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Pretty Lights on tour with Robe fixtures

Atlanta-based lighting designer Greg Ellis used 36 x Robe Spikies and 14 x Robe BMFL Spots for his lighting rig on Pretty Lights’ US tour. The "Episodic Festival Tour" comprised five 2-day experiences staged over different weekends at locations around the U.S., including Telluride in the Rocky Mountains, and Red Rocks Amphitheatre, both in Colorado, as well as Chicago, Nashville and New Hampshire.

The rig didn't change but the idea was to embrace the different surroundings each time and Ellis’ task was to give each one a special and significant ambience. The Spikies were arranged in clusters of four - ACL style - 24 on six ground-supported towers upstage, with three more 4-way clusters on the video trusses, all creating a box around the band.

The BMFLs were positioned on the over stage trusses which were four small fingers, a middle and upstage truss and a header truss, with some BMFLs on the floor. The design split most of the different types of lights up in their positioning to give a cleaner and more effective look.

Lighting was supplied by the DSI Event Group based in Denver, with whom Greg Ellis has a long working relationship. Ellis also designed and operated video - running via three separate media servers - for the shows plus lasers.

Upstage a 30 x 10 ft video wall introduced a cinematic element, and all the flown trusses - 4 for lighting and 2 for media - were clad with video headers. This was made up from Roe Hybrid 15, a 15 mm pitch product with a layer of integrated 150 W LED light-sources that can also be fed with video, so lightscapes as well and ‘conventional’ video playback can be created utilizing the same video material.

(Photos: Taylor Wallace/aLive Coverage)

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