When Brazilian Latin Grammy Award-winner
Ivete Sangalo recently celebrated her 20th anniversary in the business, she did
so by recording a DVD called IS20. This took place at the large Arena Fonte
Nova stadium in Brazil’s first capital of Salvador, which with its capacity of
52,048 will also be hosting some of the FIFA World Cup matches later this year.
Spectrun Design e Iluminação was in charge
of the design concept and execution, and to fulfil the task of illuminating the
grand stadium, they selected a large-scale package of SGM light equipment,
including 200 X-5 white LED strobes, 66 P-5 RGB wash lights, 40 SixPack
blinders and 24 Giotto Synthesis 700 Wash.
Accommodating Sangalo’s audience of 40,000
people, while at the same time illuminating the stadium was the challenge
facing Marcos Olivio from Spectrun Design e Iluminação when developing his
design concept.
“The initial idea was to have the entire
stadium lit, complementing the lights on the stage,” stated Olivio. “LED
technology has made the challenge of illuminating large arenas or stadiums
simpler and more economical. The energy requirement for these big shows is now
much smaller and at the same time this new equipment provides a much greater
intensity.
“Before SGM’s LED technology, we had to use
PAR 64 lamps with large power generators and a lot of fixtures to illuminate
large stadiums. Then came moving light washes, but the rental of these was too
expensive. However, LED really started to change the very concept of lighting
while still leaving room to continue evolving.”
The X-5s and SixPacks were positioned to
form a back wall on the stage, while the P-5s were used to illuminate the white
ceiling of the stadium, creating the perfect glow for the audience to safely
cross the huge area.
Meanwhile, the back wall was created to
provide effect-packed movement of light ‘dancing’ across the wall, keeping pace
with Ivete Sangalo’s intense, upbeat and contagious music. Olivio underlines
that for him the choice was simple when opting for the SGM equipment. “It was
down to the intensity of all the LED fixtures combined with low power
requirement. Can you imagine using 200 traditional 3000W strobes for this show?
What an energy consumption”, he smiles. Furthermore, it was the colour range of
the SGM products that also caught his interest.
Spectrun Design e Iluminação had previously
tested the SGM product portfolio with full assistance from SGM’s exclusive
brand representative in Brasil, LBO. “This made it much easier to choose the
appropriate equipment to fulfil the lighting design concept. We have now
mastered the equipment and are aware of its full potential”, the designer
explains.
The singer-songwriter, Ivete Sangalo, will
shortly be touring in Brazil with a light show and Marcos Olivio confirms that
“there will definitely be X-5s in this project”.
