The third edition of “Cœur de Ville en lumières” was held in
Montpellier, France, from the 1st to 3rd of December.
DTS participated with its projectors to the event, that has
proposed to his audience a fascinating journey through artistic performances
and lighting installations that have enhanced the most impressive sights of
Montpellier city centre.
Event within the event was the performance ‘Rayons lux’, hosted
in the ancient ‘Hôtel St Côme’, where a giant mirror ball was installed, a
perennial emblem of dance hall golden age. The beautiful courtyard, lit with
DTS projectors, became for three nights a charming old-style dance floor, on
which a pair of tangueros created moments of sensuality and poetry, while the
mirrored ball created a symbolic continuity with the past, illuminating the
city with its rays.
The lighting designer Maurice Fouilhe, used only DTS products to
create ‘Rayon Lux’.
“For the Cœur de Ville
en lumière event, I needed a powerful LED wash for outdoor use, which could
deliver very nice and profound colors. That’s why I chose the DELTA 12, as it
can create the colors I had in mind, even to project on stone wall, as the
color gamut of the DELTA range is impressive.?
I also looked for very powerful and
bright lights for the mirror ball. The RAPTORs gave me the super powerful array
of light I wanted; as their beam is tight and the mirror ball is 2,20 m large,
I added some MAX units, so I could use their zoom in order to embrace the
complete ball, and strongly increase the beam reflections.
Besides the overall reliability of
the DTS fixtures, I was impressed by the luminosity and the color mix quality
of the DELTA, the super brightness – even dangerous – of the RAPTOR, and the
zoom range of the MAX. For sure, I will use
them again on other projects.”
