![]() This brings us to about two weeks before the tour started, when Maria called me to go over song by song what she wanted the lights to do, and how the stage should look. "Originally, we weren't going to have strobe fixtures, but Maria missed the punch and power of not only the strobe of the fixture but also the plate of the JDC filling in negative space, using them as cyc lights, and the ability to strobe color powerfully. Null started building the rig in Capture in early August, then started changing some fixture placements, based on Brink's direction on how some songs and scenes needed to look. ![]() Null spent two months between narrowing down the design with Hardaswick and Brink and getting a final quote with some additions from Nashville lighting vendor 4Wall. So much for making it slightly bigger than our European set at this point." The perfect fixture that came to mind to build the triangle was the Martin VDO Sceptron. The big question / concern was how do we construct this triangle in a timely manner, while creating a larger than life look. The big key factor was the triangle on Maria's tent, which I hear came to Hardaswick in a dream in early 2020. That's when I picked the Chauvet R1 BeamWash for foot lights and a JDC1 strobe in the upstage and downstage corners of the deck. I needed a small quantity of strobes and foot lights, so getting powerful and versatile fixtures needed to be key. Not only are they great fixtures but Maria prefers them to other models we've had out on previous tours due to the bright illumination and spot width. The fixtures we have always used for this purpose have been Martin Axioms. "Piece by piece, we slowly built up our European design, doubling the amount of lights behind Maria, as well as placing a spot fixture behind each of the guys on stage right and left so the stage can have a giant wash or gobo heavy look behind the band. The prompt was how to do a visually larger scale show than Europe without bringing out a big production like they have in the past, up until the fall 2019 tour. The design came together after the band's return from Europe in 2019, where the production consisted of simply two low-lying foggers and two silhouette lights for Brink. The recent tour's design is the combined creativity of the band's singer Maria Brink, Production Manager/Designer Brian Hardaswick and Null. ![]() PLSN spoke with Mike Null, lighting designer, programmer and director for the 2021 tour with California rock band, In This Moment.
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