| Smilin’ James Sound and Lighting provides high quality “stage illumination” bundled into our sound packages at tremendous savings over hiring a separate lighting company. Stage illumination meaning there is no dramatic lighting “show”, but rather high output, high quality LED lighting (see below).
We also subcontract full lighting shows with movers and hazers and a dedicated lighting engineer, and have relationships with some rvery affordable and reliable lighting companies that provide these services.
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LED’s Aren’t Hot, but they can be Warm!
LED lighting is a fantastic technological step, allowing the operator to mix colors with a single fixture, producing less heat and drawing less power, using bulbs that last for years. But many cheap LED lights make performers look ghostly or neon. My primary lighting array is eight Chauvet Slimpar-Pro RGBA’s. The “A” in RGBA stands for amber, and mixing amber with the red green and blue allows me to create warm colors that not only illuminate but complement the skin tones and costumes of the performers. |
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| One Stage – Three Moods!
As I mentioned, one of the great things about LED’s is that eight lights means eight color-mixed sources. This is three shots of the Owl Stage at the Gaia Festival in 2012, notice how the colors affect the moon and background color of the backdrop.Matching the lights to the mood of the performer and the song are the setting in which the performer presents their art. Lights can create a larger than life presence, or a gentle or mysterious mood.I do not present what Smilin’ James Sound provides in-house as a lighting “show”, but it is much more than simply pointing colored lights at a stage and walking away. |
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Delhi to Dublin at Mystic Garden Gathering |
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Dead Winter Carpenters at Ridgestock |
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