Robe BMFLs Make Italian Debut at C2C Festival

	Photo credit: Andrea Macchia and Matteo Bosonetto

Robe's new Bright Multi-Functional Luminaire (BMFL) Spots made their debut on the Italian electronic music and arts scene, featuring prominently on the main stage at the 2-day C2C (Club2Club) International Festival of Music & Arts in Turin, where they were specified by production lighting designer Walter Lutzu.

Lutzu also utilized 16 x Pointes, 12 x MMX Spots, and 12 x LEDWash 600s on his design, which had to be flexible enough to deal with an action-packed line-up of DJs and artists, all requiring their own distinctive visual styling and settings.

It was Lutzu's second year lighting the main stage at the multi-venue uber-cool event which was again set in an atmospheric disused former industrial plant in the Lingotto area of the city.

The festival ran alongside the city's Contemporary Arts Week, complete with a number of other art installations, interventions, and experiences for festival goers to enjoy.

At the Main Stage, Lutzu's lighting design also had to incorporate the requests of various visiting LDs who operated shows for their artists, plus some additional specific rider requirements for other artists including Apparat, Caribou, Chet Faker, Marcel Dettmann, and SUBTRKT.

The four BMFL Spots were positioned at two different levels on the front truss. This made it very easy for visiting LDs to integrate them into their existing shows if they wished to use them, the company says.

LD Luca Casadei made use of the various color temperature options during Franco Battiato's and Pinaxa (Pino Pischetola)'s set.

Lutzu was particularly impressed with the dual graphic wheel. "With the iris and the zoom right in, the beams can work just like projectors in quality, clarity and detail, and it's also an extremely quick fixture all round," he says.

The Pointes on the C2C Main Stage were rigged on four vertical trussing towers at the back of the stage behind the DJ booth and used for "crazy horizontal movement" effects and in-the-face beam-technology looks from upstage.

The LEDWash 600s were rigged on the over-stage trusses and used for all the base washes as well as for pulsing and zooming effects, and sometimes for strobing out into the audience. The MMX Spots were also on the over-stage trusses and used for gobo effects, texturing and specials.

Lighting--which also included several other fixtures and a wall of LED battens--was programmed on a ChamSys MQ60 console, and all the equipment was supplied by Dada Servizi Musicali from Turin.

Lutzu also worked closely with trussdesign.it, developing the lighting plot and pre-visualizing it on WYSIWYG where he could observe the BMFL Spots virtually before seeing them onstage for the first time, which helped enormously in a time-precious situation.

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