“We can do quick blips and super-fast strobe hits with a few pixels at a time, very small,” he explains. Norman replicates that with the blow-through fixtures. “They are attached to vertical Tinker ladders spaced every eight feet to make a square grid so they blow light through the LED screen,” Norman says.Ībout half of Post Malone’s songs feature a kind of audio glitch motif in their tracks that the Post Touring creative team wanted to integrate into the design.
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By contrast, used full force the MagicPanels can make our big 750-fixture rig look even more massive.”Īn additional 32 MagicPanel FX are positioned behind the 76 x 38-foot blow-through LED wall upstage in an 8 x 4 configuration. With their pixel flexibility I can create a shape with just the outer ring or cue a few pixels at a time for a small, quite intimate look for specific moments instead of a bright wash. Since MagicPanel FXs are square-facing fixtures they match up well with the runways. We have circle deck stages and long rectangular runways so I didn’t want a circular fixture overhead. “The MagicPanel FXs are an awesome fixture that work with the overall design of the show. “They act like runway top lights and also create nice streaks of light,” says Norman. He chose 56 MagicPanel FX fixtures, supplied by PRG, mounted on Tyler GT truss above the runways, which create a wall of beams that form illuminated pathways from stage to stage. In the same way that the runways connect the stages, Norman was looking for a fixture that would connect the six circular overhead, automated lighting pods to the stages, which can be as much as 60 feet apart. “Post Malone enjoys walking around and communicating with the audience, so the individual 12-foot wide stages put him as close as possible to them,” Norman explains.
“I find their colour mixing to be more accurate than a lot of other fixtures I’m super happy with the colour mixing on their spots and profiles.”įor the Twelve Carat Tour the Post Touring creative team approached Norman with a design of seven circle deck stages connected by runways. “As Ayrton moves forward with LED sources they’ve become my go-to product line,” says Norman. MagicPanel FX features a unique optical zoom system and is comprised of a 5 x 5 array of squared lenses it offers exciting creative possibilities for both 2D graphical effects and, with its powerful beam, extraordinary 3D volumetric effects. Norman has a history of using Ayrton fixtures having deployed 52 MagicBlade FX units for Malone’s festival run and an array of Khamsin, Diablo, Huracan and Intellipix fixtures on other gigs.
Norman previously designed one-off shows and a festival run for Malone last year, acted as the lighting designer for his Billboard Awards 2020 performance, and assisted on Malone’s Runaway Tour in 2019. The new tour reunites Malone with Dan Norman, owner of LA-based Evolve Lights, Inc., who serves as his lighting designer and technical director. The North American tour kicked off on 10 th September in Omaha and will wrap in mid-November with a pair of dates in Los Angeles.
Post Malone’s Twelve Carat Tour is in support of his new album, Twelve Carat Toothache.
The Ayrton and MA Lighting brands are both exclusively distributed in North America by ACT Entertainment. Ayrton MagicPanel FX light the way for Post Malone on his Twelve Carat Tour with lighting design by Dan NormanĮighty-eight Ayrton MagicPanel FX multi-function luminaires, controlled by a grandMA3 lighting console, play a key role as Post Malone’s Twelve Carat Tour gets underway this fall.
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