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Martin Kames designs lighting for his own art project’s debut music videos

Martin Kames designs lighting for his own art project’s debut music videos
Martin Kames designs lighting for his own art project’s debut music videos

Half of the two-member electronic/metal/pop art-project CueStack, who got together earlier this year to produce a string of debut music videos, is made up of Martin Kames, lighting designer and owner of Austrian-based rental and production company MartinKames.com. Kames worked double duty on the video shoots, operating behind the camera on lighting and set design then moving round front of the camera as vocalist and synth player.

 

The set-up featured the art project’s logo built as a gigantic stage made out of risers, trussing, set parts, and lots of lighting and effects. Used as the main visuals in all five music videos, Kames used a large number of intelligent lighting fixtures on the project. The set-up comprised several groups of fixtures including some 170 Elation Professional luminaires: 36 Sniper 2R multi-effect lights, 40 Lumina Matrix LED matrix panels, 16 Dartz 360 LED beam/spot luminaires, 48 Chorus Line 8 and 10 Chorus Line 16 pixel bar wash luminaires, and 20 Paladin hybrid effects. The Elation gear worked with other LED lights, as well as discharge moving heads, other effect lights and LED video displays.

 

The set-up’s main visual component was made up of Chorus Line LED pixel bars. “We used a lot of backlight in the venue in order to make the room look huge and had many of the lights illuminating the logo itself in a theatrical way,” Kames explains. The CueStack logo letters were also illuminated using warm-white Lumina Matrix panels and multi-functional Paladin lights.

 

Used as an essential part in the design to create unique looks for each of the five songs were Elation’s new Dartz 360 LED beam/spot fixtures with narrow three-degree beam, which Kames placed on the floor on each side of both musician risers. “We used LED panels along with the Dartz on the floor for overhead shots to make us look more a part of the set rather than just standing in front of it,” says Kames.

 

(Photos: Tom Zonyga/Ljubo Lukic)

 

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Martin Kames designs lighting for his own art project’s debut music videosMartin Kames designs lighting for his own art project’s debut music videos

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