Russian Star Performs Under 136 PR Lighting Xl Units

PR Lighting's Belarus distributors, FE Belimlight, needed to draw on almost their entire inventory of PR fixtures recently to meet an extravagant lighting design created by Siarhei Koltsov (from FE's production company, Blackout Studio).

The set was for a concert by Russian rock stars Vyacheslav Butusov and Jupiter in front of 7,000 people at the Minsk Sports Palace - and no fewer than 136 fixtures from the Chinese manufacturer were on duty. These were made up of 48 each of PR Lighting's XL 1500 Spot and Wash Lights and 20 each of the XL 700 Spot and Wash.

The 1,500W short-arc discharge fixture is PR Lighting's most powerful head. Its power output and versatility are enhanced by the high quality, super efficient optical system making them among the brightest projectors in the market.

Blackout Studio has a long-standing relationship with the artist's management, and having provided standard production for the rest of the tour, decided to add extra fixtures for the Belarus event.

Asked about his aim with the lighting, Koltsov simply said, "To rock the audience by creating an individual look for each song." Preprogramming was done using CAST WYSIWYG visualization software to ensure that the lighting and video for each song were carefully sculpted.

Since the concert started slowly, with the tempo building towards a crescendo the end, he said it was important that the lighting kept pace with the performance.

To accomplish this, the XL1500s and XL700s were used extensively for front-fill, placed on different trusses (and on the stage) to create different looks. Blackout Studio say the combination of the PR Lighting discharge moving heads along with other halogen moving PARs combined to produce really interesting and dynamic textures.