Robe Spiiders light Shlomo Artzi tour
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Gadi and his lighting associate Shlomit Lola Nehama chose to use 24 x Robe Spiider LED wash beams for a key element of his lighting rig.
This stage design was originated for the show around 2 years ago and has been modified and evolved as Shlomo has continued playing constantly – he is always in demand and will sell out any venue.
The most important aspect of the Spiiders for Gadi is the colour mixing. “I wanted a really bright light source with smooth movement and refined CMY colour mixing and all these features I find in the Spiider,” he stated.
The 24 fixtures were all hung on a semi-circular truss just downstage of a large 6mm pitch video screen, which is usually around 16 metres wide and 5 metres tall and is also in a gentle arc shape.
The overall look of the show is slick and ‘televisual’, with the screen, video content and IMAG mix prominent and present throughout the set.
The Spiiders are used for washing the mid-stage area in front, where the band are positioned and for back lighting them and Shlomo.
The show and lighting designs are very flexible to suite a diversity of venues both indoor and outdoor, allowing them to scale between 1,000 and 10,000 capacities. The stage set up can go higher and wider to suit.
There were also two Robe MegaPointes on the front truss for key lighting Shlomo, who frequently advances ideas for his stage presentation which are implemented where possible by his production team.
Gadi operates the show using a grandMA2 console and likes the live and organic nature of the show. “You never know quite what to expect,” he says.
The lighting equipment for the tour was supplied by Simul. The playback video was operated by Oren Gabay and the live camera director was Yaron Shilon.
(Jim Evans)
