Frederic Fayard and Concept K Call on CHAUVET Professional at Rock En Seine

	"The mission of the Strike M was crucial. They surrounded the full stage, including video screen, and they underlined each moving truss within the stage," says Fayard.

Frederic "Aldo" Fayard and his Concept K team designed the main stage and the Boursobank Stage rigs at Paris' Rock En Seine festival. The main stage, which played host to The Cure; Tyler, the Creator; and the Deftones, among others, measured 78.7' wide and 59' deep (almost half used as backstage), with key light truss reaching as high as 39.3'.

Fayard and his colleagues, led by on-site designer Stephane Courtillot, expanded the look of the stage further with video wall extensions, plus the artful placement of CHAUVET Professional STRIKE 4 and Color STRIKE M fixtures.

This move added 131' to the look of the stage. The Concept K design harmonized the big stage and brought it into focus for fans who were as far as 492' away on the festival grounds by framing it and its flanking video walls in light. "The mission of the Strike M was crucial," says Fayard, when discussing the decision. "They surrounded the full stage, including video screen, and they underlined each moving truss within the stage."

The rig, consisting of 213 fixtures, was supplied by Dushow (including 18 STRIKE Array 4s and 52 Color STRIKE Ms). It allowed for a striking array of looks. "We are not magicians, but we know Rock En Seine very well," Aldo says. "This was our 21st edition, and we spend a lot of time in advance to analyze the riders. We then proposed the 'creme de la creme,' equipment that our team is able to use to satisfy the bands."

Boursobank Stage "hosted more bands without their own LD, so we had to build something very efficient as fast as possible," Aldo says. "The time slots were also shorter, the backstage area was less spacious, and the teams involved were smaller, so we needed to be efficient in terms of installation, changeovers, and dismantling."

Like the main stage, the smaller stage also had a Dushow-suppled rig, featuring 18 STRIKE Array 4s and 38 Color STRIKE Ms. "We found a good solution for the main stage, and we used exactly the same philosophy for the second stage," says Fayard.