground sub culture feel with no video,” says Steve Lieberman of SJ Lighting. The stage was set up under a tent structure with the disco ball used to reflect rays of light across the room. Felix Lighting supplied Platinum Beam 5Rs, ACL 360 Bar LED battens, ACL 360 Matrix LED moving head panels and LED-based Cuepix Panels for a pixel mapped design across the entire space. The ACL 360 Bars were mounted up and down on king poles and gave a linear look up the poles or could be turned 90 degrees for a different effect. Cuepix Panels covered the front of the DJ booth across the width of the stage, which together with a back wall moving head pixel display of ACL 360 Matrix panels created a flowing 8-bit digital display.

 

(Photos: Adam Kaplan/ASK Media Productions Inc.)

 

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