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Elation IP-rated lights for Puscifer’s Arcosanti performance

Colorado production house Brown Note Productions was hired by Danny Wimmer Presents to provide audio, lighting and video production for a special online performance by alt-rock band Puscifer from experimental town Arcosanti in the high desert of Arizona. Lighting designer Sarah Landau turned to an IP-rated rig of Elation lighting.

Landau has designed for Puscifer since 2016 and handled production design for the Arcosanti event along with Puscifer guitarist and producer Mat Mitchell. Puscifer, known for their eclectic live productions, performed their new album “Existential Reckoning” across a 3-day shoot September 24-26 from the arcology site. The stream was released on October 30th.

“The show took place in three acts in three locations around Arcosanti to showcase both the desert environment, as well as its epic experimental architecture”, explains Landau. “The first night of shooting, two songs were performed in the amphitheatre (Location 1), but with the band facing upstage and the tiered audience seating as the backdrop. Then, incorporating the production elements in a different arrangement, acts 2 and 3 used an in-the-round set of scaffolding with the band separated into quadrants by blow-through video walls. This second plot was built twice, in two locations over two days: first underneath massive concrete arches (Location 2), and then in the desert overlooking a canyon and the Arcosanti buildings (Location 3).”

The performance, which was filmed with multiple cameras, was embellished with dynamic lighting, video graphics and fog effects. The lighting setup included eight Proteus Maximus LED Profile moving heads used as key/front lights from trusses outside the playing circle for Locations 2/3 while four floor-positioned units worked as low sidelights in Location 1.

Forty-two Proteus Rayzor 760 LED wash moving heads were the main workhorses of the rig, used for backlight and eye candy. The fixtures were positioned on the floor in rows up the amphitheatre’s seats with five used as individual floor backlights for band members in Location 1. In Location 2 and 3, Rayzor fixtures hung from the scaffolding and truss and also served as band floor backlights.

Twelve SixPar 100 IP LED lights were used as uplights for the arches in Location 2, and for the buildings in the distance in Location 3. Six battery-powered Volt Q5E LED wash lights provided uplighting for trees in Location 2, and for the low brush and bushes in Location 3.

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