Innovative and cutting edge French artist / music producer DJ Snake rocked the
Paris Zenith with an incendiary set and a spectacular new visual design by Romain
Pissenem of creative production company High Scream … utilizing a lighting rig of
nearly 200 Robe moving lights including 64 of the new Spiider LED wash beams, 80
x Spikies, 32 x Pointes and 11 x BMFL WashBeams.

Lighting was programmed and directed by UK based Rob Lister who has worked as
DJ Snake’s LD for the last year and has a long-standing working relationship with
Pissenem and High Scream from visiting Ushuaia Ibiza with DJs Axwell & Ingrosso
… for which Pissenem is also the production / show director.

“For this design we needed a video presence, but I really wanted the stage to have
a strong lighting base,’ Pissenem says “to use video in a more subtle and
understated way and for lighting to have a very powerful presence’.

Having used Robe products on numerous shows over the years – Pissenem jumped
at the chance to try out these latest technologies – and was delighted when rental
company S Group, lighting supplier for the Zenith gig, boosted their Robe stock with
additional Spikies for the event.

One of Pissenem’s inspirations for this show was wanting to bring a super-powerful
lightsource onstage … and you can’t get anything more astronomically awesome …
than the sun!

This spawned the 6 metre diameter circular truss made up of four concentric rings
populated with the 64 Spiiders! It was rigged on an automation system enabling it
to fly in and out and, tilt and pitch above the elliptical shaped DJ booth.

The 80 x Spikies were arranged in two large matrix grids in between six columns of
12 mm LED screen on both left and right of the stage. These columns were
arranged in a gentle arc and they flanked an elegantly curved LED surface upstage
centre.

The 32 x Pointes were scattered around the rig and used for all the major beam
technology and effects looks for which they are so well known and loved.

DJ Snake’s set embraces a wide range of styles and genres from trap to electro, hip
hop to pop and so there is plenty of opportunity for imaginative lighting and visuals.
The first half is full-on fast-and-furious with his more commercial hits coming at the
end … so the pace of the show shifts radically over the 90 minutes.

Ahead of the gig, Pissenem, Lister and the High Scream production team which
included technical manager Bertrand de Saint Pern, who did a great job of keeping
everything efficient and flowing on the day, were able to schedule some rare
rehearsal time with the artist during two days of full production rehearsals in
Briare, south of Paris.

DJ Snake will continue touring worldwide through 2017.