Onedot, CHAUVET Gear Generate STRIK-ing Looks at Lumen Festival

	Onedot's design team hung illuminated bars on kinetic winches from the vaulted ceiling over the dance floor.

The Quebec-based design and production firm Onedot recently designed lighting for the three-day Lumen Festival produced by Produkt, the Montreal-based experiential marketing and lifestyle brand firm, at New City Gas, a local site that, going back to 1849, served as a generating station.

The hard-edged venue still bears witness to its industrial heritage, and the designers at Onedot played on this aura to create an intense, aggressive show that bristled with kinetic energy while supporting performances by Timmy Trumpet, Gordo, Adventure Club, and other EDM stars.

Onedot's design team hung illuminated bars on kinetic winches from the vaulted ceiling over the dance floor. Crossing over the room, these bars added to the raw edginess of the performances, carving up the overhead space with pulsating lines of color. The kinetic aspect also allowed the design team to shape and redefine the space during the performances. The monochromatic washes immersed the room, setting a transformative mood and alternately taking on a darker, moodier tone.

Divided into vertical sections, the onstage video backdrop displayed abstract geometric patterns in stark white against an icy blue background, adding to the intensity level and embracing the visual signature of the festival.

Complementing the video element and tying it to the rest of the room were 36 CHAUVET Professional Color STRIKE M fixtures supplied by local gear house CR34TE. Almost half of the motorized strobe washes were hung on vertical columns running between sections of the stage video wall. The remaining Color STRIKE units were arranged in the ceiling over the dance floor.

"We positioned the Color STRIKE M units in an array to complement the powerful video elements on stage so we could continue the visual pattern throughout the room," says Onedot's Jean-Sebastien Guilmette. "The Color STRIKE Ms served us well as strobes and as color washes. We mapped individual pixels to create a wide variety of unique visual patterns. This supported the video images very well."

The Lumen Festival took place in December.