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Ayrton Kyalami beams on “Swedish Idol”

Launched in 2004 and part of a global franchise, “Swedish Idol” is one of the most popular shows on Swedish television. Broadcast live on channel TV4, it provides a platform on which hopeful Swedish singing stars can showcase their talents and compete to gain widespread recognition.

The latest series of live performances ran from October 12 to December 7, 2024, at the Filadelfia Convention Center in central Stockholm, and was lit by lighting designer Linus Pansell, who included Ayrton Kyalami, Rivale Profile and MagicBlade FX fixtures in his rig. “The Kyalamis and MagicBlades were crucial for me to build the show”, he says. “I’m usually quite negotiable to changing fixtures to fit the suppliers’ inventories, but this time I really wanted these specific fixtures. I could easily swap out other lights in the rig, but I was very specific about Kyalami and MagicBlade.”

The major part of the “Swedish Idol” set was a large LED wall, “so beams were the only good option to get lights around the performers”, says Pansell who used the Kyalamis to punch through the brightness of the LED wall. Pansell floor-mounted 24 Kyalami units on Wahlberg poles and rigged 18 Rivale Profile overhead. 36 MagicBlade FX were rigged in a grid wall behind the screen (“as narrow as possible”) from where Pansell used them for zoomed out flare effects as well as blade looks.

Compact, lightweight fixtures are an important requirement for the Filadelfia Convention Center, which was one reason why Pansell chose Rivale Profile. Soundforce, one of the largest rental and production companies in Sweden, supplied the Ayrton fixtures - the Rivale Profiles from their own rental inventory, and the Kyalami and MagicBlade FX subrented from Hyrljudet of Goteborg.

Lighting operator on this season of “Swedish Idol” was Isak Gabre, video operator was Björn Holmberg. The screen content was by Greenwall Designs.

(Photo: Linus Pansell)

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