“It was a simple choice to use the EC-10,” he states. “I had used the EC-20 panels for last year’s show and loved it. When I was presented with the option to use the EC-10, I jumped at it.”

A large EC-10 wall upstage center provided a stunning backdrop while graphics spilled onto surrounding columns of Martin LC Series™ LED video panels with MAC 101™ LED wash lights mounted under each. Dacosta also had EC-10 panels mounted around FOH for IMAG.

“It worked out great. I love the look of the video, the quality is awesome, not to mention how quickly it went up,” Dacosta says of the high performance, 10 mm pixel pitch LED video panel. “I wanted to make the video seem bigger so I used 40 mm LC panels separated with a custom plate that had three MAC 101s.”

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11.04, Era, Crocus City Hall

12.04, Era, Crocus City Hall

26.04, Scorpions, Crocus City Hall

27.04, Scorpions, Crocus City Hall

28.04, Accept, Milk Club

29.04, Scorpions, Crocus City Hall

Single-lens wash with fully premixed color Broad color palette, RGBW color mixing Uniform shades 11 to 58° zoom 3850 lm output Aura eye-candy effects Built-in FX engine Rapid movement High efficiency, low power consumption, long lifetime Compact, low weight design (5.6 kg)

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07.03, U.D.O, Milk Club

15.03, NightWish, Crocus City Hall

18.03, Anthrax, Milk Club

25.03, Excalibur, Crocus City Hall

Drummer Tomas Haake has issued the following warning:
“As always, we try to take our music in a slightly different direction with each album and with Koloss we feel that we really nailed what we were going for. Organic brutality, viscera and groove all crammed into a 54-minute metalicious treat, best avoided by the faint of heart!!”

2008’s obZen has sold over 82,000 copies in the U.S. and debuted at #59 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, clinched the #14 spot on the iTunes Top Rock Albums chart, was the #1 Most Added metal album on the CMJ Loud Rock and FMQB radio charts

Alive, the first DVD in Meshuggah’s career released in 2010, debuted at #8 on the Nielsen SoundScan Top Music DVD Video chart.

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18.02, Amon Amarth, Milk Club

22.02, Opeth, Milk Club

25.02, Wowrld Of Drum&Bass, Arena Moscow

Ignite Architects developed the idea of a “heart” space – an interactive and engaging area that people could gravitate to – and, as much of the imagery symbolizing what New Zealanders hold dear is focused on trees, the Pou Manawa was born.

The Exterior 410s, an award-winning RGBW color mixing fixture with pre-mixed LEDs, provide a wash of color across the canopy. It is an ideal luminaire for installations like Pou Manawa in which the projection distance is short.

“We had an exhaustive period of early testing to get the best fixture for the projection,” says Chris McKenzie of Martin distributor Kenderdine Electrical Ltd. “We had other color changing fixtures specified but when the Exterior 410s became available we changed the specification to use them. The 410s were the perfect solution for the wash units and whilst an indoor installation, the passive cooling on the units was a major bonus.”

Working with the Exterior 410s are smartMACs, a bright profile light and image projector with six indexable rotating gobos. The designs float across the complex patterned internal surface of the tree in a continuous 360-degree rotation.

“The smartMAC won out for its long lamp life and low maintenance needs,” states McKenzie. “We had a large area of south-facing glass pouring light into the area and after treatment of the glass, the smartMAC was able to generate enough light to do the job successfully.”

Twenty-four smartMACs and a like number of Exterior 410s are used in the installation, which runs 21 hours per day, 365 days per year. Programming was done on a Martin Maxxyz PC™ and Martin M1™ console with initial design and renderings completed using the Martin ShowDesigner™. All gobos are Apollo stock steel and glass or custom glass.

There are six main themes that are reflected through the 36-minute cycle of Pou Manawa: Ocean, Flax, Fern, Night Sky, Sunrise/Sunset and Pohutakawa. The intricate designs were created by Kingi Gilbert and depict New Zealand carvings, nature and birds and relate to travel, flight, voyaging, movement across vast expanses, oceans, airways, guidance and hospitality.

The project, a collaboration between a number of players, won an excellence award in the 2011 New Zealand IES National Lighting Awards and has proved quite popular with travelers.

Original Concept: Ignite Architects
Tree Projection Concept: Logan Brewer Design Ltd, Logan Brewer
Projection and Lighting Design: Kenderdine Electrical Ltd, Chris McKenzie
Projection & Image Rendering: Hi Lighting Ltd, Steve Renwick
Lighting Installation: Kenderdine Electrical Ltd
Tree Structure Design & Construction: Fabric Structure Systems, Adrian Bosch
Projection Story & Image Concept: The Greenroom, Michael Knapp, Khayt Hanarah
Original Image Artwork Design: Kingi Gilbert
Projection and Lighting Programming: Steve Renwick & Glenn Stewart
Auckland Airport Ltd Project Manager: Duncan Stuart

Martin equipment:
24 x Exterior 410™
24 x smartMAC™

For more information contact your local Martin distributor or PR Coordinator Larry Beck at Martin Professional at:

Telephone: +45 40 80 57 03
E-mail: larry.beck@martin.dk

Phone/Fax: +7 (495) 300-05-19, 305 86 45

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