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ChamSys pioneers Sig-Net with live test at Womad Festival

At the Big Top Tent at Womad Festival in Neston, UK, a ChamSys MagicQ MQ500M+ was used to control a ChamSys GeNetix GN8 running Sig-Net protocol controlling 100 fixtures on six universes of lighting.

According to lighting designers Will Thomas and Chris Kennedy, Sig-Net ran flawlessly both during the build and over the four show days, controlling the lighting for over twenty artists from all over the world including KOG, Kofi Stone, Emma-Jean Thackray, Barrut, José González and Mádé Kuti.

Thomas and Kennedy put the lighting through its paces, with moments of transcendent calm and furious flashing. Sig-Net performed without any latency, flickering or routing issues, the LDs, who swapped between the main and backup consoles, note. The stage team also included Nikki Dickinson and Katy Jane Lord.

Sig-Net is a free-to-use protocol designed by Singularity (UK) Ltd and created by Art-Net inventor Wayne Howell. All new lighting equipment must support secure lighting protocols by the end of 2027 to be compliant with the incoming European Cyber Resilience Act. Sig-Net enables a full secure remote management and diagnostic interface to ease network configuration issues and uses Multicast Folding to overcome the scaling and routing issues of sACN. In addition, RDM, Timecode, MIDI and OSC can all be sent over Sig-Net securely.

Lighting for all stages at Womad was provided by TSL Lighting based in Basingstoke with the support of Account Director Ian Turner. ChamSys consoles were used throughout the site on five stages.

(Photos: ChamSys)

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