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City 65 Music Festival lit by Robe

City 65 Music Festival lit by Robe
City 65 Music Festival lit by Robe

The Fort Gate at Fort Canning Hill in Singapore provided a backdrop for the 2018 City 65 Music Festival. Craig Burridge was asked to co-ordinate the Main Stage production and lighting design for the one day event by organisers Michael Spinks and Rachel Mason from City 65 Music Pte Ltd.

 

The main stage line-up featured five bands, three playing in daylight and the final two in the dark, for which Burridge used 50 Robe fixtures - 24 x Linees, 10 x ColorStrobes, 6 x PixelPatts and 10 x LEDWash 600s - on the rig.

 

The venue is managed by the National Parks, and there are some strict rules and regulations designed to protect the environment. No production elements can be within 2 metres of any tree, so the 9 metre wide by 8 metre deep stage was allocated a space between two, right in front of a ‘heritage tree’.

 

The 4-legged ground support was trimmed at 7 metres to maintain rectangular form to the stage, and 2 and 3 metre drop bars were used on the back ground support truss and 2 metre ones on the mid ground support truss, which enabled lights to be more dynamically positioned. Each drop bar was rigged with two Robe Linees and one PixelPatt.

 

Three LEDWash 600s were on both the mid and front trusses, with two more each side on the downstage edges of the floor, utilised as the main band washes. Four Robe ColorStrobes on the front truss made some blinders and Craig Burridge positioned two more on the ground behind the stage to illuminate the heritage tree and make it pop out.

 

Four 2-metre sections of vertical truss on the deck were each populated with three Linees and a ColorStrobe. The flown Linees and the PixelPatts were all hung on 2m & 3m drop bars. Burridge used the Linees in full pixel mode 3 but programmed as a light source rather than video mapped.

 

The PixelPatts were also placed to work as a stand-alone visual effect, rather than to light up the stage. Burridge programmed the chases so they appeared to rotate or move left/right and up/down. He operated all the lighting himself using a WholeHog FullBoar3.

 

For third on the bill, metal band Terminal Cry, who played in daylight, Burridge chose all-white lighting with lots of beams created from this selection of fixtures. They were followed by co-headliners The Steve McQueens which were lit primarily in pastel shades. By now it was getting darker so the Linees and Patts were used to fill the space with abstract flowing shapes.

 

Co-headliners Addy Cradle closed the show with a performance which Craig Burridge lit with lots of saturated colours onto the tree and from the flown LEDWash 600s, with the floor-based LEDWash 600s contrasting in warm or cold whites, while the Linees produced asymmetric static looks interspersed with pixel chases and layers of different shapes.

 

The lighting equipment was supplied by Singapore rental company CSP Productions.

 

(Photos: Peter Wintin)

 

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