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Corona: Chauvet fixtures used for Kayzo livestream

The Covid-19 outbreak brought plans for Kayzo’s ‘Unleashed Tour’ - scheduled to begin March 27 in Denver with stops across the USA, before wrapping up May 9 in Seattle - to a halt, just as it was about to begin. Determined to reach fans despite the lockdown, the former ‘Insomniac Discovery Project’ winner teamed up with 4Wall Entertainment to livestream the ‘Unleashed Tour’.

The 16-universe Dallas Gasper-designed lightshow for Kayzo’s two-hour performance (which was hosted by Insomniac) featured Chauvet Professional Maverick MK3 Wash fixtures and Cloud 9 low lying foggers. “Our team was gearing up to start this tour when the entire industry had to go into shutdown,” recalls Gasper. “Instead of postponing the project we decided to build a version of the touring rig and livestream it for the fans at home from our warehouse in L.A.”

Although the livestreamed show didn’t have the full complement of musicians that was planned for the live tour, it held nothing back in the way of complexity, mixing a blend of old school looks with modern touches, and weaving in drumming segments, while still keeping focus on the DJ star.

The stage Kayzo and his drummer, “The Rook”, performed on was set up in 4Wall Entertainment’s Los Angeles warehouse. This gave Gasper enough space to build a full production rig, but since there was no rigging available, his design had to be entirely ground supported. With no audience present, he staggered fixtures in configurations that allowed him to create a sense of depth on camera.

The eight Maverick MK Washes in Gasper’s rig were arranged in a V-shaped pattern around the drummer. The RGBW moving fixtures were also used as key lights and for eye candy effects. “The output and color mixing ability of the MK3s also served as a way to highlight the Cloud 9 low lying foggers,” says Gasper, who had two of the foggers in his rig.

Showcasing the drummer, who was an important part of Kayzo’s hybrid rock and EDM show, without pulling focus from the DJ star himself, was an issue that Gasper had to address in his design. Towards the end, he raised the DJ booth six-feet above the stage deck and built a video façade across the downstage portion of the set.

“Instead of just doing one big massive upstage LED, we framed Kayzo and the drummer with truss arches wrapped in lighting and filled with video,” explains Gasper. “This allowed us to have a large video canvas without it being flat and boring.”

“We wanted to give the audience something that was as close to a real show as we could get,” he continues. “This meant going full production, as big as we possibly could. I learned really quickly that operating lights for broadcast and cameras is completely different than busking live for a festival or concert. Many big ‘hits’ and ‘bumps’ blew out the cameras, so I had to adjust group masters while paying attention to the program feed.”

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