Barco rocks at 40th edition of Roskilde Festival
Kortrijk, Belgium, 1 July 2010. Barco, a world leader in visualization solutions, is proud to announce it lights up the Orange Stage during the Roskilde Festival 2010. The festival takes place from 1 to 4 July and uses a combination of High End Systems automated luminaires and Axon Media Servers to bring a series of stunning effects to the festival's stages.
Roskilde Festival is the largest open-air culture and music festival in northern Europe. Its grounds have room for six different stages, 150 bands, 75,000 visitors and 25,000 volunteers. With capacity for 60,000 people, the Orange Stage is the largest of the six and welcomes bands such as Gorillaz, Alice In Chains, Muse, the Prodigy, Motörhead, Prince and many more.
The Orange Stage's lighting rig includes Barco's High End Systems Cyberlight 2.0, SHOWGUN 2.5, and SHOWBEAM 2.5 automated lights. In addition, the Arena Stage uses Axon Media Servers as the main source for the video. The equipment and support is provided by Bico Professionel in cooperation with Barco. “The SHOWGUN and SHOWBEAM lights are great to use in such a big festival,” says Kenneth Jakobsen from Bico Professionel. “Their extreme brightness brings the most impressive effects to a show.”
“Designing for the Orange Stage is a challenge due to its special construction,” says lighting designer Lars Nissen from Comtech. “The Cyberlight 2.0 is ideal to use under the orange canopy. It offers high speed and flexibility and has enough brightness for use during a summer festival.”
“Roskilde's Orange Stage is legendary,” says Chris Colpaert, Barco's VP of creative lighting. “They always present the best in lighting and deliver the most spectacular productions. SHOWGUN and SHOWBEAM are very powerful lights that are made for big stages like these. Next to this, it's great to see moving mirrors come back to festivals – and we expect more to follow.”
Rooted in the legendary Cyberlight fixture of the 1990s, Cyberlight 2.0 is a modern piece of engineering that merges power with speed and precision control. Cyberlight 2.0's 30,000 lumens of pure light output is directed via an on-board high-speed moving mirror, with smooth motion at all speeds. Fixed and rotating LithoPatterns® unique glass effects and the new TriColor effect provide an infinite palette of colors and creative options for amazing lighting effects.
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Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization products for a variety of selected professional markets. Barco has its own facilities for Sales & Marketing, Customer Support, R&D and Manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Barco (NYSE Euronext Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with about 3,300 employees worldwide. Barco posted sales of 638 million euro in 2009.
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