Produced by Euforia Festivals, Tranceformations is one of Poland’s largest EDM Festivals. It takes place annually at the Centennial Hall, a UNESCO-listed building in the charming city of Wroclaw, capital of Lower Silesia. The historic venue, built in 1913 to a design by architect Max Berg, holds 10,000 people beneath its 42m high x 67m diameter dome.
This was the location for the sixth edition of Tranceformations which hosted a stellar line up of international Trance music artists including Aly & Fila, Brinary Finary, Jordan Suckley, Nilsix, Thrill Seekers, Solarstone, Genix, Marcus Schulz, A.D.D.A, Roger Shah and Simon Paterson.
Lighting designer, Marcin Chrzanowski of CM Light, Poland, used over 500 moving lights and 55 very high-powered lasers to bring to life a stunning light show, transforming the mid-air into a huge colourful work of art, full of symmetry, colour and movement, with the DJs and artists as its focal point.
The canvas on which he painted was provided by 3 MDG ATMe haze generators, controlled directly via DMX from the MA Lighting GrandMA3 lighting console, and a fourth ‘older but, as always, reliable’ MDG Atmosphere haze generator, working manually at about 25% – 30% throughout the show.
The deployment of the generators was a simple set up of a single ATMe generator in two corners of the stage, and a third ATMe placed centre stage, and used with a fan to avoid creating a wall of fog in front of the artists. The manually controlled Atmosphere meanwhile was located in the main entrance to the hall where the natural flow of air worked perfectly without the need of fans.
“The sheer cubic capacity of the room meant we had the generators working continuously for the first hours of event, with the following hours just a matter of maintaining them at a level to keep a consistent level of haze in the Hall,” explained Chrzanowski. “I had one of the largest number of lasers at any festival in Poland, and as you can see in the photos, the MDG haze copes perfectly with everything I could throw at it! There was never a danger of creating dense clouds in the air and it kept the images I created clear and transparent to both the human eye and to the cameras.”
Chrzanowski has favoured MDG haze generators for many years and continues to be an advocate of the quality of their haze and controllability of their generators: “I’ve been using MDG generators since they first came to Poland and I don’t see anything that can replace them. MDG ATMe haze generators are one of best options available on market, and can be put to all uses in television productions, musical or theatrical events. I find them quiet, easy to use, trouble-free and with a reliable design that works in all conditions – from indoors to open large spaces.”
The lighting and haze solutions for Tranceformations 2024 were provided by one of the largest companies in Poland, TSE Group, in co-operation with Flash. The lasers were supplied by Visual Sensation.
