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Horn Powers Maribou State Tour With ChamSys

Christian Wissmuller by Christian Wissmuller
June 5, 2019
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Simon Horn, the owner of Purple Lighting, recently used his ChamSys Stadium MagicQ MQ500 console when working with Maribou State at their sold-out Brixton show and “Kingdoms in Colour” tour.

“I am all about creating drama and movement in the air by not actually wobbling fixtures, but by creating pulse and chase effects in different arrangements and in different orders across the rig,” he said. “Just because a fixture can move doesn’t mean it has to. I can create a sense of movement by doing something as simple as having the beams on the X Bars punch through at different times. This tour is providing me with a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate my design philosophy. The band was very keen on moody dramatic looks and was open to thick smoke and silhouetted moments. It was an LD’s dream come true to be so dynamic.”

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Like all creative visions that come to fruition, however, Horn’s ambitious design for the “Kingdoms in Colour” tour had its share of demanding twists and turns. He credits his MagicQ MQ500 with helping him achieve his vision for the show. For example, he relied heavily on his console’s Group Based Effects feature to create a fluid sense of motion without having his fixtures themselves actually move.

“I used the Group Based Effects often to adjust the way different effects were applied,” he said. “The group based pixel map effects were great fun too, as they helped me apply multiple effects over each other. This  made for some great intricate moments across the X Bars. There was a lot of pixel mapping in this design, so I depended on all of the ChamSys Pixel Mapping features, both the main pixel mapper and the group grid based pixel map.”

The speed of the MQ500 also was important to Horn. “This is an incredibly fast console to program on,” he said. “With the large screen, I have access to groups while still having instant access to color and beam palettes.  I built a large amount of groups to give me quick access to a variety of fixture orders. I also broke up the rig into quick accessible sections. Another thing I love is how easy it is to view what’s in the programmer, cue and palettes. This makes for some very quick editing when I need to change or remove something I’ve accidentally included.”

Perhaps Horn’s biggest challenge was to integrate video content so it could work together and cross fade between the visuals and the lighting. “I didn’t want the contrast of light and dark to be compromised by having a white canvas in place all the time, and there wasn’t the budget for an LED screen offering transparency, so I elected to project onto a dark sharkstooth,” he said.  “While directly behind the sharkstooth I had six towers with LED washes and linear blinders.  On the first two numbers, I held back from using them. Then on the third song, they came into play as a massive surprise for the audience.”

Although the vast majority of the show was timecoded, Horn had some “adlib moments” at the end of sections. He delivered in these instances without missing a beat, relying on the MagicQ’s controllable audio trigger functions. “The audio interface allowed me to select certain frequencies of the audio feed to attack certain values with great accuracy,” he said. “It did things like give me very tight control to bump a cue stack of intensity stabs to this particular set of drum beats.”

With no production rehearsal and no previous experience with the band, Horn “hit the ground running” for his roughly 1000-cue show. “It was very gratifying to see the show come together for the first time after all the programming,” he said. “I’m grateful to Keely Myres of Global Touring Office for bringing the opportunity to me, as well as Lite Up Events for the fantastic pristine equipment, and Ben Cullen Williams for the excellent content. This experience was unexpected, but it is something I will always value.”

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