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JTE’s PixelLines Rock with ‘The Strokes’
Modern hipster New York rock kings ‘The Strokes’ are back on tour with a new album. The performance is a big rock show that reflects the energy of the band, delivering an injection of swagger and cool to the frighteningly fashionable crowd of fans and A listers.
Lighting the band for the first time, designers Troy Giddens and Chris Ragan were given a blank canvas. The band wanted minimal front lighting and no followspots which created a moody dark but spectacular final design including 39 PixelLine 1044s, six PixelLine 110s, four PixelPars, 29 moving fixtures and 12 strobes.
The 1044s were chosen for their output and pixilation. Used for effects lighting focused directly at the crowd, they create a large array of colour and can be viewed from all angles without losing any density. The tight LED configuration of the 1044s ensures that the colour output is true to the colour source – where white is white and not a mixture of red, green and blue dots.
PixelLine 110s are the only front lights in the design and are mounted vertically to the backside of the downstage towers producing saturated colour washes across the stage. Giddens preferred to use the 110s for this part of the design, so he could utilise the 4-colour feature RGBA (red, green, blue, amber). The amber is actually the most used front wash in the show. And as a last minute addition to the rig, four PixelPar 90s were added as truss toners.
The PixelRange fixtures were programmed and controlled via a PixelDrive system and Giddens is very complimentary: “Neither of us has been happier with a fixture of any kind after the first use - as we have with the PixelLines and PixelDrive. They have done everything we wanted and much more. We will probably use them in all our future designs in some form or another. They are also amazingly durable, which we realised after a mishap with a bottle of water! After standing the unit on end over night to let it drain and dry out – it fired up and ran like new the next day!”
Neg Earth supplied all the lighting and fabricated the final design. From the trussing to the custom PixelLine brackets - the end result is exactly how Giddens had visualised it.
LDs Giddens and Ragan have their own design company called Intelligent Production Solutions Creative Group and have lit many different bands ranging from rock to hip hop.
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