In fact, the site is so popular, that this NYE weekend it housed two bashes: Get Real with house tech funk icons Claude VonStroke and Green Velvet DJs on 29 December 29 and the BangON!NYC party featuring Thomas Jack and The Him on 31 December.
Both shows were juiced with eye searing lightshows designed by Spencer Lavoie and Dave Betournay of 4Life Entertainment & Technology Solutions Inc. that featured the same Chauvet Professional fixtures.
However, each show presented a different face to fans, thanks in large measure to Lavoie and Betournay's adroit rigging of PVP LED video panels on different configured truss structures made with Chauvet's TRUSST products. "We ran the totality of the panels for Get Real on night one as a large rectangle, and sent the feed from the Chauvet VIP Driver," said Lavoie. "We then rebuilt the wall quite easily for the BangON!NYC event on the second night."
On night one, the rectangular rig helped focus eyes on the centre stage. For the second night the LDs added an extras sense of depth to stage for the BangON!NYC party. They did this by building a custom overlay with an arch in three separate sections. The second night structure held 64 video panels with 10 rigging points. (Night two also included a second stage that had a ground stacked 4x2 panel video wall.)
"The TRUSST and the video panels were easy to take down and rebuild after Get Real for the BangON!NYC event," said Lavoie. "We appreciated the flexibility that this gave us. By reconfiguring the rigging, we were able to give the venue a different look on the two nights, while still keeping the essence of the lightshow from one concert to the next. The only thing that was rebuilt for the second show was the PVP video wall."
Lavoie and Betournay worked magic throughout the two nights, creating a seemingly endless array of looks that made each show stand out on its own terms, while still giving them a shared essence. To accomplish this they relied on a rig that featured 16 Rogue R2 Beam, eight Rogue R2 Spot and 12 Rogue R1 Wash fixtures, as well as two Amhaze II hazers and a Chauvet DJ Hurricane 1800 Flex fogger to work this magic. For site lighting, they used Chauvet DJ EZ Wedge Tri and SlimPAR fixtures.
(Jim Evans)
