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ChamSys consoles in use at Four Tet festival under K Bridge

When British lighting designer Ed Warren lit two Four Tet shows in Brooklyn at the start of this summer, he and the artist were 100-feet below the Kosciuszko Bridge (also known as the “K Bridge”) in the recently opened Under The K Bridge Park. “I must admit, it was different doing a show underneath such a busy overpass”, says Warren. “We really couldn’t tell at all what was going on above us. I wonder if anyone above could tell what was going on with us below.”

The two-day festival featured a mix of EDM music in all its forms by Four Tet and twenty artists he selected to be a part of his curated event. Warren lit Four Tet’s two main stage sets - one on Saturday late, the other Sunday afternoon into evening, using his ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M Stadium Console.

Shawn Bunch and Rishi Guinness ran the other shows on MagicQ MQ-80 Compact Lighting Consoles with Wings, while See Factor’s Alban Sardzinski handled production on the B stage. All the consoles at the festival, as well as the lighting rig, were supplied by See Factor, working with Highlt PDS (design and drafting studio) GreeNow (power and generators) Firehouse Productions (Flex one audio), and Gravity Productions (festival production management).

For the Four Tet show that he designed, Warren turned the park under the double-spanned bridge into kaleidoscopic wonderland of rapidly moving reflective light and gobo patterns right there in a converted industrial site at the border of two New York boroughs.

As is his custom, Warren made mirror balls an integral part of this design. “We had four mirror balls positioned around the circular truss above the stage”, he says. “There were also four pillars holding up the bridge. We rigged circular trusses around them as well, so in total we had eight above the dancefloor and four above the stage.”

As for the gobo looks in his show, Warren notes: “I don’t often use them much, but they were a good way to break up the show a little. We called upon them at the more relaxed gentle parts of the set before it went hard again - ‘recovery gobos’, if you will.”

In addition to the layout of his ChamSys console and its Timeline feature, Warren found the Group FX feature to be particularly important at these shows: “I used a Show File from a previous Four Tet show with a not too dissimilar setup, so Group Cues and Group FX made changing the show to this configuration go very smoothly.”

Looking at the overall show, See Factor’s Alban Sardzinski adds: “This was a very unique canvas to work with. It allowed some incredible looks to be created. The ability with ChamSys to busk fast and drive 90-pixel bars and lights without limitations was a big contributor the making this a special event for everyone.”

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