ABSTRACT

Concert Lighting is a comprehensive book on lighting design for concerts. Placing special emphasis on rock-and-roll concert lighting equipment and techniques, the book takes its reader on tour, covering every aspect of that experience for the touring professional lighting technician and designer. It also provides several chapters to cross-media use of concert lighting techniques. Discussions of applications in film, video, the theatre, and the corporate world demonstrate the ways in which today's lighting designers cross over into other design areas.

Covering computer-aided drafting, moving lights, hi-bred consoles, concert techniques in television production, and featuring designs by some of the top concert designers in the industry, Concert Lighting is designed to assist students and professionals in understanding the unique fixtures, structures, special effects and design elements used in concert lighting today.

part |1 pages

SECTION I BACKGROUND AND ORGANIZATION

chapter 2|11 pages

Tour Personnel and Unions

chapter 3|11 pages

Business

chapter 4|7 pages

PreProduction

chapter 5|12 pages

The Design Stage

chapter 6|9 pages

Cueing the Music

chapter 7|8 pages

Road Life

chapter 8|10 pages

Working Outside the United States

part |1 pages

SECTION II EQUIPMENT DESIGNED TO TRAVEL

chapter 11|12 pages

Lighting Consoles

chapter 12|8 pages

Portable Dimming and Distribution Systems

chapter 13|12 pages

Lighting Trusses

chapter 14|13 pages

Lifts, Hoists, and Roofs

chapter 15|14 pages

Moving Luminaires

chapter 16|11 pages

LED Units

chapter 18|22 pages

Conventional Lighting and Accessories

chapter 19|5 pages

Smoke and Pyrotechnic Effects

chapter 21|11 pages

The Designer’s Workbox

part |1 pages

SECTION III DESIGNING WITH TOURING EQUIPMENT

chapter 23|36 pages

Master Designers

chapter 24|9 pages

Designers Perspective; Art vs. Business

chapter 25|11 pages

Artist’s Perspective

part |1 pages

SECTION IV THE AFTER-WORD

chapter 27|2 pages

Postscript: Looking Back