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Corona: Toucan introduces Secret Shop DJ livestream series

Toucan Productions has started to livestream weekly DJ sets from its facility in Oklahoma City using a setup that includes nearly 100% Elation lighting gear. Dubbed Secret Shop and hosted on Twitch TV, the livestream broadcasts feature multiple 45-minute DJ sets and run every Wednesday from 8:00 pm to midnight Central Daylight Time in the U.S.

Arvol Dingess and Parker Shore, both of Toucan, have been instrumental in getting the Secret Shop livestreams up and running, an idea that emerged from Covid-era downtime. “Sometime in May, Arvol, our video lead at Toucan, hit me up with the idea to do a streaming show from the Toucan shop and I jumped on it,” says Shore, an Oklahoma City native who has been a lighting specialist at Toucan for the past five years. “We did some cocktail napkin sketches of the rig, built it and then pitched it to my network of DJs. Since no one has gigs at the moment, they’ve been more than happy to do it.”

With few projects on the board and touring put on hold (Shore was supposed to be on the road as L2/Laser Programmer for Louis the Child), the idea came together fairly quickly with the first Secret Shop DJ sets airing on May 27th. Twenty-four Elation Rayzor Q7 LED moving heads line the upstage truss as top border across the video wall while 8 Smarty Max hybrid moving heads populate a midstage truss (an earlier incarnation of the setup used 8 Artiste DaVinci LED moving heads on the midstage). Four floor-based DaVinci’s provide silhouette light while Platinum Beam Extreme moving heads are spread throughout the rig.

Two other Oklahoma City Production companies have lent their support to the project, CNS Productions supplying cameras, cabling and switching; and LaserWolf FX providing laser projectors along with pixel beam bars for a DJ-surround laser cage.

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