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Lighting in Booom! is 90% LED and was supplied and installed by The Shop Ibiza. Production Manager for the Booom! project, Dave Singleton told mondo*dr: “Ibiza is a strange place for lighting, some DJs like to be completely in the dark, some want to be lit up more than Harrods at Christmas and others place the control in your hands and let you do what you believe to be best. The equipment and design at Booom! needed to be fl exible enough to cope with any sit- uation that might arise on the night, for example, a dancer appearing on the edge of the VIP platform needing light. Therefore the fi xture positions and moving lights were carefully considered to gain the most from the rig.”
The lighting in Booom! is designed to work for the various zones in the club. On the main dancefl oor there are eight Martin Professional MAC 350 Entour moving heads and 20 Martin Professional MAC 101 moving head washlights, as well as Martin Professional Atomic 3000 DMX strobes and stage blinders from Showtec. The DJ booth encorporates three Martin Professional MAC Aura moving heads, four Martin Professional MAC 101 moving heads; along with Show- tec blinders and an ETC Source Four JR lighting fi xture for key light on the DJ. The rest of the club is split into three VIP levels, a main bar area and dancefl oor bar, which are all lit with Martin Professional MAC Aura moving heads. “Guiseppe always had a specifi c vision of how the club should look,” continued Dave. “So with this in mind and working with the different promoters, each night follows a similar theme yet is made unique by incorporating all the different requirements.” Video was a key element of the design at Booom! and while visual elements have always helped to create a bigger and better atmo- sphere for clubbers around the world, according to Dave, now that LED screens are becoming more readily available, they are becoming more popular with promoters as a cost effective option to make a big impact.
The design for video at Booom!, which is made up of custom content and was created by Visual Edge Media, works in three ways. The fi rst is the use of 200 Element Labs Stealth panels - provided by XL
Video - dotted around the club. The six main pillars on the dancefl oor are cladded on all four sides with a one by four panel drop, while the rest are arrayed in custom built square frames fl own from the roof. “This allows a highly creative option for the club’s LD to supplement the lighting in the club,” said Dave. The second part of the design is a three-metre by two-metre LED screen made up of Martin Profes- sional EC-10 panels - supplied by VER - positioned above the dance- fl oor bar. This allows promoters to display content and visuals specifi c to their night. The fi nal part of the design consists of three Barco SLM R12+ Performer projectors - again supplied by VER - which are used for creative and branding purposes both inside and outside the club depending on the night. An Avolites Ai-T4 media server running V7 software, driven by a Chamsys MagicQ MQ60 console via ArtNet, controls the whole system. “I specifi cally asked Steve Warren from Avolites Media to get involved as I’d worked with him and the Ai Media Server before,” said Dave. “I knew it was the only piece of kit that could provide us with the fl exibility and sheer power to meet our demanding visual needs.” All special effects at Booom! have been supplied by Back 2 Back Events and consist of CO² jets, CO² guns, Power Shots and Stadium Shots from Magic FX - these are controlled by Magic FX Effect’iva- tors. ER Productions in London supplied four
ER.COM4 lasers and four ER Lase Array-Red bars, which are controlled by Pangolin software and an Akai APC40 midi controller. Dave also highlighted the fact that big clubs don’t open that often in Ibiza. The concept for Booom! is a nightclub aimed at a customer base that enjoys music and appreciates mind-blowing visuals and lighting. “The hype that has been surrounding Booom! is huge,” he said. “This means the expectation to deliver a technically impressive club has also been huge and naturally there have been a number of challenges along the way. The building itself formally played host to club Angels, Penelopes and Heaven before being radically trans- formed into Booom! and upon further investigation by the structural engineers, just one week before it was due to open, it was discov- ered that all the points required for rigging inside the club were not
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