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Hippotizer Media Servers drive LED set strips at ESC 2021

A newly formed group of Hippotizer Media Servers worked for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) final, feeding lighting and visual data into LED strips and LED tape on the main stage, set pieces and in the “green room” artist area.

A Hippotizer Boreal+ served as lead in the band, driving all of the LED tape and strip colours on and around the main stage at Rotterdam’s Ahoy Arena. Second in command was a Hippotizer Karst+, which controlled all of the LED strips in the artist booths - where the live interviews took place - as well as the specials for selected performers on the night. The setup was complemented by a Karst and Karst+ Media Server as backup for the live finals. The kit had to feed around 800 universes of LED pixels.

Lighting designer for the ESC 2021 was Henk-Jan van Beek from Light-H-Art. Managing the Hippotizer line up was André Beekmans from The Art of Light, who worked alongside show lighting programmers Micky Dordregter, Robbert-Jan Vernooij and Erik-Jan Berendesen.

The whole light setup was controlled using GrandMA3 consoles running in MA2 mode, and all of the Hippotizer Media Servers were also controlled via this desk. Key light programmer was Joost Wijgers, with Bas Geersema serving as night shift programmer.

(Photos: André Beekmans/Nathan Reinds)

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