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Luis Torres creates celestial looks for Phoenix Lights with Chauvet

Taking place on the Raceway in Phoenix, Arizona, at the end of March, the Phoenix Lights 2024 festival featured a wide range of EDM performances, supported by a light and video show created by Luis Torres on a 100-foot wide and 48-foot tall rig. Torres channeled the musical energy into visuals with help from forty Chauvet Professional Color Strike M and thirty Maverick MK3 Wash fixtures supplied by Hardwired Productions.

Like the rest of the lighting fixtures in his rig, the Color Strike and Maverick units were spread throughout the truss structures. Torres did this to create unexpected visual moments and convey the kind of uncertain spontaneity that was in keeping with the festival’s supernova theme. “I wanted the rig to have different moments and surprises”, he says. “That’s why I had lights on the video trusses but also in between the video strips. This way, when video was off, I could have the lighting pop up and fill the gaps.”

Using his Color Strike M fixtures as strobes, Torres arranged them in four rows of ten units each, having five located on each side of the circular truss that held the main video screen. “As strobes, these fixtures helped give the rig that important width and symmetry”, he says. “I like doing this sort of thing in my designs. Having the strobe in rows, open the chance to create some neat chase effects.”

“Given that the theme of the show was ‘Phoenix Lights Supernova’, having the Color Strike Ms cover the width allowed me to create effects that could reflect a supernova - an explosion of a star in the galaxy”, he continues. “Probably my favorite look in the show was when we had all the strobes on in full output around the circle.”

Torres placed twelve of his Maverick fixtures on each side of the circle. He arranged the units in rows of six pieces. “The MK3s gave me that bright pop I was looking for in between the video strips. The other MK3 units were used for key light for the DJ and the dancer platforms that were in the outside corner of the scaffold structures.”

Radiating light in different patterns around the circular truss, the Color Strike and Maverick fixtures gave this central video element a floating celestial look that also played into the festival’s theme. The often-surreal images displayed on that video screen conveyed an even greater space-like vibe.

(Photos: Chauvet Professional)

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