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Los Angeles, November
16, 2006
Lighting director/programmer Graeme Nicol has parlayed his many years
experience using the grandMA to employing the console on
Shakira’s Oral Fixation tour now wrapping up the year in the
singer’s native Colombia, Chile and Argentina. A.C.T Lighting
is
the exclusive distributor of the grandMA in North America.
“I find you never stop learning on the grandMA,”
says
Nicol. “There’s always something new to learn to
use the
console to the max. Shakira’s tour is more of a rock show
than
I’ve been doing lately with a lot of flash and boom. We have
an
interesting set up of 134 moving lights run via SMPTE. The keyboard
tech runs tracks, which are striped with SMPTE. He starts his tracks,
which sends SMPTE out to me, and the grandMA runs the lighting cues.
It’s a very interesting concept.”
The show’s complement of moving lights consists of 34 Clay
Paky
Alpha spots with custom gobos, 40 MAC 2000 washes, 48 PC beams, and 12
VARI*LITE 2402/2500s. Eight Atomic 3K strobes and hundreds of egg
strobes are also featured.
In addition, the bitmap feature on the grandMA was used to program a
number of images and words (i.e. the word “No”) on
a huge
'pixel screen' comprised of a 10x18 wall of background PAR 64s.
“I’ve been on the grandMA a long time and like
it,”
Nicol reports. “The last show I did used a different console,
and
I was very frustrated not being able to do what I was used to. When
Shakira’s tour came up one of the selling points for me was
that
the gig was on the grandMA.”
"This is another tour that employs a team of consummate pros, Abby, Dan
and Graeme. I know that they appreciate the grandMA and that the
grandMA has allowed them to do things easily that they would find
difficult, if not impossible. When you couple this with the style and
pace of Shakira’s show, the result has made us all proud,"
commented Bob Gordon, President and CEO of A.C.T Lighting.
Abigail Rosen Holmes is the lighting designer for the tour; Daniel
Boland, the original lighting director and programmer, left the tour in
Nicol’s hands when he left to work on another show.
MA Lighting is
exclusively distributed by A.C.T Lighting.
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Lighting, Inc. strives to identify future trends and cutting-edge
products, and stock, sell and support their inventory. The company
provides superior customer service and value for money to all of its
clients.
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