The University of Sydney’s Conservatorium of Music has made its first ever purchase of intelligent lighting in the form of four Claypaky Alpha Profile 800 ST, the most modern moving beam shaper in existence today for use in the most demanding lighting sectors.
Claypaky has used highly sophisticated micromechanics to obtain a compact, light, silent unit with an extremely bright light and a zoom capable of producing an extraordinarily sharp, perfectly uniform beam.
“We needed fixtures with shapers that could do quite a wide zoom range and also gobo patterns,” explained Jarrad Salmon, AV & Lighting Coordinator at Sydney Conservatorium of Music. “The space where the fixtures were to go has a very fast turnaround of events and there’s no time to rig and re-rig, so it had to be a flexible fixture. We wanted a wide range of colours and a zoom so we could hit anywhere onstage.”
The zoom on the Claypaky Alpha Profile 800 ST starts from the extremely narrow angle of 7.6° and reaches up to 55°.
Jarrad tried a few different fixtures out before settling on the Claypaky Alpha Profile 800 ST, saying it was certainly the pick of the bunch.
“They’ve performed very well,” he added. “The photo shows the Con Opera production of Cavalli’s La Calisto for which we have a couple of custom made gobos created. The lighting designer and crew were very happy with the Claypaky Alpha Profile 800 STs.”
Lighting designers will find all the tools they need to enhance their creativity in the Alpha Profile 800 ST.
Photo: Patrick Boland, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
