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i-Pix Satellites for Arcade Fire
Canadian indie rockers Arcade Fire’s world tour continues, having just finished its latest US and now hitting the UK again, with lighting, set and video designer Paul Normandale’s striking visuals making the most of 38 i-Pix Satellite LED fixtures.
Normandale is well known for his innovative and original approach to lighting and visual design. For this tour – which started back in March – he decided to have 10 Satellites inbuilt into customised 5k Fresnel fixtures, essentially giving an old lamp a new look and lease of life with its new lightsource.
These are flown on the rear and mid trusses – or stand-mounted for the festival version of the rig - and used for set looks. Engineered by Normandale’s company Light Alternative, who are also supplying lighting kit to the tour, creating these new and special fixtures appealed to his sense of “the unexpected”.
A further two floor-mounted Satellites are used to up-light the organ, and the balance of 24 are mounted under a series of transparent risers including the drum floor, up-lighting anyone standing overhead.
Normandale has used Satellites on many previous occasions – in designs for Bjork, Crowded House and Paul McCartney – and likes many elements including their “size, cost, inbuilt power supply, brightness and daisy chaining ability”.
The tour is the band’s first major production run, flying high on the back of their acclaimed second album ‘Neon Bible’ and has seen them selling out 25,000 seater venues in the US.
The show is operated by John Chiodo using a Hog 3 console, and all lighting equipment is supplied by Lite Alternative.
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