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ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M console selected for Chinese Man tour

Chinese Man’s current “We’ve Been Here Before” tour is a 20-year retrospective of the French trip hop trio’s career. Lighting and production designer Drichos runs the show on his ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M Stadium console. “The specifications and the mood board for this show were ambitious, as the last album and this tour is a look back on the musical journey of the group”, he says, adding that he was given carte blanche by the band when creating the design.

Drichos created a design marked by contrasts of light and shadows, silhouettes, images, and a gyroscope that underscores the dimension of time. “The idea of the Gyroscope immediately seemed obvious to me when starting this design”, he says. “It represents the cycle, the verticality, the journey through time. So I based the scenography and the lighting of the show on this gyroscope by vectorizing my ‘3D ideas’.”

“This very ambitious proposal immediately seduced the artists when we proposed it to them”, continues Drichos. “We can even see pieces of gyroscope on the cover of the album. So, we launched the production of three gyroscopes of 2.5 m wingspan. Two of the rings are motorized by gyroscope with infinite rotation and matrix LED cladding. Each gyroscope supped above each top of each top of each musician and motorized by nine winches.”

Taking this vision a step further, Drichos conceptualized and created three platforms and desks for the musicians with pixel-mappable LED strips representing half gyroscopes. He also had a see-through video screen arching around them to immerse the audience in their timeless universe. Drichos credits his team - Electrician & Network Manager Mathieu Zangrillo and Technical Direction Creator Deadline, as well as Kellook who assembled the gyroscope - with “making the show work to perfection”.

He also has praise for his ChamSys desk. “The choice of the console for this tour seemed obvious to me right away, so I opted for a MQ500M”, he says, adding that to him, “the morphing possibility for the patch is essential on tour and at festivals to save time retyping shows with the available local lighting fixtures, as well as the patch offset for the positions of the fixture.” Given the number of universes demanded by his gyroscopes, Drichos says he had another reason to select the MQ500M as it supports up to 256 universes direct from the console.

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