Under the motto ‘Power of the Tribe’, the concept of this year's Defqon.1 festival was designed entirely around coming together and celebrating past editions. For this reason, the main stage, also known as the RED stage, was realized with a special concept that took design elements from past festival concepts and integrated them into a new design to match the character of this year's anniversary show. The dutch lighting design and show entertainment professionals from Happy Technology around major lighting designer Robbert Vernooy were also responsible for the show design of the RED stage, along with more than 10 other stages, and presented a closing ceremony that was second to none. With over 70,000 daily visitors from 52 countries, it is a festival of superlatives, and the visually stunning shows do it justice just perfectly.
The shows of all stages around the six different areas are timecode-based and were created in advance using Syncronorm’s Depence multimedia show design and visualization software. The software thereby was a huge advantage in presenting the show designs to the respective clients well beforehand, which made the rehearsing time much shorter than usual. While pre-programming for about a month’s time before the event, programming at the location was basically done in about three hours, including programming lasers, SFX and pyro as well within the Depence file. That also includes working with video content as well in Depence in regards of the other stages at the festival.
Credits:
Jonas Schmidt: Creative Director Q-dance
Tamiel van Draanen en Dennis van Harten: Set Design Q-dance
Robbert-Jan Vernooij: Lighting Designer / programmer RED
Thijs Brouwers: Lighting Programmer Blue
Fabian Fisniku Lighting programmer Black
Pascal Parent Lighting Programmer UV
Micky Dordtrechter: Lighting Programmer Theatre
Carly Eijlander: lighting programmer Holland Casino
Keylight programmer Red : Joost Wijgers Light-H-Art
Niels Kieboom: Depence Master
Jari van Leerdam: Technical Producer Backbone international bv
Teun Schilders & Joost van Straten: Technical producer Q-dance
Jenno Roelofs: Technical Producer Backbone international bv
Stan van Winden: CAD Master
Lennart Lindhout: Project manager Lighting and Rigging Production people
Kevin van Setten: System Tech lighting Production People
Jeroen Winnubst: Laser Designer
Robin van der Linde: Creative Producer Q-dance
Joshua Dutrieux: Audio Composer Aepic platform
Lucas Gerritzen: Pyro Designer Pyro 4
