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Animals as Leaders Use Fixtures from CHAUVET Professional On Tour

Christian Wissmuller by Christian Wissmuller
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Animals as Leaders has minimalized the number of fixtures on their floor package for their 22-city with the help of lighting designer Victor Zeiser. Zeiser, who owns Squeek Lights, put together a lean rig that includes two strobes, three batten fixtures and four Maverick MK2 Spots from CHAUVET Professional.

“We got very clear instructions from the band’s management about what they wanted the rig to look like,” said Zeiser. “They were emphatic about keeping the fixture count down, yet they wanted a lot of deep visuals. So what do you do? If you have only four lights, you want them to be bright, have a wide zoom range and give you a ton of color options. Not a problem for me; I was glad I had the MKs.”

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The Mavericks MK2 Spots fill a variety of roles, including crossing light in the area behind the band and putting texture on its three members with gobos.

“The quality of the Mavericks’ gobos and richness of its colors, really help create a vibey mood on stage,” he said. “I also use them to create silhouettes as well as throw some beams around. A thing that sold me on this fixture is its output. I can get a 700 watt arc fixture worth of output – along with a bunch of other arc features – but I don’t need the lamps.”

When preprogramming his design, Zeiser created MIDI cue stacks that are used to trigger the show on the tour. The board operator busks the house rig at each venue to complement Zeiser’s time coded show.

“The great thing about Animals as Leaders is the intricacy to their music,” said Zeiser. “It really defines easy categorization. I had to tackle some details of the music that I normally wouldn’t focus on. A lot of times I felt more like I was writing cues for jazz than metal.  Trying to name cues for songs that have no lyrics was also a treat. Doing this with a rig that didn’t have a lot of extra fixtures made it that much more rewarding. I had to think about each light, every feature of that light and how I would use it to support some pretty heady music. The experience has forced me to grow as a designer.”

 

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