Colour Visits Another Planet for Nao Show posted: 17/04/2019
Colour Sound Experiment collaborated with lighting designer Miles Weaver as the lighting supplier for the intimate soul-y funk sounds of young and fantastically talented UK singer/ songwriter Nao, who has just completed the first UK and European leg of her Saturn tour following the drop of her second album last autumn.
The tour was project managed for Colour Sound by Alex Ryan, who comments: It's the first time we've worked with Miles as a supplier and it was an excellent experience. His design was original and interesting, and it is always exciting to be involved with an LD and artist with a great future ahead .
Miles was keen to work with Colour Sound after being recommended by several other lighting designers. He took a floor package on the tour, stepping up to a full rig for the London showcase at Brixton Academy.
The floor package had to offer max versatility yet pack down into a trailer, so Miles chose 12 x Robe Spiider LED wash beams for this. He wanted to achieve some specific effects like creating walls of colour but was keen to use a fixture other than an LED batten.
His specials design also had to be infinitely scalable depending on the available stage space, and the 12 Spiiders were a great solution on this front as well as working with whatever venue house or top rigs were available each night.
For Brixton, it was a complete own show' scenario, but they had to step up seamlessly to over 4 times the size of rig with no rehearsal or tech time!
The Spiider count expanded to 36 for Brixton, with 18 of the additional 24 units rigged on two overhead V-shaped trusses - one slightly higher than the other - mirrored - footprint wise - on the floor with the original 12 plus another six making up the 18.
A Showtex Ultralight stage net - in 4-metre-wide sections and covering the whole width of the upstage trusses - was stretched from the bottom of the lower truss to the floor, and attached to this randomly' were a set of 33 Saturnesque scenic domes made by Hangman.
The domes were constructed from lightweight plastic, clipped to the netting and took light beautifully.
For Brixton, additional texture for the domes was provided by two of Colour Sound's 30K projectors operated by Nick Whitehead, who mapped each dome using Resolume, giving Miles colour and dimmer control for each one from his gMA3 console.
This brought another layer of depth and individual looks to the performance whilst keeping the illumination simple and very clean.
The Spiiders gave Miles the functionality to create graduated colour and texture chases that added a highly distinctive lighting aesthetic which also linked back to the basic specials look of the 12 Spiiders on the tour and the ambience of the European dates.
Miles has worked with Nao since her professional career kicked off around three years ago, so keeping her very powerful and compelling performance centre stage is always paramount, and he is constantly conscious that lighting should never be distracting.
He explains that she loves colour and nuance and has a personally that lends itself to vibrancy and an energy, something he likes to reflect in the lighting treatment.
Nao also has some favourite visual effects, like the colour amber, and she's inspired by many different elements which she discusses with Miles on an ongoing basis, some of which he will work into the show's lighting.
He is also really into the music which assists the whole creative process to flow.
The nets are invisible during the show, so the domes look like they are floating in air creating an interplanetary vibe related to the Saturn returns' theme that pervades the album. The domes bring a three-dimensionality to the space without the need for a more complex set in an essentially simple idea that has a big effect. A row of Robe CycFX 8s along the floor skimmed up the backdrop bringing it in and out of play.
The main hard-edged fixtures were Robe BMFL Spots, with 16 on the downstage V truss - (the Spiiders were in the upstage one).
He's used BMFLs a lot during festival seasons and likes the brightness and consistency of the output in addition to the colour mixing and the high CRI which ensures that artists always look great on camera!
Robe's LEDWash 300 on tank traps on the floor provided side lighting and created depth and cross washed over the 4-piece band as well as being handy for lighting the opening acts at Brixton.
Miles also used a BMFL Spot as a follow spot, operated via a RoboSpot BaseStation, a recent investment by Colour Sound. The BMFL was positioned downstage centre on the front truss and was Nao's principal spot for the whole show, with the operator positioned stage right in dimmer world.
Miles loves the RoboSpot concept of being able to use similar fixtures to what's in the main rig. He'd first used the system on a show for design company MIRRAD and knew it would work brilliantly for this show.
Some Claypaky Stormy LED strobes were dotted around, some on the floor and some in the trusses, used judiciously for accents, bumps and pulses.
Chauvet UV PARs worked in conjunction with UV clothing worn by Nao for a couple of numbers - four on the tour and six for Brixton. The UV glow highlighted the flow of her dance moves which popped while her face remained subtly lit in a spacey burlesque section of the performance.
He ran the lighting on one of Colour Sound's grandMA3 consoles running MA2 software as a rock solid choice for control.
It was a great experience working with Alex Miles stated. He focussed on finding all the practical and physical solutions leaving me to concentrate on the creative aspects - a perfect combination .
He was impressed with the attention to detail and the immediate response time from Alex and th
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Colour Visits Another Planet for Nao Show posted: 17/04/2019 
