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Robe MegaPointes debut at Isracard event

Light architects Cochavi & Klein produced another lighting design for an event staged in Pavilion 2, Tel Aviv, Israel’s biggest venue. They were working for production company MPLive who delivered the event for financial services company Isracard.

The format was a gala dinner for around 2500 people, a live show featuring a line up of popular Israeli talent onstage including Infected Mushroom and others, culminating in a party. Eran Klein operated the lights working closely with stage designer Omer Israeli, Cochavi & Klein’s project manager Dor Aichner and video designer Rubi Saati of Studio Vega.

Israeli and Klein chose Robe moving lights - 12 x Mega Pointes (used for the first time live in Israel), 30 x Pointes, six Spiiders, eight BMFL Blades, eight 8 x BMFL Spots and three Patt 2013s - for on the rig. The Pavilion 2 venue is 120 metres long, 60 metres wide and has a 19 metre throw distance from the roof. The stage was set up along the long side of the room to help make the space more intimate, with the furthest away tables on raised platforms for improved site lines from the far reaches.

Omer Israeli’s idea was to have a futuristic ‘digital city’ stage design, complete with video skyline comprising ten different height and width towers, each part-filled with video panels for a more random appearance.

Upstage and downstage trusses were rigged above the stage, primarily to light the bands. A major special feature was a 60 metre long S-shaped gold chandelier, a piece of light art central to lighting the environment and constructed from two 10 metre diameter half-circles connected by a 30 metre run of straight truss, populated with a run of gold tubes and XXL squirrel-cage bulbs.

The eight BMFL Spots were used upstage at the back for beam work and effects behind the bands, with the eight BMFL Blades downstage providing key lighting utilizing the shutters. The Spiiders were positioned for doing cross and side lighting onstage from the two most downstage ‘city’ towers. Pointes were rigged on top of the ‘city’ towers, with the MegaPointes deployed in a line behind the musicians.

Other lighting fixtures included sun strips, strobes, magic blades, and blinders. Lighting, sound and rigging for the event was supplied by Israeli rental company Simul Argaman. Assisting in engineering were technical producer Itamar Bar Shavit and lighting crew chief Haim Makim. LED screens were supplied by ScreenLED, staging by Irgunei Bamot and the bespoke chandelier was constructed by Sami Chandelier to Omer Israeli and Eran Klein’s specification.

(Photos: Tomer Foltyn)

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