Russian hard rock
band Alisa recently released their 21st studio album Circus. This was launched in grandiose
style with a performance at the Palace of Sport in St. Petersburg, effectively
simulating a circus tent experience on stage.
These legends of
Russian rock attracted around 8,000 fans to this special concert, and naturally
the scenic dynamic had to be extraordinary.
For their stage
lighting set, the design crew, consisting of lighting designer Andrej Lukashov,
production manager Anton Gerasimov and performance designer Aljiona Morozova,
selected the LB-100 LED balls from SGM as their lighting centrepiece.
Each LB-100
string is 0.85m long and composed of seven RGB LED balls with a pixel pitch of
120mm. Rental company Euroshow supplied the 864 strings of LB-100, creating a
large-scale graphic LED curtain comprising a total 6,048 LED balls. This grand
setup was run off 18 drivers.
“With the ability to control the lighting effects, we could
create saturated and bright colours for a vibrant graphic element of the show,”
comments Alexandr Blednykh, director of Euroshow. System engineer and console
operator Alex Evstifeev deployed the principles of pixel mapping via DMX.
“A lot of people and colleagues, who had the opportunity to
evaluate our work personally or by photo and video, were impressed by the
implementation of the equipment – particularly the LB-100, which made it
possible to produce such beautiful scenery and mid-air dynamic effects.”
