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FUEGO


Company: coolux Location: Las Vegas, USA


Alex Doss is a scenic designer with an impressive track record in the area of creating unforgettable club, theatre and event experiences. Using his work in the Las Vegas Fuego nightclub in the Rio Casino as an example, he explained why the coolux Pandoras Box is one of the most powerful weapons in his quest for excellence: “Pandoras Box is the perfect tool when it comes to creating the exact kind of environment crucial to my design needs.” Not only is the Pandoras Box a key technical element in his designs, it is also the one component that steers the process as a whole. Together with a highly experienced crew including Ginger Fournier, Sven Gayer and Timo Weinhold, an already existing show venue in Las Vegas had to be completely transformed in 2009. Design, partial rebuilding, system integration and content production all had to be finished in a mere six weeks. To make the situation even more challenging, dance rehearsals were scheduled to take place in the middle of this creative yet chaotic situation. The venue itself was located inside the Rio Casino in Las Vegas and had previ- ously been used by the artist Prince as a showroom for his exclusive concerts. The former inhabitant’s legacy consisted of violet coloured walls and many metres worth of rear-projection boxes situated alongside the completely round shaped main room. A wholly new and all-encompassing design concept was needed, that had to take the reintegration of existing equipment into account as well. Luckily, Alex Doss had a great range of equipment ready for action at this point, which had become avail- able after a recently finished production: 50 beaMovers courtesy of Publitec, two Sanyo XF47, 104 LED panels, Versa TUBES, Atomic Strobes, fog machines and eight coolux Pandoras Box Server PRO. His design had to fulfil two main tasks: first, he wanted the interior space to be- come one holistic light sculpture. Second, he needed it to become possible for the club’s visual appearance to change drastically at the flick of a button. The gap spaces in between the long line of rear projection boxes were visually closed using LEDs and Versa TUBE fragments that allowed for an attractive yet intentionally sketchy connection of the video content. beaMovers are among Alex Doss favourite ‘toys’, which he skilfully combined with


kinetic objects like retractable screens and projection screens on movable frames to create his drastic re-imagination of the club space. No matter how challenging the programming, Alex was able to rely on the versatility of the coolux Pandoras Box product range: “I really don’t know where to start. I love everything about the sys- tem, the product itself, the communication between users and the way the creative geniuses at coolux continue to come up with innovative solutions that make being a designer a real joy.” Timelines containing complex content structures as well as matrix settings, LED and Versa TUBE control were programmed to create seamless fading between all different kinds of content. During shows and club nights, the VJ’s turntables and any kind of additional equip- ment could be fed into the setup from different positions, using pre-programmed router settings to create mural like panoramic effects. In terms of sound it is interesting to note, that the setup was prepared for integrat- ing Sonic Emotion’s 3D sound system, which can be easily connected to Pandoras Box and allows the creation of unforgettable spatial sound installations. Alex Doss’ video design let the projection boxes represent the overall theme, with walls, floor, ceiling and furniture becoming living extensions of said theme. The beaMover was able to move dynamic beam structures in haze or allow three dimen- sional objects appear. Projection screens covering LED panels served as an accentuation of the projected image with intensive light details that were synchronised and played out via layering and the LED controller. Alex Doss’ current projects are focussed on the creation of virtual landscapes and sets that incorporate light-sculpting, projection design and interactive platforms. He uses Sonic Emotion’s Wave Processor Technology in combination with the coolux Widget Designer PRO for building interactive audio / visual interfaces that can be controlled by performers and artists themselves. The result: an audience sub- merged in dynamic surroundings.


www.oneoverchaos.com / www.coolux.de www.mondodr.com


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