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Brown Note expands inventory with Ayrton Rivale

Brown Note Productions, a Denver-area company specializing in production for concerts, tours, music festivals and special events, has invested in 150 Ayrton Rivale Profiles. The new fixtures were quickly dispatched for two back-to-back dates at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison for dance musician Black Coffee and artist Illenium.

“We already have Ayrton Diablos, MagicPanel FX and Perseos in our inventory and were looking for additional fixtures in a smaller form factor than Perseo”, says Brown Note President Ryan Knutson. “We wanted a mid-range, 30,000-lumens IP-rated fixture that was lighter than 80 lbs. and had a small form factor since a lot of designers put hundreds in their rigs. I call the Rivale ‘IP-rated lighting on a diet’. It had the size and output we needed plus continuous pan and tilt.”

The new fixtures made their debut at Red Rocks. Highscream production manager James Dutton was looking for a downstage line of fixtures for Black Coffee’s first appearance at Red Rocks, and Knutson offered the Rivale. Sixty-four Rivales were split between flown and ground fixtures to create downstage effects. Thirty-two were mounted on the 85-foot downstage truss, which matched the roofline, while another 32 Rivales were placed on the downstage edge mirroring the flown fixtures.

Just days later, eighteen Rivales returned to Red Rocks with Illenium where lighting designer Chuck Williams took up Knutson’s offer of the new fixtures as part of the overall look created by the overhead truss. Williams liked the Rivales’ performance so much that he opted to take them to Illenium’s upcoming gig at The Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington state. An indie pop rock band’s tour of North America will commence in July with Rivales on board as well.

(Photos: Alive Coverage/Taylor Wallace)

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