After 10-year hiatus the Jonas Brothers have embarked on a new world tour: 74 dates in North America and 16 in Europe, in support of their fifth studio album. Accompanying the Happiness Begins tour are some 200 LED profile fixtures Ayrton Khamsin.
Burbank’s silentHOUSE is providing the tour production and lighting design for the show, which features a curved LED videowall at the back of the stage, an LED floor and a talent walkway to VIP seating. The Jonas Brothers will wrap the tour in Paris next February. They have sold some 17 million albums worldwide.
“Show’s lighting design works and video production work toether,” says Baz Halpin (silentHOUSE CEO and producer). “The truss configurations frame the main statement of the LED screens, and there are no trusses downstage of the LED floor. We decided to light all the performers from the side. So that the LED stage sitting at center stage dominates the visuals with no elements taking away from the show.”
The Khamsin profiles are positioned “in the pit and upstage/offstage of the set to give silhouette opportunities, frame the set and expand the whole vision beyond its physical structure,” says Alex Reardon (lighting designer and silentHOUSE partner) “The majority of the Khamsin fixtures are mounted on the ground and utilised throughout the show, and the turnout has been wonderful.”
The tour marks the first time that Reardon has used Ayrton Khamsin, and he’s been very satisfied with their performance. “I was seriously impressed with the results, he says. The fixture has a bright, uniform field, great colour and significant effects from the individual macro-control of the LED engine. I am looking forward to working with Khamsins again. I’m watching to see what Ayrton comes up with over the next few years as the progress in LED [lighting] has been so meteoric.”
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