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Corona: Robe iPointes illuminate GlasGlow3

GlasGlow3 was an illuminated trail event, conceived and produced by event specialist Itison and staged at Glasgow Botanic Gardens. It ran for two and a half weeks in October and November 2020 featuring a fully COVID-compliant 1.5 kilometre socially distanced walking trail featuring numerous lighting works, installations, and adventures.

Lighting designer Grant Anderson was one of a core creative team comprising Itison’s Oli Norman, set designer Kenneth Macleod and composer Kevin Murray who wrote and compiled the soundscape for this project. With a superhero central narrative to the trail, Anderson chose 60 x Robe iPointes to be key ‘hero’ luminaires within his dynamic site-wide lighting design for GlasGlow3. The iPointes’ beams of light would be visible from across Glasgow in the right weather conditions.

2020 was the third year of the event. Anderson also lit last year’s GlasGlow and this year it took on new significance and resonance for local communities as so many public events have been cancelled due to the pandemic. GlasGlow 2020 was the most advanced yet in terms of integrated guest experience. Every illuminated piece around the trail - which took about 60-90 minutes to complete via a one-way system - was related to “The Power Within”, a world of darkness from which heroes could rise up and discover the light.

The trail site was divided into five zones, with a central music theme running throughout, with stems from this used to create individual soundtracks for the different display/installation areas. Anderson designed lighting for the entire trail, which was slightly shorter in the previous year because it was not possible for guests to go inside the glasshouses due to COVID restrictions.

The principal area for iPointes was the ‘UFO crash site’, a staged area and key part of the story. The lightshow here was designed around a two-and-a-half-minute looped audio sequence played out with illumination lighting. The iPointes were arranged in two concentric trussing circles - to mimic the shape of the UFO set piece - the inner circle measuring 10 metres diameter and rigged with 15 x iPointes and the outer at 15 metres in diameter, loaded with 30 x iPointes.

This 360-degree configuration of equally spaced iPointes gave Anderson the chance to programme fluid geometric shapes and transitions that impacted across the whole site. People across the city could see the beams reaching across the sky, which was particularly effective on damp foggy nights proliferated with low cloud.

The UFO was further lit with LED PARs and a field of custom LED pixel tubes surrounding it, all controlled via a GrandMA2 light console in a central control cabin which was hooked into a fibre network running site-wide incorporating general lighting, CCTV, point-of-sale areas, etc. In addition, the UFO, four iPointes were positioned around the entranceway and used for sky-tracker searchlight effects, and five sat on the roof of the Kibble Palace with another five around the front of the structure. Twelve Robe BMFL Spots were positioned inside the Kibble Palace which was closed to the public this year to ensure that people kept moving along the trail.

The final four iPointes were rigged on a run of truss at the ‘back’ of the gardens, and they were positioned so Anderson could complete an animated network of beam effects emanating from all areas of the park shooting out across and above the city. The iPointes and all the other lighting fixtures involved in the event were supplied by Hawthorn, project managed for the rental company by Stephen Reid.

(Photos: Carlo Paloni)

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