Trick of Light
One Pro Shares His Trade Secrets for Transforming Small Concerts Into Over-the-Top Events with Dynamic Lighting Effects
Design Bureau, July/August 2012
When Clear Channel Radio approached lighting design professional Jason Livingston to create the lightingscape at their in-house theatre, he was up for the challenge. To take the space from ho-hum conference room to rock ‘n’ roll hall, Livingston and his team at Studio T+L installed 8,000 colored LEDs all around the room. And, because according to Livingston, “rock and roll always needs more,” they even built a custom LED video wall that shoots purposefully-blurred images across the back of the stage. Together, these swaths of constantly-changing light and color “completely enfold the audience in one image,” he says.
Photo courtesy of John Brandon Miller
One Really Cool Media Wall
Up on stage, red, blue, and green LEDs behind translucent panels create images with a cool, diffused look. Philips Color Kinetics helped Livingston choose the fixtures, fixture spacings, and other equipment to get the look just right.
Photo courtesy of John Brandon Miller
Colors All Around
The ceiling panels, wall carve outs, and stage backlights wash the venue in endless color combos. To pull off the effect, Studio T+L installed 141 Philips Color Kinetics iColor Flex SL LED strings in the video wall and wall streaks, and 270 Philips iColor Cove MX Powercore LEDs in the ceiling.
A Stage All A Blur
Concert goers can stake out a spot right in front of the stage and check out the video wall up close. Performing artists can choose from thousands of stock backgrounds or upload their own image so the Philips Color Kinetics Video System Manager.