Professional Lighting & Production - Winter 2017 | Page 17

Canadian indie rock stars Arcade Fire are currently on their
Infinite Content North American tour. For this trek, Chris Bushell
is operating the lights, working under the creative direction of
Tarik Mikou from Quebec-based production company Moment
Factory. The band wanted to play in-the-round with a sporting
In Quebec’s historic Ste-Famille
Church, which was founded over
300 years ago by the first bishop of
Nouvelle France, the architectural
flourishes and stunning frescoes now
glow with a new radiance thanks
to an all-LED lighting design by
Philippe Péquignot that features a
collection of Chauvet Professional
fixtures supplied by Montreal’s XYZ
Technologie Culturelle. “Our mis-
sion was to showcase the church and
its frescoes without detracting from
the original aesthetics of the building
or its artwork,” says Charles Cadieux
of XYZ. For this, Péquignot specified
10 Ovation Min-E-10CW compact
ellipsoidals, one Ovation F-95 WW
Fresnel, 31 COLORdash Batten-Quad
12s, 12 COLORdash Batten-Quad 6
RGBA linear washes, and 15 COLOR-
dash S-Par 1 RGBA fixtures.
event feel, based around a live, visceral video and lighting produc-
tion that formed the scenography over and around the boxing
ring stage. The lighting vendor is PRG Las Vegas, which supplied
large quantities of GLP’s X4 Bar 20s and Bar 10s and the new JDC1
hybrid strobe.
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