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Nick Jevons chooses Chauvet’s Colorado PXL Bar 16 for Fly Festival

Drawing up plans to light the 40-meter long main stage at Edinburgh’s Fly Festival, lighting designer Nick Jevons opted to go with a single lighting fixture model: the Chauvet Professional Colorado PXL Bar 16 supplied by Liteup. The two-day festival was held at Princes Gardens.

“Convincing others that the concept of having one fixture type would work to deliver enough different looks for a two-day dance festival was a challenge”, says Jevons. “I’m proud to say the results did not disappoint.” Persuading everyone to go alone with his one fixture plan was one of the challenges Jevons faced, the other was to ensure that the two rows of 1000 x 139 x 273 mm  (39.37 x 5.47 x 10.75 in) fixtures in his design, each consisting of forty units, were aligned in two straight lines. He credits the production team, notably Chris Canavan from 19MIL “who come up with the stage design and had faith in my lighting design”, with making this arrangement work.

The two rows of PXL Bar 16 battens, flanking a large horizontal video wall on either side ran across the entire width of the stage.  There were also some atmospheric effects, but from a lighting standpoint, no other fixtures were there to help. A row of mirrored panels, angled at 40-degrees, reflected the light from the fixtures, adding to the depth of the show.

“Drawing on this fixture’s full pixel mode gave us incredible creative flexibility when it came to programming”, says Jevons of his 23-universe show. “My programmer, Steve Mac, fully mixed everything live to follow the ebb and flow of the music.” With the Colorado PXL Bar 16s, “we could get huge looks with full intensity, and then break the lighting down into individual pixels for really small intimate looks”, he adds.

Working with the video content and atmospheric effects, the PXL battens helped Jevons and his team come up with the desired visuals throughout the festival, whether it was a glowing purple haze for Mr. G’s heartfelt funk, or ice cool looks for UK wave maker Max Dean.

(Photos: Chauvet Professional/Michael C. Hunter)

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