RENTAL FIRMS 'LED' BY PIXEON
PRG & ENTEC ADD COLOUR
STREAM TO SHOW SPECS
Pixeon Colour Stream, the LED colour strip marketed exclusively by Lighting Effects Distribution, has been specified for an increasing number of high profile tours and TV shows.
Lighting designer Al Gurdon has used a total of 50m of the 55mm diameter tube on the current series of Thames TV's The X Factor at Fountain Studios, and used a further 24 x 1m lengths for the European MTV Music Awards in Rome - all supplied by PRG Europe, which stocks Pixeon in its rental fleet. Said PRG account manager James Barnfather: "With the latest version of Pixeon you can create more effects and colour mixes than before."
Entec Sound & Light has incorporated 23 of its 24 x 3m lengths into Andrew Keightley's imaginative lighting design for the current Bjorn Again tour. The Pixeon chases around the outside of a house faŤade, which forms the framework of the stage set, with the designer praising Pixeon's colour saturation and chasing ability. Meanwhile, Entec have written some personality software, ensuring that the entire show - including the Pixeon - can be triggered from Keightley's Hog 2 desk. "As a result," said Entec director Noreen O'Riordan, "Pixeon is now becoming very tourable."
The latest mains-powered version of Pixeon - an LED tube, containing a dense array of RGB LEDs arranged in individual pixels - offers a more flexible controller, opening up its application into other production environments. However, its attraction to creative designers like Al Gurdon is that reads well to television and is extremely competitively priced. Each pixel in the Pixeon display is controlled separately to produce both a range of colours and dynamic movement along the length of the tube; placed end-to-end patterns flow seamlessly through the system.