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Los Angeles, March 13,
2006
The annual Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah and the Super
Bowl, this year in Detroit, are always hot tickets. But the grandMA
gained easy entry to both venues when Dierson Design Group Inc. tapped
the console for a series of Sundance-related parties and concerts as
well as concerts leading up to the big game.
Known as a real operator’s console, the grandMA is the
largest
console in MA Lighting’s range. Its three-color touchscreen
and
up to two external monitors make for an extremely comfortable
programming environment. Twenty motorized faders, a built-in keyboard,
mouse, mouse pad, trackball, and four-parameter encoders provide a
luxurious programming and playback surface. A.C.T Lighting is the
exclusive distributor of grandMA in North America.
Dierson Design Group Inc., which provides programming services, used a
grandMA console from AG Lighting at two locations at Sundance.
The first was a temporary structure for the W Las Vegas Residences,
which was promoting its loft-style apartments soon to be ready for
purchase. For the party at this site, AG Lighting
had the grandMA controlling 60 Color Kinetics Color Blast LED fixtures
plus three Martin MAC 2000 profiles and 16 Martin MAC 300s.
The second location was Harry O’s nightclub. The spot was
rented
by the owners of the Tao restaurant chain who, with sponsors Blender
Magazine, Budweiser and Absolut vodka, transformed it into a temporary
nightclub catering to the film festival’s glitterati. The
grandMA
controlled 22 Martin MAC 2000 profiles, 16 Martin MAC 300s, six Color
Kinetics Color Blast LEDs and 150 assorted conventional fixtures at
this venue.
When Tao wrapped after a week, Harry O’s owners approached AG
Lighting with the request to keep the grandMA for a series of intimate
concerts, the first of which was headlined by Metalica.
“During the course of a week the grandMA had to go from
controlling very static lighting looks to highly-dramatic rock
‘n
roll lighting to a television shoot,” notes Lighting Director
Patrick Dierson. “One of my favorite things about the grandMA
is
that it can handle any application. It’s a testament to the
console that it’s able to form fit a lounge disco party, rock
concert and televised event and run perfectly for all of our needs.
We’re able to change equipment on a whim and have the console
convert existing cueing information across different fixture
types.”
At Super Bowl XL Dierson employed two grandMA consoles, one supplied by
Ed and Ted and the other by Christie Lites. At the State Theater and
the Fox Theater, the Pepsi Smash concert series leading up to the game
featured Joan Jett, The Bangles and the legendary Four Tops. The
grandMAs and 3 NSP’s controlled, 52 Martin MAC 2000 profiles,
46
Martin MAC 2000 washes, 30 High End Systems’ StudioBeamPCs,
and
16 Martin MAC 250+ fixtures.
One grandMA also controlled a concert headlining Train, the Goo Goo
Dolls, and Nickelback which aired on VH1’s “Smash
Bash” as part of the cablenet’s pre-Super Bowl
coverage.
Artfag served as the design team for the week long series of events.
“Patrick is a grandMA veteran. I have seen him design and
program
a wide variety of shows on the console. In the hands of such a skilled
practicioner, the grandMA can do anything. This is due to the
flexibility built into the software and both the graphical and physical
user-interfaces. No other console offers the sheer amount of play-back
faders and button as the grandMA,” commented Bob Gordon,
President and CEO of A.C.T. Lighting.
MA Lighting is
exclusively distributed by A.C.T Lighting.
A leading importer and distributor of lighting products, A.C.T
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.
For more information call 818-707-0884.
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