Aktuelle News & Schlagzeilen

Elation IP-rated rig for The Brooklyn Mirage

The Brooklyn Mirage is an open-air live music venue located in the heart of New York City’s most populous borough. The sanctuary in the East Williamsburg area of Brooklyn recently re-opened after a 15-month hiatus and now greets live music fans with an IP-rated lighting package from Elation Professional.

The Brooklyn Mirage lies in the Avant Gardner complex, an 80,000 square foot site that occupies an entire city block. The complex includes an indoor space, The Great Hall, and an intimate club space called The King’s Hall, as well as the outdoor The Brooklyn Mirage. Multi-tiered, Brooklyn Mirage includes a balcony that encircles the courtyard, as well as a fourth level overlook called The Crown. The venue hosts all types of events - corporate or private - but thrives as a bastion for electronic music lovers.

Stephen Wyker, head of production at Avant Gardner, handles lighting design at the Brooklyn Mirage. The new Elation package, installed in May for their summer 3-month season, consists of 16 Proteus Hybrid moving heads, 18 Paladin LED wash/strobe/blinders, 60 Cuepix 16IP DTW matrix LED blinders and effect panels, 28 DTW Blinders, and 12 SixPar 300 IP six-color PAR lights. Wyker worked closely with Elation rep firm The Healy Group on fixture choice for the venue with all units supplied by Gateway Productions of Newburyport, Massachusetts. The in-house team at Avant Gardner handled installation of the products.

The Brooklyn Mirage stage is 48-feet wide with an upstage truss and number of projection towers scattered about for AV gear. Eight Proteus Hybrids work from the towers with the remainder occupying the upstage truss together with Paladin units and the sixty Cuepix 16IP DTW. The rest of the Paladins are spread around the room as blinder/strobes. “For our opening weekend, we brought in an additional twenty Proteus Hybrids for a huge grid of Proteus right on the stage”, says Wyker.

The sixty Cuepix DTW fixtures - 4x4 white-light matrix LED blinder and effect panels used for pixel mapping - create a visual barrier on the upstage. The DTW 700 Blinders work from the projection towers to add additional warmth and dancefloor looks around the room. In what the lighting designer calls a type of audition, the twelve SixPar 300 IP lights are used for landscape lighting to highlight the courtyard’s plants and floral, a touch that reflects the venue’s theme of regenerate. With a public hungry for live entertainment, the Brooklyn Mirage has been busy hosting four shows a week throughout the summer.

(Photos: Elation Professional/The Brooklyn Mirage)

www.elationlighting.com

© 1999 - 2024 Entertainment Technology Press Limited News Stories