Robe Dreams On posted: 24/11/2018
The 2018 Dreambeach festival, staged near the charming fishing town of Villaricos in Andaluc a, Spain, is a picturesque location traditionally known for its unspoiled beaches and jaw-dropping sunsets and now for hosting the largest dance music festival in Spain!
Dreambeach welcomes 155,000 music fans to the region to enjoy five fun-filled days of superlative electronic music.
In the highly competitive festival market each event is looking for something fresh, unique and invigorating in addition to amazing vibes and great music, and Dreambeach is also known for its commitment to excellent production values.
Main stage production designer Eduardo Valverde this year specified 70 x Robe MegaPointes, 50 x Spiiders and 16 x BMFL Spots - together with other lighting, all supplied by rental specialist Fluge.
His eye-catching design WOWed the crowds, together with the dynamic artist line-up on the 70-metre-wide and 30-metre-tall stage and set.
Eduardo (Edu), founding partner and creative director of Pixelmap Studios in Madrid, lights many dance music events and has become a bit of an expert in the specific optical needs of the genre. This was his third year at Dreambeach designing the full visual concept - including structures, the stage itself, the screens, video content and lasers - plus the lighting.
When formulating a design, numerous aspects are considered. The venue for a start, which in this case was a massive outdoor arena; then the type of artists performing in terms of bands, DJs, dancers, aerialists, etc, and naturally, the style of the music. Once that's all clear in his head, he already has the first ideas for the architecture of the structures which form the base of each environment.
Then comes the all-important practicalities related to the process - venue capacity - and budget, alongside the build timescale.
For this show, the stage construction featured some serious metalwork and had an epic wide' look - characteristic of many dance style events. The set featured a series of convex video-clad semicircles protruding horizontally above the deck, resembling a giant - spacey - slot machine!
The Spiiders were positioned along the top edge of the structure and down the offstage sides; the MegaPointes were distributed all over the stage and the BMFLs were on the front of the stage deck.
The Spiider's powerful wash-beam attributes were used to create a uniform base of colour to wash the entire stage and set areas. Edu loves the intensity of the fixture's output together with the zoom and the highly effective strobe function.
The MegaPointes were utilised for all the beam-work and the main effects with their speed and brightness. We used this fixture for its true hybrid' capabilities said Edu, they are a high impact beam light as much as a gorgeous spot with a fantastic zoom .
In fact, MegaPointe is his favourite multi-functional moving light now!
On the floor, the 16 x BMFL Spots served as sky scanners ... their impressive output scouring the night sky, shooting up into the stars and making the perfect impression visible for kilometres around, even when in deep saturated colours.
Also on the rig were another 500 or so fixtures - a selection of LED strobes, blinders and battens.
The biggest challenge in lighting Dreambeach was to ensure that each artist playing the main stage had a different looking show and ambience for their sets! The video-heavy nature of the design and the MegaPointes were key to making this happen.
Edu worked with a large, talented and very passionate team of lighting, laser, video and pyro / FX programmers, operators and technicians to run all the technical visual elements of the show.
He enjoys operating the lighting console himself on these occasions, I love feeling the music and the rhythms and creating the scenes in real-time working in collaboration with the video and laser directors ... that's when you get those real magical goose-bump' moments at FOH he declared, adding that it was also great to get audience reactions to some of the visual transitions.
A typical Dreambeach lighting / video / laser / FX operating shift runs to 12 hours, so they swap crew in and out, ensuring breaks and rests so everyone can stay fresh and give the show their best when it's their turn to engage.
Guest lighting operators / directors arrive with some artists and are happily accommodated with their showfiles or own consoles, and that's also a source of great interest for Edu and his team. It's enriching to see the creative approaches taken by others he elucidates, we all learn a lot from this and get the chance to witness some incredible shows .
Joining him as part of the core Dreambeach creative team this year were head programmer and lighting operator Juan Manuel Lazaro, lighting operator Sergi Prat, laser designer and operator Javier Sanchis, video designer / operator Jonay Hernandez.
Edu described his own roles as LD and a little bit of everything!
Edu's industry career started in television lighting, where he received a well-grounded training and education in the discipline before seeking the more adrenalized thrills and excitement of touring and live event lighting.
Pixelmap Studios was founded to originate and realise creative and innovative show designs, co-ordinate technical specifications and instigate the full delivery of imaginative productions for all types of live environments and entertainment scenarios.
Edu has been using Robe in his work since the launch of the hugely popular Pointe luminaire in 2013. For him - and many others - this was a game-changing light and one that took Robe into new stratospheres! It was also the start of an ongoing positive and highly productive relationship with the brand, thanks to the hard work of Spanish distribut
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