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Korn lighting designer chooses Ayrton fixtures

Korn lighting designer chooses Ayrton fixtures
Korn lighting designer chooses Ayrton fixtures

Alt-Metal band Korn was busy crossing and re-crossing the Atlantic last summer, firstly headlining the 17-date ‘Serenity of Summer’ tour in North America, before crossing over to Europe for a festival run and then back to the US for further leg on home territory.

 

Korn lighting designer, Thomas ‘Church’ Christmann, elaborates on the details: “There were a huge number of Ayrton DreamPanel-Twin fixtures on this design, along with a supporting number of Ayrton NandoBeam-S9 and NandoBeam-S3 units, 15 MagicBlade-FX and half a dozen MagicRing-R9 fixtures. As this outing was split, design-wise, into three different sections, it was important to pick fixtures that were versatile and could adapt to our differing stage settings.

 

“For example, after the ‘SOS’ tour in North America, the European festival leg featured a new version of the central stair riser MagicPanel-R design we did the year before, and for the last US run we reinstated the ‘SOS’ ‘pods’ but this time sitting on stage framed by Nandobeam-S3 and MagicBlade-FX. With the summer dates we wanted to go a step further in both design and look. The introduction of the DreamPanel-Twin allowed us to combine two different types of stage effects: lighting fixtures and video.”

 

Church arrayed 64 MagicPanel-Twin fixtures in four 4x4 ‘pods’ which he rigged as an upstage wall above the band. “We also combined the video screen of the MagicPanel-Twin fixtures with video projection onto our white cabinets we stacked up behind the band,” says Christmann. He also located 20 NandoBeam-S3 upstage of the band at floor level, and added a row of 15 MagicBlade-FX fixtures along the top of the cabinets, using both sets of fixtures as support for the main stage design in all spaces.

 

Six MagicRing-R9 units were rigged on the upstage truss which was flown relatively low between the cabinets and the pods. Finally, the Nandobeam-S9 fixtures were hung on the downstage truss and provided the front wash. “I inserted video and light partly just as a backlight to give the pods another dimension,” adds Christmann, “but the video enabled us to underscore the moods of the songs. I used the pixel mapper on my console to work with the LED side of the DreamPanel-Twins.”

 

(Photos: 2017 Todd Kaplan)

 

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