Nick Jevons Channels Power of One with CHAUVET Professional COLORado PXL Bar 16

	The two rows of PXL Bar 16 battens, flanking a large horizontal video wall on either side, ran across the entire width of the stage.

When drawing up plans for the 40m-long stage at Edinburgh's FLY Festival, lighting designer Nick Jevons opted to go with a single lighting fixture model: the CHAUVET Professional COLORado PXL Bar 16 supplied by Liteup. The rig supported a lineup of DJs including Peggy Gou and Henrik Schwarz.

"Convincing others that the concept of having one fixture type would work to deliver enough different looks for a two-day dance festival was a challenge," Jevons says. "I'm proud to say the results did not disappoint."

Another challenge was to ensure that the 39.37"-by-5.47"-by-10.75" fixtures in his design, were aligned in two straight lines, each consisting of 40 units. He credits the production team, notably Chris Canavan from 19MIL "who came up with the stage design and had faith in my lighting design," with making this arrangement work.

The two rows of PXL Bar 16 battens, flanking a large horizontal video wall on either side, ran across the entire width of the stage. The design included some atmospheric effects, but, from a lighting standpoint, no other fixtures were there to help. (A row of mirrored panels angled at 40 degrees, reflected the light from the fixtures, adding to the depth of the show with some unique angles.)

In the end, however, the PXL units generated all the lighting looks. "Drawing on this fixture's full pixel mode gave us incredible creative flexibility when it came to programming," Jevons says of his 23-universe show. "My programmer, Steve Mac, fully mixed everything live to follow the ebb and flow of the music."

Elaborating on the COLORado PXL Bar 16's performance, Jevons notes, "Thanks to the flexibility of the fixture, we could get huge looks with full intensity and then break the lighting down into individual pixels for really small, intimate looks." The smooth movements of the motorized battens, each of which has a 200-degree tilt, also added to the variety of the festival's lighting, as did their fully pixel-mappable 45W RGBW LEDs with their 5.8-to-47.9-degree zoom range.