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Corona: Kingsize and Chauvet light Lukins’ Save Your Culture livestream

In 1923, the world’s first radio concert was broadcast from an experimental tower in Eberswalde, Germany. Today, almost a century later, a local music label, Lukins, is breaking through a new and different kind of barrier by organizing Save Your Culture, a series of livestream events that highlight Eberswalde artists and venues that have been impacted by the Covid-19 lockdown.

On April 21 and 23, these broadcasts, which are livestreamed on Facebook and YouTube, emanated from the city’s (temporarily closed) indoor climbing center Bloc48. Accentuating the distinctive climbing walls and innovative obstacles of the facility, while supporting the online show’s DJ performers, was a collection of Chauvet Professional Strike and Colorado fixtures supplied by Kingsize Events.

Christoph Neumann, Event Technology Specialist at Kingsize Events, used six Strike 1 and 16 Colorado Panel Q40 fixtures and ran the shows on his ChamSys MagicQ MQ80. Four DJs performed during the two livestreams. Drawing on the RGBW color mixing of the Colorado Panel Q40, which he controlled via WDMX, Neumann used the fixture to highlight Bloc48’s labyrinth of angled walls speckled by a quilt of protrusions.

“The Q40s were used to set a colorful setting within the room,” explains Neumann. “They were the basic light, if you want to say. The Strike 1 functioned as a practical effect. I used it for blinding effects - and also to create a second visual layer behind the DJ. Two Strike 1 were placed on the ground behind the DJ - simply because I ran out of tripods.”

With at least four cameras videoing each livestream show, Neumann had to take a different approach to lighting these events than he typically follows at festivals and other live performances. “Everything that looks amazing live doesn’t necessarily appear that way on camera,” he says. “With all the different camera angles, we had to make sure that the image looked perfect from a variety of perspectives. It was also very important to achieve the right depth effect. Without additional lighting for objects in the background, the image on the camera looks just flat and boring. So, for a streaming we use much more lighting than on regular jobs.”

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