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Corona: Online streaming DJ marathon lit with Chauvet

Robbe Verburgh wants more EDM DJs to start streaming. He’s created VR Stream, a complete mobile streaming solution in a van that allows DJs to do a show and get it up and running online from anywhere.

To promote his new service, Verburgh created a 21-hour streaming marathon in his backyard, or more precisely the warehouse of the company he works for, DV Sound. To draw attention to the event, which took place May 17 and 18, 2020, he lined up Gianni Foquaert (aka DJ Flavour Drop) as host of the event. Then, Verburgh retained the services of Cedric Duré, the teenage owner of Outdream.

Duré obliged and created an outpouring of pixel mapped movement and color that was supposed to never repeat itself as it wrapped around the sounds of 14 DJs over the two marathon sessions. Aiding him in this endeavor, expanding the visuals of his show, while at the same time framing it for smaller livestream screens, was a collection of 16 Chauvet Professional Épix Strip Tour linear fixtures supplied by DV Sound.

Arranging on truss in diamond pattern around the DJ stand, the one-meter long RGB strips accomplished the seemingly paradoxical task of expanding and framing the lightshow through a combination of performance features. Duré used the units to envelop the DJs in a radiant aura of light. In so doing, he kept the focus of his show on the artists even as he created kinetic motion around this diamond with the other fixtures in his rig. He ran his show on a ChamSys Maxi Wing and an Extra Wing Compact together with a 21-inch touchscreen.  

For added dramatic effect, Duré flashed the Épix fixtures between blackout mode and 100-percent output to convey a foreboding sense on stage. For variety, he also activated different cells of the 16-fixture configuration at various times to create a range of geometric patterns. “Sometimes I took the Resolume output from our VJ Stijn Van Nevel and used the LED wall together with the Épix strips to create a unified canvas,” he says.

In addition to Van Nevel who handled VJ duties as well as the control of the PTZ cameras, team members who contributed to the marathon included Nikolay Gelsthein, touring VJ for DIVS, one of the performing DJS who also recorded the event for promotional videos.

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