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Odesza on tour with Robe fixtures

Seattle based duo Odesza’s “A Moment Apart” tour kicked off in San Diego and Staples Center in LA and ran through Barclays Center in mid-December 2017. Their creative team led by Luke Tanaka, Sean Kusanagi and the two artists (Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight) called on Kyle Kegan of Voyage Productions to help sculpt a lightshow and add extra visuals that would work around their video and unusual overall concept.

Kegan, known for this lighting and visual designs for Major Lazer and others, specified 185 x Robe fixtures to assist him in the task, with 27 x BMFL Spots, 74 x Pointes and 84 x Spikies. “By the time we came on-board the concept design had been evolved and developed by Luke and the team, so we took that and applied practical elements like truss, motors, fixtures and all the associated production to support the overall creative design,” explains Kegan.

The Pointe became the design’s base fixture. Kegan suggested BMFL Spots as a balance. They also needed the dynamic BMFL features for lighting the architecture and as the main source of key lighting the band. The Spikie accented the structural design of the set risers and the over stage shape.

The BMFLs were rigged in three systems of 9 fixtures each, upstage, downstage and upstage on the deck. In addition to the key lighting, they highlighted the structural elements and provided textural lighting throughout the show. Their brightness cut through the ambient lighting emitted by the large LED screen at the back and differentiated them from the 84 Pointes.

The Pointes were distributed around the rig in groups of 10, with 24 used for burn-through effects from behind the video wall. Some were also rigged on ladders that framed the upstage video wall.

The 84 Spikies were positioned around the hexagonal trussing centerpiece which was flanked by two rectangular shapes, mirroring the outlines of the risers below. The hexagon also reflected the Odesza logo. In their home position, the Spikies created architectural looks around the risers. They were also used for multiple fan up and out scenes that were a visual signature of the show.

The major challenge, for which Aaron Kovelman is lighting director on the road, was getting this tour design from pre-vis to reality. Kyle Kegan used WYSIWYG to pre-program the entire show before getting to rehearsals where the fine details were polished and updated. Jack Davis, co-programmer, spent weeks with Kegan, Luke Tanaka and Aaron Kovelman in the Voyage studio pre-programming this show.

They utilized GrandMA2 for lighting control, also playing the video, lasers and SFX cues from one cohesive showfile. Clearwing Productions, based in Denver, Colorado, supplied the tour’s full technical package - rigging, lighting, sound and video.

(Photos: JG Bajsel/Jordan August Photos)

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