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John Summit’s “Comfort in Chaos” show at Madison Square Garden taps Ayrton Rivale and Domino fixtures

Ayrton Rivale and Domino lighting fixtures and GrandMA3 full-size consoles played a key role in DJ John Summit’s sold-out, five-and-a-half hour show at New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Chicago-based LEC was the lighting vendor for the performance, the kickoff of Summit’s “Comfort in Chaos” tour. The show, which also was broadcast on YouTube, follows the release of Summit’s debut album.

Jason Baeri, who served as the show’s Lighting and Co-Production Designer with Creative Director James Klein of Aeon Point, has an almost ten-year history of using Ayrton fixtures and is believed to have been the first Ayrton MagicPanel user in the US. Manuel “Manny” Conde, the Associate Lighting Designer and Programmer, also has many years’ experience working with Ayrton products, with Diablos and Huracáns consistent performers at his gigs.

The overall look of Summit’s show was layered with a large array of looks presented throughout more than 100 songs in three acts. “The lighting rig had to be flexible enough to expand and contract over time to give different looks over the five-and-a-half hours of the show”, says Baeri. The 20-fixture Domino layer “was designed as an omnipresent guide light”, he furthers. “John performed on a floating platform, and Dominos were placed below his riser for an underglow and upstage for silhouette and aerial looks.”

Summit’s show marked the first time that Baeri used Ayrton Rivales. “They were the workhorse of the rig with 50 on the floor, 100 in the air and a few more scattered as key lights”, he says. Baeri and Conde jointly decided to use three active and one spare GrandMA3 full-size consoles running in MA3 software mode for lighting control. “They excel at the ability to deal with a large number of fixtures”, notes Baeri. “In addition to the Ayrtons, we had a couple of hundred pixel lines with hundreds of thousands of parameters, which were programmed on the system.” Conde has been using MA3 software exclusively for about two-and-a-half years.

Destin Klug was the additional Lighting Programmer for Summit’s show.

(Photos: Alive Coverage/Chris Lazzaro)

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