Italian superstar Vasco Rossi completed his Live
Kom 15 stadium tour in a blaze of glory with a production designed by the
combined talents of set company Gioforma and long term lighting designer
Giovanni Pinna, which also incorporated substantial video elements with screen
content managed and controlled via grandMA2 light.
The edgy industrial stage aesthetic featured
scenic video made up from Pixled’s F-37 product, plus an epic IMAG video
presence ensuring that everyone, even those at the back and to the sides of the
stadiums, received a great view as well as those closer to the action.
The tour completely sold out, so nearly a
million fans experienced the full glory of Rossi – one of the industry’s
classic showmen – and his legendary live performance.
All the scenic video control was run via two
media servers being triggered by a grandMA2 light console in a custom control
system specified and provided by show visual specialists M2L from Milan. M2L’s
Marco Piva commented, “grandMA2 is our video – and lighting – control platform
of choice for its power, stability and flexibility.”
Almost 200 square metres of Pixled F-37 made up
the significant ‘ambient’ video elements of the set. Nine large surfaces –
eight strips and a central section – sat behind the aluminium set structure,
upstage centre – right at the core of the action. These screens were all fed
with content from the media servers via the grandMA2 light, running over Art-Net,
and could be controlled individually or together.
The F-37 product was also used to border eight
lighting pods which flew in and out from the ceiling above centre stage, with
content also stored on and replayed from the media servers and the grandMA2
light. The video material was specially created for the tour by Mikkel Garro
from Roof Videodesign.
Four large portrait orientated video screens
relayed the live IMAG images of Rossi as he delivered his stadium rock
masterpiece. These were made up of Compass 8 mm HD LED product and were fed by
four operated broadcast quality cameras and three GoPro mini-cams with all
feeds sub-mixed via the video department’s PPU and output directly to screen.
Marco and his business partner Marco De Nardi
own two grandMA2 lights, two MA onPC command wings, a grandMA full-size – so
they are big fans of the MA brand.
As is Giovanni Pinna, who used a grandMA2 full-size
to run the show’s spectacular lighting plus another as hot backup. “They are
absolutely great desks for rock ‘n’ roll,” he enthused.
The lighting grandMA2 were supplied by rental
company BOTW together with the rest of the lighting kit and the set. Sound was
delivered by Audio Rent and lasers came from ER in the UK.
Molpass s.r.l. is the exclusive distributor of MA Lighting in Italy.
Photos: © Louise Stickland
