Event Management Expands Kinesys Line

Milanese company Event Management has expanded its investment in Kinesys automation equipment to service the latest series of the popular TV show, Io Canto.
The fourth edition of Io Canto was recorded in Studio 20 of broadcaster Mediaset's Cologno Monzese complex in Milan and aired nationwide on Channel 5 HD.
The show is a singing talent show for young people aged 5 – 16.
The production and lighting design for this year's Io Canto was created by Francesco de Cave who worked closely with set designer, Marco Calzavara.
Marco Calzavara and de Cave decided to have six large columns of moving 8mm LED video screen at the back of the stage.
Each measured 8 metres high by three metres wide, weighed a sturdy 800kg and moved along a curved track based on an 11 metre diameter circle, mirroring the spherical design of the stage.
Four front truss pods each contained six Clay Paky alpha Beam 700 moving lights and clad on the audience side in Chromlech Elidy LED matrix panels, also supplied by Event management.
Calzavara contacted Event Management's Daniele Parazzoli to help engineer a solution, who in turn proposed two separate Kinesys systems, each with K2 control.
Event Management made their first investment in Kinesys at the end of 2012. When their Kinesys system was confirmed for Io Canto, they added to their existing stock.
For Io Canto, the six rear LED columns were moved by six Kinesys beam trolleys at their bases fitted to 40 metres of custom built curved track, which Event Management designed and had specially fabricated.
At the top, the columns were rigged to six trussing sections each fitted with a Kinesys LibraCELL, so all the positional and tracking data for the movement could be fed back to an iPad, that could be used anywhere in the studio to monitor the system and check it was always running safe.
The front truss pods were moved by eight half tonne Liftket motors with Kinesys Elevation 1+ drive units.
One of the two K2 control systems complete with full tracking backup moved the LED columns and the other took care of the front truss pods, operated by Frederico Galiberti and Teo Mancari respectively for the series.
De Cave – who is also a prolific show designer - first worked with Kinesys products on tour with Italian singer Tiziano Ferro in 2012 and was seriously impressed.
"Kinesys is highly accurate, safe and reliable," said Calzavara.
"I needed a system that could open, close and align the back video columns to within a 1mm tolerance and it's the best system I currently know of for achieving this."
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