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Elation ACL 360i back wall for Luke Bryan tour

Elation ACL 360i back wall for Luke Bryan tour

Wanting to get back to a bigger lighting look for country music star Luke Bryan’s current “Kill the Lights” tour, lighting designer Justin Kitchenman of FadeUp Design Group created an upstage wall of lighting effects using 100 Elation Professional ACL 360i narrow-beam LED fixtures.

 

In Kitchenman’s design, the ACL 360i fixtures are mounted to the back of a video wall that is comprised of (10) 1 m wide by 5 m high columns. Each column is on an automated system that tracks side to side with full rotation capabilities and has 10 ACL 360is mounted to the back of it.

 

Kitchenman, who is in his fifth year with the country music star and also serves as co-production designer along with Pete Healey, uses the ACL 360i fixtures in a variety of configurations. “We have looks where it’s a ‘full wall’ with 100 ACL 360is in a matrix of light,” he says. “We use them in alternating columns of video and ACL 360is, and we have looks where we have gaps in the video columns and the ACL 360is are focused through those gaps.”

 

Luke Bryan’s 2015 “Kick the Dust Up” tour utilized Elation’s white light Cuepix Blinders and Kitchenman is using them again on the current tour. “We use both the Cuepix Blinder WW2 and the Cuepix Blinder WW4 and have them placed on every truss throughout the rig.” Kitchenman uses 24 of the WW2 version and 16 of the WW4 version in the rig.

 

Lighting and video gear supply for the “Kill the Lights” tour is by Nashville-based Elite Multimedia Productions, who has been a partner with Luke Bryan since day one of his career. Crew Chief: Chris Hummel. Dimmer/ System Tech: Brian Palmer. Dimmer/Lighting Tech: Curtis “Lucky” Anthony. Lighting Tech: Kurt Rentchler. Lighting Tech: Chris Gilliam. Lighting Tech: Derek “Magnum” LaFrance. Elite Multimedia: Tom Wilson, Monty Raines, Jason “Cannonball” Jenkins.

 

(Photos: Todd Kaplan)

 

www.elationlighting.com

 

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