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Onedot chooses Chauvet for Lumen Festival Montreal

Lighting a festival in a former power plant kind of lends itself to electrifying images. The team at Onedot certainly thought so. They took this inspiration and flew with it during Montreal, Canada’s three-day Lumen Festival that Produkt produced at New City Gas, a site that traces its roots back to a 1849 generating station.

The hard-edged venue still bears witness to its industrial heritage, and the designers at Onedot played on this aura to create an intense, aggressive show with kinetic energy while supporting performances by Timmy Trumpet, Gordo, Adventure Club and other EDM acts.

Onedot’s design team hung illuminated bars on kinetic winches down from the vaulted ceiling over the dancefloor. Crossing over the room, these bars added to the raw edginess of the performances, carving up the overhead space with pulsating lines of color. The kinetic aspect also allowed the design team to shape and redefine the space at will during the performances. The monochromatic washes that immersed the room also set a transformative mood; at other times, the room took on a darker, moodier tone.

The large video wall that dominated the stage took the looks to the next level. Divided into vertical sections, the stage video backdrop displayed abstract geometric patterns which were often displayed in stark white against an icy blue background, embracing the visual signature of the festival.

Complementing the video element and tying it seamlessly to the rest of the room was a collection of 36 Chauvet Professional Color Strike M fixtures taken from CR34TE’s inventory. Almost half of the motorized strobe-washes were hung on vertical columns that ran between sections of the stage video wall. The remaining Color Strike units were arranged in the ceiling over the dancefloor.

“We positioned the Color Strike M units in an array to complement the powerful video elements on stage so we could continue the visual pattern throughout the room”, says Onedot’s Jean-Sébastien Guilmette. “The Color Strike Ms served us well as strobes and as color washes. We mapped individual pixels to create a wide variety of unique visual patterns. This really supported the video images very well.”

(Photos: Patrica Brochu)

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