Tony Caporale Immerses on BUNT Tour with CHAUVET Professional Fans filling venues on German DJ BUNT's current global tour aren't just seeing (or hearing) a show, they're immersing themselves in a deep sea of evocative flutter house music -- and there right alongside them, is the red hot artist from Stuttgart, helped by a "barrier-free" production design. "BUNT shows don't follow your typical format, where fans are barricaded off from the stage," says Tony Caporale, lighting designer for the current global tour, which ends later this month in Australia. "There are no boundaries. Bunt's DJ booth is smack dab in the middle of the venue floor with the audience surrounding him. He wants to share the experience with the fans up close and personal." Reflecting this philosophy, Caporale, of Infinitus Vox, creates a "perimeter of light" around BUNT and his fans. This, he says, "allows everyone to be in the moment with him from start to finish." Lighting an in-the-round DJ booth on a multi-city tour is not without its challenges. "We've had to retrofit the design at each venue, especially since we're always in the middle of the floor," says Caporale. "Analyzing the venue specs and figuring out placement of the lighting package to remain consistent was the biggest task. Sometimes, you have to get inventive given the space." Maintaining consistency during the tour was made easier by having the same fixtures in the show's rig, even though the sources supplying it sometimes changed. At the heart of this rig were 20 Color STRIKE M motorized strobe-washes and eight COLORado PXL Bar 8 tilting battens from CHAUVET Professional. "At every show, we surround the entire venue floor with Color STRIKE Ms, there is nowhere to hide!" says Caporale. "These fixtures were our main workhorse. They really brought the crowd and artist together when we lit the entire floor with them during hard hitting EDM beats." 
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