The Robe Lighting Show offers an innovative light video art concept

This show of 10 minutes long offers three musical themes and the action takes place on an empty and naked stage, with a large piece of driftwood. Para la puesta en escena se han utilizado 350 moving lights.

Japanese lighting designer Mitsumasa Hayashi created 'The Robe Lighting Show', a work of light art developed in the Urayasu Mai studio of the Nihon Stage. For its execution more than 350 moving lights Steal, that were supplied by the rental companies, M-Tech Style and Mula Corporation. The work was commissioned by Masaharu Sakamoto, which runs LTG, Robe's Japanese distributor.

With live performances halted around the world due to the pandemic, Sakamoto was interested in producing a video art concept that could be enjoyed and appreciated by lighting enthusiasts and knew that Hayashi was the right person to create a brilliant work., moving and impactful.

The Light Show, of 10 minutes long, it has three musical themes and the action takes place on an empty and naked stage, apart from a large and symbolic piece of drifting wood, placed so that Hayashi could imagine a world of light and energy around him inspired by music.

Their goal was also to keep the space open and the lighting fluid and kinetic., allowing each viewer to interpret independently and enjoy their own individual journey while watching, feeling the emotion and spirit of the combined visual and sound experience.

One hundred and twenty-six BMFL WashBeam EV, 168 MegaPoints, 12 Esprites and 56 Tetra2 were specifically chosen to create the work..

One hundred and twenty of the WashBeam BMFs were arranged on a back wall, six rows deep, each with 20 Devices, the highest to 11 meters from the stage and the lowest at two meters. These trusses were moved up and down using an automated system..

Another four BMFL WashBeams were installed in each corner of the floor performance space., with a fifth in the center of the scenario, on the ground. These luminaires were chosen for their power and functionality.

The MegaPoints were placed in two long trusses on the left and right, each with 24, with a third set of 24 MegaPoints at the bottom of the rear wall of the BMFL EV.

These same physical positions for others 72 MegaPoints were reflected in the ground, with others 24 devices mounted on a circular truss of 12 meters above the stage.

Above the center point of the stage was a rotating truss Parasol KLR of 3 diameters loaded with 12 Esprites, and directly above the trunk of the driftwood tree, pointing to the epicenter of geometric design, there was another individual BMFL WashBeam.

Tetra2 bars were installed along the back wall, in the lower section of the side beams and on the ground.

All these devices complemented each other harmoniously as Hayashi did his magic by imagining the show.. A fusion of visual ideas, a great program and variety of multipurpose devices gave it all the scope and dynamics necessary to produce this show, that goes through a whole range of emotions, starting with reflection and delicacy and reaching an intense and expressive crescendo, that takes viewers on an exciting journey.

The Robe Lighting Show was programmed on a console grandMA2 by Masaki Morii of Mula Corporation and viewed by Michiko Yagi of Hayashi's office.

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