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Robe illuminates Transmission Prague

In 2019, dance music fans returned to the O2 Arena in Prague for the ‘Transmission’ trance party. Lighting designer Bas Kemper’s spec featured over 100 Robe moving lights, with 72 x MegaPointes, 19 x BMFL Blades and 48 x LEDBeam 150s incorporated into the rig.

Kemper works closely with a diverse team - including Ondrej Bylok and visual artists Vision Impossible who develop the show narrative and create all the screen content - to bring the production alive, uniting all the technical disciplines of lighting, lasers, video and staging.

This show’s concept featured a semi-circular stage design - which Kemper had conceived earlier in the year - and a storyboard based around the universe, space travel and exploration - a theme that emanated from the physical stage design.

Lighting, LED screens and lasers for the show were delivered by Slovakian rental company Ministry Rental Service, owned and managed by Rudo Tucek. The event was production managed by United Music’s Anco van der Kolk - also Transmission’s founder - and production manager Cyril Horanek.

Five prominent portrait-orientated LED screens followed the convex arc of the stage that gave Bas Kemper the starting points for his lighting layout. The main goal, in addition to creating the most trancey atmosphere, was to ensure that everyone around the 270-degree viewing angle created by the stage had a good view, and could see and experience the effects from all around the O2.

Seventy-two of the MegaPointes were rigged in between the screens in 12 vertical rows of six.The 48 x LEDBeam 150s were all rigged in four long trusses that traversed the sides of the stage. They were arranged in square-shaped arrays of four.

As well as lighting the stage and the audience, for this event Bas Kemper specifically had lights rigged on top of the four long house trusses which could be pointed to the roof and work in the ceiling void.

In addition to all the Robes, Kemper utilised around 400 other lighting fixtures - some more moving lights, strobes, blinders, LED floods and some active Sunstrips together with shed loads of MDG haze.

The fixtures were operated by Kemper’s regular FOH lighting team of Zis Ankone and Martijn Deenen. Xavier from AVM co-ordinated all the SFX, while Rado and Adam from Ministry looked after the lasering.

Transmission’s live show sound is designed by Czech DJ Driftmoon (Juraj Klicka) who also composed last year’s Transmission anthem, together with Giuseppe Otiviani. At the O2 they used a Funktion One system supplied by Audio Plus.

(Photos: Louise Stickland)

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