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Austin Zangi reflects span of Seether’s music on tour with ChamSys

South African rock band Seether’s 24-city coheadline tour with Daughtry, which concluded November 15, 2025, in Fort Lauderdale, was supported by an Austin Zangi lightshow run on a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M Stadium console.

“All of the songs have their own feel and vibe”, says Zangi, who programmed his cue stacked show on the MQ250M using Capture as his visualizer. “My initial setlist and design was to build the show up gradually, using more lights as things progressed”, he shares. Zangi immersed the stage with deep shadowy looks. “My artists like dark and moody”, he says. “So, I tried to keep it on the darker side throughout the show only accenting certain parts such as the solos and core interaction moments with the fans.”

When he accented those moments, Zangi held nothing back, unleashing some nuclear backlighting often in intense monochromatic palettes, silhouetting the performers on stage. “I used silhouettes in a lot of the intros, breakdowns and endings as my singer prefers this compared to having front light”, he explains. “It just takes the attention more away from the individual band members and allows the audience to enjoy the music. There is quite a bit of improvised parts in some songs, and the band is just grooving during these. My monochromatic palettes were added in the last few days of programming after getting inspiration from other designers.”

Although most of his 44-universe show was cue stacked, Zangi did busk at points during some songs. “There was no click or tracks, just an authentic rock and roll show”, he concludes.

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