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grandMA Travels the World with The Police
Sting, Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland, better known as The Police, are on tour again – after 24 long years. As a result of their reunion the three artistes are performing worldwide gigs, over 1,770,000 tickets have been sold to date. Lighting designer Patrick Woodroffe and associated lighting designer and also light programmer, Danny Nolan gave the show a unique touch of old-style and new, to show how the band appeared before and now. To manage this task they relied on two grandMA full-size, four MA mediaPCs running grandMA video software and five MA NSPs.
Although the whole set was build for the rehearsals, the stage was also constructed virtually with the software grandMA 3D. This was done to use the virtual model during the pre-programming time. “It gave us the opportunity to work with the complete stage view,” explained Daniel Ridano of MA Lighting who accompanied the setup and programming phase. He also helped installing the sophisticated network. MA-Net is used for data distribution during the show. With its speed of 100 Mbps and synchronous simultaneous DMX on all universes it allows for the best performance.
The stage was designed to show the band in a contemporary setting with unobstructed views all around them. A simple oval forms the platform which is echoed by an oval truss above the stage. Three Toshiba HD LED screens are mounted above the stage. They display different media content all triggered by grandMA video. Video director Kevin Williams is selecting the live feeds, imagery and videos. The lighting rig contains amongst others some Little Big Lites, Coemar Infinity washes, Robe 2500 profiles, MAC 700 profiles and MAC 250 washes.
Upstaging Inc. supplied the lighting equipment. Screenworks delivered the LED video screens, William Francis is the tour manager, Charlie Hernandez works as production manager and co-set designer and Tim McWilliams is the world tour promoter rep for T.N.A. Touring.
22nd June 2007
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