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Robe supports Monumental Tour in France

The Monumental Tour is a visual and musical concept initiated by DJ and music producer Michael Canitrot and visual activists AV-Extended in conjunction with French cooperative bank Credit Mutuel, which encompasses streamed electronic music performances and collaborations with monumental sites all around France.

Cédric Davignon of Bordeaux-based creative practice Electron Libre Design designed lighting for the first digital gig of the tour, staged at the Phare des Baleines (Lighthouse of the Whales) on the Ile de Ré, which is off the west coast of France near La Rochelle. Davignon chose to work with 10 x Robe Spiiders and 13 x MegaPointes moving lights to create his lighting design which complemented large-format projections beamed onto the newer of the two Ile de Ré lighthouses, transforming its octagonal tower and base building below into a kinetic canvas for the performance.

Davignon elucidates that the goal with lighting was “very much to support” the video mapping and reinforcement of the music and video. He wanted to add more depth to the overall picture and energise the interior of the lighthouse making it “come alive” with the help of the Spiiders which were located on the ground in front of the building. Working closely with the content produced by Jeremie Bellot and the AV-Extended crew, Davignon utilized the Spiider’s Flower Effect to create “panning” effects that picked up and accented the movement of the projected visuals.

Twelve MegaPointes were positioned - 6 a side - on the roof of the lighthouse base building to punch through the night sky. The thirteenth MegaPointe was deployed on the ground aligned with the geometric centre of the lighthouse a few meters away from the building. It shot directly up the tower illuminating the six centrally positioned windows that grace the mast. Davignon also created other MegaPointe effects utilizing the multi-faceted prisms and the gobo beam reducer to maximize the volume of the light.

This helped highlight the massive light source at the top, visible from up to fifty kilometres out to sea, and pinpointed the DJ booth that was positioned on the balcony around the top of the tower, from which Michael Canitrot mixed his set. Davignon programmed and ran the lighting using a GrandMA2 console, and the event’s lighting equipment was supplied by Groupe AES with video delivered by the Bordeaux branch of event technology specialist Léni.

This mix of electronic music, history and architecture was broadcast on the Monumental Tour website and several other platforms including Robe France’s Facebook page. The tour and the concerts are designed to raise awareness of the importance of preserving heritage through entertainment, live music, and art. Four more Monumental Tour digital concerts are planned over the next three months, with the next stop being Mont-Saint-Michel.

(Photos: Wozniak/Dimworks/Dimitri Baret)

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