Over 400,000 visitors attended Baltimore’s Light City Festival in April to take in hundreds of illuminated sculptures, building projections, and interactive exhibits that were illuminated with a rig of CHAUVET Professional fixtures.
Brett Angstadt of Round Peg Productions designed the rig with the fixtures from CHAUVET, which were supplied by Showtime Sound.
“Given that this festival was devoted to art and light, it was important to make our stage stand out so it reflected the spirit of this event,” said Angstadt. “Our fixtures also had to be bright enough to stand up to the big LED wall we had running across the back of the stage. We wanted this wall to work with the lighting fixtures to create a single visual panorama.”
Angstadt also provided video content and media server programming for the displays. The designer flanked his LED wall with pixel mapped Nexus 4×4 panels.
“We hung the Nexus units on vertical truss,” he said. “There were four panels on each truss structure, and we positioned two structures on each side of the LED wall. The panels and wall blended well together to unify our design.”
Two STRIKE 4 multi formatted fixtures flown in on a mid-stage truss balanced the brightness of the video wall.
“The STRIKEs give you a lot of output, so they are great for eye candy,” said Angstadt. “We used them often to engage the crowd with audience lighting.”
To make the stage’s lighting versatile stylistically, Angstadt used the 18 COLORado 1-Tri IP RGB wash lights positioned across the downstage deck to create dramatic color changes for the different artists who performed.
The 10 Rogue R2 Wash moving lights were used for aerial and crossing effects at the festival, and Angstadt also pixel mapped them to add more variety to his lighting design.
“We wanted to make this show as varied and interesting as possible,” said Angstadt. “This was more than just lighting for musical performances, it was also part of a bigger event that celebrated what you can do with light.”
