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Go East: grandMA System Used for Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Serbia
Televoters from 43 countries have decided - the winner of the 2008 Eurovision Song Contest with the name ‘Confluence of Sound' is Dima Bilan representing Russia with his song ‘Believe'. The spectacular final at the Belgrade Arena consisted of entries from 25 countries. Lighting designer Per Sundin is an old hand at designing the Eurovision Song Contest. From 2002 till 2005 he created every year a spectacular show for the average 100 million viewers worldwide. As in 2007 and 2006 the event was again controlled by a sophisticated grandMA system. Four grandMA full-size at FOH were joined by an equal number of consoles as backup. Twenty-three MA NSPs (Network Signal Processors) spread the commands to a massive lighting rig.
The show used, besides many others, 136 Clay Paky Alpha Spot HPEs, 24 BigLites, numerous Martin moving lights, approximated 120 square metres of Barco OLite 510, 24 square metres of Barco SLite 10 and a mass of Martin LED screens. The giant stage construction measured 25 metres wide and 27 metres deep. 72 tons of lighting equipment were mounted to nearly 2,500 metres of truss.
Procon Event Engineering GmbH of Germany, was the general technical supplier and provided lighting, sound, video, stage building, rigging and power. Production designer was Goran Joksimovic. Sven Stojanovic worked as art director. The event was broadcasted and organized by RTS (Radio-televizija Srbije).
photo: Procon
9th June 2008
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