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Ayrton Cobra, Huracán Profile and Ghibli light Amsterdam’s biggest EDM event

The Amsterdam Music Festival (AMF) is the biggest electronic dance music event of Amsterdam Dance Event which takes over the Dutch city annually each October. AMF’s popularity in its first year saw it move from the RAI Amsterdam to the 40,000 capacity Amsterdam Arena (now the Johan Cruiff Arena). Lighting designer, and owner of The Art of Light, André Beekmans chose a wealth of Ayrton Cobra, Huracán Profile and Ghibli fixtures to light the 2023 edition.

The show’s lighting and rigging were supplied by Ampco Flashlight with Light Specials providing the LED lines. The Art of Light operators - André Beekmans, Rik Verschuren, Kasper Dijksterhuis and Jaap Kamps - were responsible for programming, operating and facilitating all the guest operators for the event. Guest operators included Michael Seeverens as the touring LD for Armin van Buuren and Tom Pietermans with Afrojack whom they supported with positions, presets and any additional needs.

Beekmans chose 54 Ayrton Cobra fixtures specifically for its laser source and narrow beam to highlight the outline of the stage and to add an extra dimension to its depth. He then placed 74 Ghibli spot fixtures within the stage area, rigged in between the separate LED screens that formed the backdrop, and directly in the field of vision of the audience. Twenty-two Huracán Profiles were used as front light, but with an additional line of sixteen Huracán Profiles behind the stage to emphasize the depth behind the semi-transparent stage.

“We used Ghibli and Huracán Profile fixtures together because in André’s vision they formed a great combination due to the fact they have the same features, the same gobo wheels but different light outputs”, says The Art of Light’s Romy van Schijndel. “The AMF stage concept and lighting design is based on three core colours: blue, red and white and has always been very technical. Within these guidelines we try to work with large numbers of lights, often with smaller wattages which allows us to use higher quantities.”

“It is important, even though AMF is a dance event, to maintain a certain look and atmosphere with the lights, so it’s not just ‘flashy moving lights’”, continues van Schijndel. “Throughout the night we work on building-up the show, starting with using just some of the lights, and only after a few hours, during the official opening of the show, revealing all lights together for the first time.”

(Photos: ALDA/Tom Dieleman/Boy Hoogvorst/Insomniac)

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