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Thomas Boets creates setting for Red Bull Elektropedia Awards with Chauvet

The massive art deco building bordering the Ixelles Ponds at the edge of the Place Flagey Square has been at the heart of Belgium’s musical and cultural history since it opened in the 1930s. It was within this structure’s ocher yellow sandstone walls that the country’s national broadcast service, BRT, was born.

Originally called Maison de la Radio, but now known simply as the Flagey, the building provided the setting for the 2018 edition of the Red Bull Elektropedia Awards, an all-Belgium annual event honoring rising stars and outstanding achievements in the country’s music scene. Thomas Boets of Light Design Productions created a lighting design for the event that included 380 pixel-mapped Épix Strip IP fixtures from Chauvet Professional, supplied by L&L Stage Service.

“The Flagey is iconic, and our show took place in the building’s Studio 4 (home of the Brussels Philharmonic), which gave us a very special setting to work in,” says Boets. A dramatic part of that setting is the massive organ on the back wall. Boets wanted to accentuate this scenic element, yet at the same time endow the stage with a techy digital vibe to reflect the flavor of the event. To do this he placed a portrait LED wall along the back of the stage, and in front of it positioned a curved LED raster with the Épix Strip IP fixtures. He also accented the stairs with LED lighting.

“The whole show was on a timeline and controlled via Art-Net from our console,” says Boets. “The award show also followed a fixed order of presentation/announcing the award presenter/announcing the category/announcing the winner/speech winner. For each component, there was also a specific animation on the Épix units.

“Sometimes, it was necessary to not use the strips in the show, so we could focus all the attention from the audience on the speakers. We chose to use black face filters in front of the strips. This way, when the strips weren’t on, they disappeared completely in the underlying support frames.”

With the 380 Épix Strip IP fixtures placed horizontally and vertically, Boets found it more efficient to assign each one its own universe. This brought the total number of universes in his show to over 400 when other light fixtures are included.

On this project, Thomas Boets worked closely with Francis Weyns of Jet Imports, video specialists Jo Pauly and Sander de Schrijver, light operator Frederik Heerinckx, Bonanza director Fred Di Bono, production manager Geert Delbaere from Satisfactory, and content creators Pieter de Kegel and Filip Joos.

(Photos: Simon Leloup)

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