Mike Baldassari, production designer for the current Alice In Chains tour, Baldassari chose four Cyberlight 2.0's to backlight the four band members. By fitting the moving performers with tiny infrared trackers, the Cyberlight 2.0's can track the movement of the performers anywhere on stage, regardless of how fast they move. "Because the only thing that pans and tilts on a Cyberlight 2.0 is the mirror, the light beam can move very very quickly," Baldassari states. "During rehearsal the band members intentionally tried to outrun the Cyberlights and they couldn't do it."
According to Marty Postma, lighting and video director for Alice In Chains, the fixture's configuration means easier installation and more room on stage for other effects like video projection. "An interesting benefit of the Cyberlight 2.0 is that when you hang it sideways, as we have, it fits a lot tighter into the truss and doesn't hang as low as some of the moving heads," Postma says.
For Bon Jovi's The Circle Tour, lighting designer Justin Collie specified Cyberlight 2.0 fixtures due to the speed of the mirror movement. "It's been a long time since we used mirrored fixtures," says Collie. "The Cyberlight 2.0's worked great, just like we pictured them."
Lighting designer Marc Brickman uses 20 Cyberlight 2.0 fixtures as the centerpiece of John Mayer's Battle Studies world tour. The fixtures are hung in moving pods each consisting of two fixtures hung in opposite orientations. Throughout the production the pods continually reposition to create dynamic looks on stage. Because only the mirror moves on the Cyberlight 2.0 fixtures, the fixtures always move smoothly as the pods fly around the stage.
(Jim Evans)
