MA Video + Rock in Rio

The 2008 editions of Rock in Rio – staged in Lisbon and Madrid – benefited from the skills of lighting designer Danny Nolan using a host of MA Lighting controllers. These included the grandMA full-size as standard lighting console for the stage lighting and a grandMA full-size as backup, with a third grandMA full-size plus six NSPs in place for scenic and audience lights as well as for controlling three grandMA video media servers.
Nolan explained his design: “Rock In Rio is a festival attended by many lighting designers all trying to produce their own individual style needed for their specific show. The design has to include a wide range of fixtures and tools that are easy and quick to create different looks. Rock In Rio festival has always had a tradition for large set designs and that also played a large part in the overall lighting design. I think the major new design aspect of Rock In Rio was the LED architectural lighting. We used more then 190 colorpix v8s all pixel mapped via a grandMA video media server. This gave an incredible large scale low-res effect over the whole stage and scenic panels. We were able, via the pixel mapping, to very easily produce simple block colours and chases as well as low-res moving media content. The real beauty was that the further away you were the more the movement came alive giving even the people at the very back of the park a real feel for what was happening on stage.”