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GrandMA3 lighting control system selected for Crush shows in Seoul

Korean record producer and singer-songwriter Crush recently played several concerts - in support of his latest album, “Wonderego” - at Seoul’s Jamsil Arena, for which Soyoun Lee designed, programmed and operated the lighting. Lee is currently working for Lite Factory in Korea, designing and programming shows for K-Pop music artists in Singapore and Korea. For the first time, she chose to run the lighting control on a full GrandMA3 system.

Lee had used the GrandMA3 console/hardware many times already (running in mode 2) and felt that this was a great time to “make the switch”, for which she prepared herself via online training videos and in-person training arranged by MA Lighting’s Asia Pacific base in Singapore.

The GrandMA3 lighting set up at the “Wonderego” concerts comprised one GrandMA3 full-size, one GrandMA3 light, one GrandMA3 processing unit XL, one GrandMA3 processing unit L and three GrandMA3 8Port Nodes, controlling a total of 329 lighting fixtures - a mixture of moving and static lights and LED fixtures and panels, all adding up to 17,685 parameters.

Lee used three main GrandMA3 features - Recipes, Selection Grid and Phasers - as the backbone of her workflow. She also likes Swipeys which offer swift access to the menu eliminating the need to manually input commands, and she also appreciated the timecode’s minus offset function so it can be adjusted back and forth as needed.

Inspired by the “Wonderego” album artwork, the show creative director Eddie Oh designed some triangular set risers complete with a thrust stage so Crush could get out close to his fans. He added five square shaped lighting pods flown downstage on an automation system bringing further elements of surprise to the show, and the central pod was used to elevate the artist.

To accentuate his idea, Lee added a truss mimicking the angles of the riser design above the A stage, populated with lights that could be utilised as lines or for surfaces. “Lighting can really help the artist communicate their stories and narrative”, she states.

(Photos: P Nation)

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