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WI Creations designs rotating system for Malú

WI Creations designs rotating system for Malú
WI Creations designs rotating system for Malú

Belgian based engineering and automation specialist WI Creations has designed and fabricated a bespoke rotating system to hold and rotate five large scenic objects for the ‘Caos’ tour by Spanish singer Malú. WI’s Geert Stockmans project managed the automation elements of the set after the company was contacted by production manager Manuel Bustamante, with whom they worked earlier on an Alejandro Fernandez tour, also supplying customised lighting pods that moved.

 

Four of the five moving objects measured 1.9 metres wide by 3.80 high with the centre one at 3.8 metres wide by 3.80 high, and all were constructed from a trussing frame clad with 20 mm pitch LED panels on one side and a matrix arrangement of Robe Pointe moving lights on the reverse - nine fixtures each on the smaller ones and 18 on the large pod.

 

The free-standing floor bases were made from a selection of WI’s standard rental stock trussing combined with special adaptors, feet anchoring them to the floor and one of WI’s rotating elements mounted in the base. Once the basic methodology was established, WI designed and fabricated the trussing frames to which the LED panels and the moving lights were rigged. The rotators were controlled using Kinesys Vector automation software.

 

A full test set-up had been completed at WI’s warehouse facility and workshop in Heist-op-den-Berg prior to delivering the system to production rehearsals in Madrid. Integral to the package were touring dollies. WI’s engineers provided on-site training for the show’s crew to operate and maintain the system.

 

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