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Chauvet Rogue fixtures chosen for Pigeons Playing Ping Pong live show

For jam band Pigeons Playing Ping Pong’s two-set gig at the Avondale Brewing Company in Birmingham, Alabama, lighting designer Manny Newman specified 18 Chauvet Professional Rogue fixtures in the band’s own touring rig.

He arranged six Rogue R1 Spot fixtures across a 16-foot truss as part of the ground package, and hung twelve Rogue R1 Wash units on four Global Truss Quick Grids. Working this road package with the house rig, he unleashed a stream of looks across the stage’s backdrop that invited imagination.

“Usually during the second set I like to do psych looks on the back wall for certain jams”, says Newman. “At Avondale, I did this with light and gobos rather than video, because I don’t like to shoot media in people’s faces. I want people to create their own mental image of what a song means to them. For example: when we play the song ‘Poseidon’, any normal video guy would probably do something with waves or an actual image of Poseidon, but in my case, I don’t want to, because Poseidon might mean something completely different to the listener. It may represent something deep in that person’s life.”

Newman also made liberal use of white during the show, sometimes using it to envelop the band in a fan of light. “During peaks of jams I tend to go all white”, he says. “I like to look at the progression of brightness like the fret board of a guitar. As the musician is going up in the fretboard, the notes get higher as well as brighter. For me, I like to complement that from darker to brighter with dimmer and color. So, white is the natural choice for the peak of the jam.”

(Photos: Kendall McCargo)

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