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Capital Cities of Rock: Lisbon and Madrid Celebrated Rock in Rio
Rarely do so many big name known artists meet together as was the case in the recent ‘Rock in Rio' festival. Although the name is misleading, in fact the festival took place on different weekends in Lisbon, Portugal, and Madrid, Spain, the line-up was unmistakable: The Police, Neil Young, Metallica, Linkin Park, Lenny Kravitz, Amy Winehouse, Alanis Morisette, Bon Jovi, Rod Stewart, Shakira, Joss Stone, Ivete Sangalo, Tokio Hotel, Apocalyptica, Machine Head, The Offspring and Muse, Bob Dylan, Franz Ferdinand, Alejandro Sanz, El canto del Loco and Manolo Garcia, to name a few, were there to make the event a show to remember.
Danny Nolan accompanied the days of rock with his lighting design, using a grandMA full-size as standard lighting console for the stage lighting, with another grandMA full-size as backup. A third grandMA full-size plus six NSPs were in place for scenic and audience lights as well as for controlling three grandMA video media servers.
Danny Nolan explained his design: "Rock In Rio is a festival attended by many lighting designers all trying to produce their own individual style needed for their specific show. The design has to include a wide range of fixtures and tools that are easy and quick to create different looks. Rock In Rio festival has always had a tradition for large set designs and that also played a large part in the overall lighting design. I think the major new design aspect of Rock In Rio was the LED architectural lighting. We used more then 190 colorpix v8s, all pixel mapped via a grandMA video media server. This gave an incredible large-scale low-res effect over the whole stage and scenic panels. We were able, via the pixel mapping, to very easily produce simple block colours and chases as well as low-res moving media content. The real beauty was that the further away you were the more the movement came alive, giving even the people at the very back of the park a real feel for what was happening on stage."
Caio Bertti worked as associate lighting designer and Nico Gomes and Maurice Hughes were production managers. Procon Event Engineering GmbH supplied the lighting equipment. Christoph Hahnl organised project management for Procon and Frank Stähr worked as system technician. The video system was provided by XL video Belgium with sound by Gabisom Audio Equipment of Sao Paolo, Brasil.
photos: Christoph Hahnl
13th August 2008
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