Martin Garrix launches Anima
09/01/2019
Superstar Dutch DJ Martin Garrix launched his new ANIMA live performance concept with two hi-energy, hi-profile nights at Amsterdam's RAI with the five-day 2018 Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) festival and conference as the backdrop, an event drawing dance music, media and technology professionals and enthusiasts from worldwide to this vibrant city right at the hub of dance music culture.
Garrix's lighting designer Gabe Fraboni once again had the chance to create a spectacular new visual experience - to be enjoyed by Martin Garrix fans globally for the next 12 months - which he did with the help of nearly 300 Robe moving lights - 80 x MegaPointes, 166 x Spikies and 52 x LEDBeam 150s.
Gabe uses Robe for all of his designs, and comments, Robe is my default brand of moving light right now! The products are so versatile and the range so diverse that it fulfils everything I need.
Once again, he worked closely with scenic designer Bart Straver and VJ / video content creator Lorenzo de Pascalis in a rich, provocative and imaginative creative collaboration that rocked some breath-taking results and ensured that Garrix' shows are right up there among the best and most exciting in the world of dance music.
While last year's show had been all about asymmetry, this year Gabe wanted something completely different but that also retained some threads of continuity like the industrial look and style.
At the artist's request, the central LED 'plus' sign right behind the DJ booth remained. Gabe again wanted to be able echo this shape and form across the rig, but this time with the harmony and balance of symmetry.
In embracing this mindset, another important factor was involving the audience in the action - pulling them right into the show making it an immersive and fully four-dimensional experience, rather than a passive viewing equation.
While last year the repeat' effect was achieved through the physical setup of the trussing and the rig's lighting components, this year Gabe introduced automation to accentuate echoes and repeat patterns, a concept that required symmetry yet was totally dynamic. To ensure the complete feeling of envelopment, he decided that this should be above the audience to fulfil the immersive goals of the design.
The Grid
The grid of MegaPointe / LED pods above the crowd was created utilizing 30 of the Robe MegaPointes each rigged on an individual Cyberhoist motor for up / down movement.
The automation system was supplied by Unlimited Productions sourced by production manager Bert Kelchtermans. The chain and cables for each Cyberhoist was enclosed in a custom-designed spun aluminium telescopic tube which expanded and contracted as the hoist lifted and dropped the MegaPointes in and out, going as low as 5.5 metres, just above the heads of the audience.
The top' of each hoist pod was clad in a 3x3 metre square of 3.9MM LED screen with a gap in the centre for the aluminium tube. The home position was 10 metres above the floor which was as much headroom as they could squeeze out of the RAI.
Goosebump Moment
The audience reaction the first time the MegaPointes came in from the pods each night was phenomenal, a real goosebump' moment described Gabe with obvious delight.
The top' of each hoist pod was clad in a 3x3 metre square of 3.9MM LED screen with a gap in the centre for the aluminium tube. The home position was 10 metres above the floor which was as much headroom as they could squeeze out of the RAI.
Goosebump Moment
The audience reaction the first time the MegaPointes came in from the pods each night was phenomenal, a real goosebump' moment described Gabe with obvious delight.
With those 30 fixtures distributed - and dynamically moving - across the barn like environs of the RAI, he could turn it from a massive impersonal arena into an intimate clubby space almost instantaneously. It was an extremely powerful visual effect which could also shift, twist and bend the architecture of the space.
MegaPointes can be SO many different things commented Gabe, that these 30 fixtures combined with the ones on the main rig and the automation ... gave me a different lighting rig for each song.
MegaPointes were also ideal for this specific task due to their light weight and compact dimensions.
Gabe's original inspirations for evolving this grid effect included Andi Watson's recent exquisite designs for Radiohead - applied in a very different context. He's also been consistently impressed by the architectural and structural visions and approach of the late Mark Fisher's work and of Stufish which continues to develop and originate incredible stage and show imagineering.
Making ANIMA come to life is something Gabe has found totally creatively invigorating .
Moving back onstage at the RAI gig a 52-metre-wide by 9-metre-high LED wall defined the stage area and in front of this each side were structures providing three vertical strips of positions for the Spikies, repeating the form of the plus' video sculpture.
Above and below the main section of this video wall were 10 x MegaPointes and 10 x strobes for silhouetting and accentuating the depth of the performance area. The balance of MegaPointes were rigged on three concentric arc trusses above the stage.
Out in the house, the LEDBeam 150s were located between each of the LED / MegaPointe / Cyberhoist pods. They provided additional effects, fabulous beams, more crowd interaction and effectively lit the audience for an upcoming You Tube stream.
As well as the Robe fixtures, the design featured 76 x LED strobes, 100 x 1-lite blinders and 21 x 4-lite blinders, all supplied to the show by lighting vendor Focus / RentAll.
Thirty lasers were integrated into these RAI shows, provided by Lase
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