The Coachella festival 2016 illuminates with five hundred Elation Professional systems

This music festival, which is celebrated every year in the Californian city of Indio for two consecutive weekends, has illuminated the different scenarios with the latest devices from this manufacturer.

More than five hundred units of devices Elation Professional have been deployed on stage and outside during the annual Coachella music festival 2016, recently held in the California desert and in which more than 200.000 people to see the group Guns N’ Roses and unannounced performances such as those of Rihanna or Kanye West.

The project carried out by lighting designer Steve Lieberman has included suppliers Felix Lighting y AG Productions, who have supplied more than five hundred units of different Elation Professional fixtures to illuminate the stages.

Specifically, for the Yuma stage, designed for electronic music artists, an atmosphere was created reminiscent of a large discotheque with 66 units of the new Led moving head ACL 360i, with continuous 360° rotation in Pan and Tilt.

“We were looking for a fast and reliable device for six nights in total, with electronic music artists -explains Lieberman-. The effect that Elation ACL 360i gives us is new and fast and has continuous rotation. Its beam type provided a great effect as the tent had a great height, with a good mix of color and dimming”.

The lighting setup, video, structures and stage in the Sahara tent were the responsibility of the company AG Productions, with lighting design by Koen de Puysseleir and Andrew Gumper, composed of numerous cube-shaped structures with internally illuminated perimeters of truss sections and LED video screens on their visible faces, whose objective was “for those attending this stage to have the feeling of being inside a mega-discotheque instead of in a festival tent”, Puysseleir points out.

To mark the perimeters of these cube-shaped structures, 36 RGBA Led Bar Units, of 180cm length, Colour Chorus 72, con 288 LED 3 RGBA watts (for a total power of 864 watts) and individual control over hue, saturation and intensity of each pixel.

All truss sections that made up these structures were illuminated internally with 382 units of the compact Elation Opti TRI 30, with seven RGB LEDs 3 watts (for a total of 21 watts) and a 10° beam aperture (with 25° option), in addition to 26 units of the Cuepix Blinder Warm White Led blinder 4, all of them products distributed in the Spanish market by visualsvisuals.

For the exterior lighting of the Empire Polo Club in the Californian city of Indio, The Felix Lighting company used the Color Chorus Led bar 72, to highlight the decoration of the venue, surrounded by palm trees.