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New i-Pix DB1 fixture makes dance event debut at ‘10x10’

i-Pix’s new DB1 video/beam light-source made its UK dance event debut at the 2015 Manchester International Festival (MIF)’s ‘10x10 Day & Night’, a two night collaboration between MIF and The Warehouse Project (WHP) to celebrate 10 years of both events in the city of Manchester. Manchester based lighting specialist DBN was providing lighting and visuals. The DB1s were proposed by DBN and i-Pix’ Chris Ewington.

The DB1s were used on the second of the two 12 hour events, which ran from 2 p.m. to 2 a.m. at the Mayfield Depot, a former train station in the heart of the city. 23 DB1s were arranged in four pyramids stacks on the main stage for the evening which was headlined by Carl Craig and Mike Banks. The db1s were run as both a lighting and a video fixture.

Video sources were fed into them via an Avolites Ai Infinity X8 server run by Ewington from a Tiger Touch II console. These effects were further enhanced as the DB1’s 15 LED cells were manipulated by being mapped, with strobing and intensity run as a lighting fixture by Edwin Croft from his Avo Pearl Expert console.

Combining two modes of operation enabled Croft to chop the lightsources in and out, so when DB1s were the only light on in the room they delivered slices and beams of textured light. Ewington approached the media server almost like a morphing gobo. While the video content will always stay on the ‘surface’ of the DB1, the beams of light shooting out from the LEDs inside and being moved by the video means the units can work as a companion to any moving or static lightsource also on the rig.

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