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White Light Provide Lighting Upgrade for Leading London Music Venue
Leading entertainment lighting supplier White Light has recently supplied and installed a complete new lighting system for one of London's finest concert venues, St John's, Smith Square.
Located in the heart of Westminster, the hall is regarded as one of the masterpieces of the English Baroque, and regularly plays host to leading international performers. However, the venue's existing lighting system was a quarter of a century old and in poor condition.
To replace the system, White Light worked with multiple-award-winning lighting designer Mark Henderson to devise a new system that provided the venue's concerts with the lighting they needed while also being versatile, easy to maintain and easy to control.
The new installation is based around a series of small lighting grids installed on winches to allow easy access to the equipment at ground level; the winches were installed for White Light by Unusual Rigging. The grids are fitted with 50 1kW Fresnels from Robert Juliat, which provide bright, even lighting for the venue's concerts. "We chose the Juliat Fresnels for their superb build quality," notes White Light's technical sales manager, Roger Hennigan, "but the versatility of their rotating barndoors will also prove useful on occasion."
The new lanterns are run from 96 ways of ETC Sensor dimmers, controlled from a Unison processor via two custom Unison outstations and a portable LCD programming station. "This system allows the lighting to be quickly set for most of the general concert configurations, with tweaking of levels possible using the LCD controller," Hennigan explains. "We've also built in the capability for a DMX lighting desk to take control of the system if necessary for a larger or more complex production. We went for the Sensor racks on this occasion because of their versatility, compact size and reliability."
The new lighting system at St John's, Smith Square went into operation last summer, with the venue's artistic team very happy with their new system. The project is just one of many undertaken by White Light's Installation team in recent months, others including the new theatre at Kingsmead School, Club Indigo at the O2, new lighting systems for the Richard Challoner School, new hoists at the Royal Academy of Music and many more.
photo: Joss Gamble
www.whitelight.ltd.uk.
3rd October 2008
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