Robe Tetra2s create eye-catching looks for Goose
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Indianapolis-based Andrew has worked as Goose’s LD for four years and also owns a busy lighting rental business. When he and Tony – well known for his lighting work with Billie Eilish among others – met randomly at a Goose show, they hit it off as friends and realised that a design collaboration would be the way to go for this project.
“Two minds can be better than one,” they say, and in this case, the creative results are evident onstage with Tony having worked on programming, bringing his vast fund of experience to the party, and Andrew continuing his apport with the band as their lighting designer and touring with the show.
The Tetra2s were a joint decision made by both Andrew and Tony as they started listening to the new album.
“The music was the starting point for the design, and very soon we knew we needed a moving LED batten to emphasise the vibe of the album,” explained Andrew, “and the Tetra2 stood out to us the most.”
Tony commented that while there are numerous LED batten fixtures out there right now, the Tetra2 “stands out” with its flower effects and other cool features, which together with the excellent zoom “enables us to produce a full range of dynamic design effects, and believe me, we are having had a lot of fun with them.”
“There’s no other batten that has that amazing zoom and we do some crazy stuff with it,” confirms Andrew.
On the US tour, the 16 x Tetras are an integral part of the floor package, positioned upstage on the deck on pipe-and-base stands each angled at 20 degrees to get a quirky look.
The fixtures are programmed with numerous fluid and kinetic effects to get the specific ‘drippy’ aesthetic that Andrew and Tony wanted, and they are one of the defining visual elements.
“We have some very cool ‘digital symmetry’ looks with opposite angles of the Tetra2s chasing in and out, etc., and that 20-degree rotation on the stands really adds to the visual impact and intrigue,” enthused Andrew.
Three days of production rehearsals in Pod 2 at Rock Lititz saw some concentrated programming sessions on the grandMA3 console.
Andrew always runs a Goose show with the flow of the music, but this tour saw a drive to get slightly more structured, so 16 songs are now cue-stacked, and the rest are improvised as they play.
Working alongside him on the road is lighting technician Danny McDonald who was instrumental in constructing the angled pipe-and-base stands for the Tetra2s.
