Robe Joins The Beacon Jams posted: 16/02/2021
The Beacon Jams were a hugely successful 8-week virtual residency' presented by guitarist and singer-songwriter Trey Anastasio (AKA lead singer of Phish) and MSG Entertainment in New York City's iconic Beacon Theatre. The shows were live-streamed free exclusively on Twitch at 8 p.m. every Friday through October and November 2020. The artist played with varied arrangements of his Trey Anastasio Band (TAB), adding and changing line-ups and special guests each week, offering a dynamic mix of live music and interactive entertainment. With up to 12 musicians onstage and the immense challenge of playing live with no audience in such a famous venue, production and lighting designer Marc Janowitz from E26 Design thought out of the box!
His mission was to adapt and redirect the visual drama and ambience that usually accompany a 3000 strong live audience as well as light all the performers slickly and efficiently for TV, a task achieved with style, panache and the help of almost 200 Robe moving lights and LED fixtures. Once The Beacon Jams concept was established, Marc - who has designed Trey Anastasio's live, solo, and acoustic projects for 9 years - and camera director Trey Kerr landed on the idea of flipping the room with Trey standing in his usual front / lead position, but with his back to the auditorium and the band fanning out around him. The onstage area then became a backstage / studio workspace.
With this spatial relationship established, the task was to find interesting and exciting ways to make the most of the auditorium for lighting positions that would produce that very special atmosphere they wanted. The concept was to create an environment that could never be achieved if we were staging a standard concert - to embrace the possibilities rather than lament the limitations, stated Marc.
Various ground support structures were built, stands were adapted, and some custom solutions created.
We crafted a bespoke space rather than performing in an empty room, explained Marc. We didn't want it to be a concert, the idea was always that these performances were specifically developed for the viewing audience at home.
They did not want to install lots of classic concert trussing and metalwork structures. Instead, the quest was to preserve that unmistakable Beacon Theatre look while creating an intentional TV studio environment on stage.
Without a single pixel of video screen in sight, Marc wanted some sort of general sky' lighting and subtle twinkling star effects that could create an aura alluding to there being a big space out there, but not showcasing empty seats.
He hit on utilizing 90 x Robe OnePATTs - a single RGBW LED light source housed in a brushed metal frame - which were scattered around the stalls and balcony seating, almost like faces in a crowd!
Once the positioning was optimized, these produced fantastic atmospheric background, bokeh and back of camera effects.
They were attached to mic stands which were super-light and easy for the crew to position.
With this layer of lighting in place, Marc next worked on having different lighting options available for every camera perspective for which he needed numerous compact multifunctional lightsources and again thought of Robe!
Spikies he had used on other projects, at the Beacon Theatre 36 of these tiny single pixel' LED moving lights proved perfect for accentuating the contours of the auditorium in the wide shots, with 18 along the top of the balcony and 15 in the loge immediately below. These produced an elegant and powerful curtain of light beams from all angles.
The Spikies looked fantastic for atmospheric effects, however the main practical back lighting was from a row of 12 x BMFL Spots, picked for their very bright, tight, sharp and crisp output, which were positioned at the rear of the upper balcony, rigged on goalposts.
They swept grandiosely and decisively down to the stage at a dramatic angle, looking exceedingly cool and creating classy contrasts with the tighter Spikie beams, adding substantial depth for the cameras.
I knew I could count on BMFLs to seriously punch through at that 125 ft throw distance, and offer all the features and flexibility needed over the 8-week run, observed Marc.
Also picked for their intensity and diversity were 16 x Robe MegaPointes, with six rigged on the balcony rail and the other 10 around the orchestra stalls at floor level, just behind the band.
With these horizon lines' of BMFLs, MegaPointes and Spikies, Marc could also highlight elements of the venue's impressive interior architecture and features. It was originally designed as a movie / vaudeville palace by architect Walter W Ahlschlager, opening in 1929.
To complete the picture with a low horizon line of lights, he wanted another row of smaller light sources at the bottom and back of the shots and chose 24 of Robe's new Tetra2 moving LED battens.
Some were installed end-to-end underneath the first balcony edge, producing striking camera flare and other interesting lens aberration effects adding to the atmospheric engineering toolkit. These units would also tip up and graze the front edges of the loge and balcony. More Tetra2s in front of the band risers brought the effect closer to the cameras.
Featuring the same Robe multi-colored flower effect (MCFE) as the Spikies, Marc fully explored working these and the Tertra2s harmoniously.
With his FOH and auditorium lighting set up meticulously to hint at the vastness of the space but bring the visual focus right down to the intimacy of the musicians on set, Marc took a more conventional route with the over-stage lighting.
Twelve Robe T1 Profiles were among the main overhead key / specials light sources, together with an assortment of other luminaires including profile mo
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Robe Joins The Beacon Jams posted: 16/02/2021 
