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CPL supports Dyson’s end of year party

Central Presentations Ltd (CPL) delivered full production, including lighting, sound - featuring D&B Y8s and V-Subs - video and rigging to an end of year party for technology designer/manufacturer Dyson, which was staged in the grounds of Bowood House in Wiltshire, where a Trispan marquee was giving a 45 metre deep and wide party space.

CPL have been the event’s technical supplier for the last five years, commissioned by production company Bright. This year their production designer and technical manager was Nick Diacre who liaised with CPL’s PM Mike Radford. ‘Luminescence’ was the theme of this year’s event, putting a big emphasis on lighting and visual presentation and treatment of the whole environment.

CPL flew a 10 metre diameter circular truss in the middle of the main room on six ProLyft 650Kg motors, rigged on six structural arms making up the inner tent frame. This provided a central point for lighting positions.

Also rigged on this circle was a Panasonic 21K projector beaming on to a custom 17 metre wide by 10 metre high curved screen from J&C Joel, installed at one end of the space, video mapped using a combination of Mad Mapper and Resolume running on a pair of MacBook Pros.

A central stage was built beneath the circular truss and used for a series of Awards presented earlier in the evening followed by a performance by LED percussion troupe Spark!, after which it became the dancefloor hub. Another stage towards the back of the space hosted a DJ and band for the whole evening.

The lighting design, created by Liam Griffiths, included 8 x ADJ UV LED COB Canons, flown from the main circle and a further 6 flown from 1.5 metre trusses dead-hung below each of the 6 outer tent arms. These arms were also rigged with a Clay Paky Mythos moving light, a Sharpy beam light and 2 x Martin PAR Zooms per length.

Floor mounted at the base of each of these truss sections was a VariLite VL3000 Spot, firing light up onto the white tent roof creating more textures and effects. Four Martin Jem compact hazers assisted with the atmospherics.

Positioned on the stage itself were six Clay Paky A.leda K10 LED wash fixtures fitted with B-Eye lenses and another four Mythos as well as some of the new GLP Impression X4 Bar 10 and Bar 20 tilting LED battens, mounted vertically, made available via A.C. Entertainment Technologies Ltd. Arri 650 Watt fresnels flown on the circle and the two tent arms nearest the stage provided general wash lighting for both stages.

All lights were programmed and operated by James Washer using a Chamsys MQ100 console. The new D&B audio kit, used for the main PA, came to site directly after it had been delivered to CPL’s warehouse in the West Midlands. Five Y8 speakers and one Y-Sub were ground-stacked each side of the stage creating the main Left and Right Array, whilst four V-Subs under the stage itself provided a substantial sub-array.

The system was driven by D&B D12 amps, with one cab per channel, and mixed through a Yamaha QL1 console. CPL’s audio crew used the R70 Can interface to utilise the D&B Array Calculator and Array Processing software controlling each individual amp channel and providing improved control over the system.

Light Initiative created two major sculptural LED lighting installations using LED strip tape - one in the middle of the room spanning across the central trussing, and two behind the bars - plus their own control processors and fed with video content from Resolume.

Mike Radford worked with a crew of six - two each for sound, lighting and video departments.

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