Lighting design
Studio ’24: A Disco Choir Experience
Disco history in four-part harmony. Krank'd designed the lighting for QPAC Chamber Choir's Studio '24, directed by Timothy Sherlock in the Concert Hall.
Explore the production- When
- 13 August 2024
- Where
- Concert Hall, QPAC, South Brisbane
A wide auditorium view of the choir and purple lighting.
From Studio 54 to contemporary disco
Studio '24: A Disco Choir Experience traced disco's evolution from the 1970s through the dance music of later decades. QPAC Chamber Choir performed the programme on 13 August 2024, led by QPAC Choral Director Timothy Sherlock.
The repertoire included Donna Summer, the Bee Gees, Earth, Wind & Fire, Madonna, Prince, Kylie Minogue, Lady Gaga and Dua Lipa. Familiar dance-floor songs were reworked in four-part harmony, placing the sound and sight of a full choir inside a musical world usually associated with clubs and pop performance.
A choir concert with a disco visual language
Krank'd created the lighting design for the production. The design brought colour, movement and the reflected-light character of disco into QPAC's Concert Hall while keeping the ensemble visible as a group.
That balance distinguished the job from a conventional band show. A choir spreads the performance across many voices and faces, with the musical changes happening inside the ensemble as well as at the front of the stage. The lighting supported the programme's progression through the decades while holding that collective performance at its centre.
