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Amsterdam Music Festival lit with Robe

Andre Beekmans and a team from his Eindhoven, Netherlands-based design studio The Art of Light created a lighting scheme for the 2022 Amsterdam Music Festival (AMF), a one-day electronic music extravaganza of epic proportions produced by Alda and staged at the Johan Cruijff Arena as part of the 2022 Amsterdam Music Event (AME).

Beekmans chose over 400 Robe moving lights to be a major part of the lighting rig, including 166 x LEDBeam 100s, 192 x Pointes and 76 x MegaPointes. He has lit the event for the ten years since it started, with this year being the first since 2019, and worked closely with event technical production manager Maarten Hoogland from Alda in creating the set and staging elements as well as delivering the lighting design.

Taking the multiple crosses of the AMF logo as a visual starting point, eleven large crosses outlined with LED strip lighting and rigged with additional lights were designed and custom fabricated. Five of these were rigged above the stage, a cluster of three together upstage centre were on a motion control system and flew in and out behind the DJs.

These three AMF crosses were flanked by two single ones left and right of the stage at the back, with the other six deployed around the other three sides of the football field. Each 7.5 metre high AMF cross was rigged with twelve Robe LEDBeam 100s.

Instead of having a big slab of LED screen upstage, Beekmans and Hoogland were keen to have something more abstract and interesting, more of a LED feature than a bit of TV, so this set piece was created with strips of LED that could work separately or together as one big canvas when needed. It could also be lit from behind to add depth, and the content created by Veemee Visuals was designed to work more harmoniously with the lighting.

Six Pointes were rigged on thirty-two motion-controlled trusses above the audience across the stadium. The movement brought an additional aesthetic layer to the picture and generated multiple looks throughout the night, sometimes swooping in dramatically low above the audience.

“To ramp up the club effect, the design really needed lights coming in from all angles and directions”, notes Beekmans, adding that it was a massive space to fill so they needed lots of bright fixtures, and the moving trusses were designed with Pointes, combined with seventy-six Robe MegaPointes across the stage area. The MegaPointes were mainly rigged behind and in between the LED video banners for blast-through and other looks.

Beekmans’ design featured approximately 650 other lightsources including LED strips, floods, and other moving lights, all controlled via four GrandMA3 full size consoles (two live and two backup) operated by a team from the Art of Light. Joining him on the operating shifts were programmer Kasper Iseger; Jaap Kamps who took care of all the LED strips and other “scenic” lighting; and WYG/previz tech Kasper Dijksterhuis.

The DJs hit the dex between 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. for ten hours of nonstop dance mayhem including Armin van Buuren, Afrojack, Martin Garrix, Nicky Romero, Timmy Trumpet, Tiësto and more. Many artists brought in their own LDs or lighting operators, including Michael Seeverens, Armin van Buuren’s long time lighting director, an artist also closely connected to The Art of Light. Beekmans himself operated for the first and last two acts of the night/morning. Lighting equipment for ADF 2022 was supplied by Ampco Flashlight.

(Photos: Tim van Etten/At10)

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