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Muziekgieterij Maastricht relies on Robe

Muziekgieterij is a music hub in the southern Netherlands city of Maastricht with two live performance spaces that showcase a varied artist lineup featuring all genres of music. Other music-related facilities at the site include a studio and rehearsal rooms.

The 1100-capacity large hall and 420-person small hall are both now fully equipped with Robe moving lights, with packages specified by chief lighting technician Mathieu “Mat” Huveneers and his team. During the pandemic, regular livestreams were broadcast from the studio. Muziekgieterij initially opened in 2007 and has been on its current former “Sphinx” ceramic factory site on the outskirts of the city since 2013, with the large hall built from scratch in 2019. The venue now stages an average of seven live shows a week including a full weekend programme.

The first Robe lights associated with the venue - a set of ex-rental ColorSpot 575ATs - had arrived back in 2009 and were retired in 2023. In 2019, with the completion of construction of the large hall, twelve Esprites, forty-four LEDBeam 150s and twelve Spikies were delivered by Robe’s Benelux distributor Controllux. The twelve Esprites went into the main hall along with six of the LEDBeam 150s and the twelve Spikies which make up the floor package, with the balance of the LEDBeam 150s going into the small hall together with six ParFects.

The small hall lighting rig was working well for DJ shows and dance parties, but they still needed some beam/spot lights for the space. Just before summer 2023, Controllux’s Maikel Sakkers rocked up with some prototype Robe Paintes, which the team - including lighting technicians Axel Moors and Petri Veerkamp - were able to test and evaluate in situ. Shortly after came the decision to purchase eight Paintes for the small hall.

Crew shot (left to right): Lighting technicians Axel Moors and Petri Veerkamp with chief lighting technician Mathieu Huveneers. (Photos: Louise Stickland/Paul Clarke/Harry Heuts)

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