Every year, farmers, milk lovers and music fans flock to Ufa, the dairy capital of Russia to celebrate the Milk Music Festival.
Festival-goers learn about the dairy industry, interact with farm animals, take a spin on amusement park rides, and enjoy locally-sourced dairy products. One of the biggest draws to the festival is an open-air stage featuring folk singing, dancing and musical groups. This year, the lighting for the performances was controlled by an ETC Cobalt 20 desk.
The Cobalt console was supplied by Kilowatt Rentals and Staging, who thought the desk’s exceptional busking effectiveness would be perfect for the festival. It controlled a rig full of moving lights, LED luminaires, audience blinders and strobe lights.
It was the first time that lighting designer Yan Prokofyev used a Cobalt desk. ETC Console trainer Vladimir Kraynov gave him a short lesson on Cobalt’s features, including creating palettes, presets, effects and Prokofyev was ready to light. In no time, they were focusing and pre-programming parts of the festival’s lighting and during the performances, Prokofyev controlled the strobes, blinders and other effects on the fly. Cobalt’s Content effects were a powerful tool for busking, and the channel layouts with intensity and RGB colour indication, along with Cobalt’s intuitive syntax and Russian language interface, made for speedy operation.
“The Cobalt hardware and control surfaces are truly innovative and convenient,’ says Prokofyev.
