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Ayrton MagicBlade-FX chosen for Sylvan Esso tour

Ayrton MagicBlade-FX chosen for Sylvan Esso tour
Ayrton MagicBlade-FX chosen for Sylvan Esso tour

For their 2017 world tour on both sides of the Atlantic, indie pop duo Sylvan Esso engaged production designer Zach Sternberg - who has been with them since their first album in 2013 - to devise the show’s set and lighting design.

 

Sternberg based his design around a giant cantilever system of custom trapezoidal truss attached to six weighted carts, each of which carried four Ayrton MagicBlade-FX fixtures which he used to define the geometric shape. The result was a sculptural element formed of a series of chevrons, the outline of which had been present in Sylvan Esso’s first tour as a static LED array.

 

“Nothing was horizontal or vertical,” he says. “All the carts, trusses and fixtures were at different angles in all three planes which gave me a great starting point to break free from the limits of conventional linear LED battens.”

 

Sternberg also determined there would be no front light, so the band would only be lit from the side and the back. “The way the MagicBlades were rigged, paired with their features, allowed me to use them as an effect light as well as a wash,” he explains.

 

Sternberg programmed the show on a Chamsys console with the 24 MagicBlade-FX used mostly in extended mode. “I treated each LED on the MagicBlade-FX as an individual fixture, plus the pan, tilt and zoom, so my show was programmed with several hundred fixtures in terms of MagicBlade alone,” he says.

 

The MagicBlade-FX units were part of a full floor package supplied by Clearwing Productions’ Milwaukee team who purchased them specifically for the Sylvan Esso tour from Morpheus Lights as part of the first shipment of MagicBlade-FX to the States.

 

(Photos: Lesley Keller)

 

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