Isaac Bargiela, the production’s creative director, lighting designer and scenographer, used GLP JDC Burst 1 fixtures as the centrepiece of a unified visual language integrating lighting, video and scenography across one of Spain’s most ambitious touring productions today.
Spanish singer-songwriter Dani Fernández has built one of the country’s most successful solo careers in recent years. After first rising to prominence as a member of Auryn, he established himself as a solo artist with a string of chart-topping releases, including Entre las dudas y el azar and La Jauría, both of which reached number one in Spain.
That momentum comes to life on stage through La Insurrección, a large-scale production designed to make an impact on every level. Produced and promoted by Mapache Music, with technical production and rental supplied by Fluge Audiovisuales, the show brings together a striking visual universe in which lighting, video and scenography are conceived as a coherent whole.
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At the centre of this vision is Isaac Bargiela, whose role in the production extends far beyond lighting design. In addition to designing the lighting, Bargiela is responsible for the show’s creative direction, visual design and scenography. This breadth of authorship forms the foundation of the production’s visual coherence. Within this framework, GLP’s JDC Burst 1 emerges as one of the defining tools of the design.
For Bargiela, lighting is not a separate layer applied to the show, but an essential part of its storytelling language. Every element — including the evolution of light, the use of colour and the relationship between beams, screens and scenic volumes — has been developed as part of a broader narrative arc.
Every scene is built with a clear intention. At times, the lighting places the audience in a Matrix-like parallel reality, with gobos cutting through the air like laser beams. At other times, it evokes the feeling of being in the middle of a desert war zone. And in other moments, the lighting effects are mirrored in the screen content, reinforcing the symbiosis between light and video, says Bargiela.
This ambition to create a complete visual environment shaped the production process. Rather than treating lighting, video and scenography as parallel departments, Bargiela developed them as interdependent elements, each reinforcing the spatial depth, emotional tone and overall dramatic composition of the show.
“I believe light has the power to place the audience inside a very specific scene”, he explains. “That idea runs throughout this design, always keeping in mind the need to light the stage, keep the artist visible, create wow moments and, above all, bring out the volumes of both the set and the screens to create distinct visual layers”.
A key tool in bringing this vision to life was the GLP JDC Burst 1. Bargiela discovered the fixture through a recommendation from Pedro ‘Peke’ Campos of Fluge Audiovisuales while searching for a powerful, pixel-controllable LED strobe capable of delivering far more than sheer intensity.
I knew I needed a range of powerful pixel-controllable LED strobes. As soon as Pedro told me to take a look at them, it was love at first sight. It was like giving a painter a paintbrush. In this design, the JDC Burst fixtures are primarily responsible for creating volume alongside the scenography and the background screens, as well as providing colour washes and, above all, rapid effects within the cues. They give me the versatility to work with high-resolution effects and incredible colour quality in the mixes, says Bargiela.
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What sets the JDC Burst 1 apart within this design is not only its output, but also the level of control it provides. For Bargiela, the fixture’s strength lies as much in its ability to shape rhythm, musical phrasing and the overall musicality of the show as in the energy it brings to the stage.
“They are what I call my ‘musicality devices’”, says Bargiela. “With their incredibly precise dimming and enormous maximum output, they are my greatest allies when it comes to giving rhythm to the programming and adding that touch of musicality that I love to bring to my projects”.
This combination of finesse and power makes the fixture highly effective in a show built around rapid shifts in atmosphere and scale. One moment, the JDC Burst 1 delivers overwhelming intensity; the next, it becomes a finely calibrated detail element within a cue, always remaining aligned with the musical and emotional dynamics of the performance.
For Bargiela, one characteristic stood above all others: power.
Power, versatility in creating effects and resolution are all strengths of the JDC Burst. But what I love most is its power. When I push the JDC line to full output, I literally can’t see the stage. The light output these fixtures deliver is incredible. To give you an idea, I only need eight of them to blind the audience in any venue. With other fixtures, I would need at least ten, he says.
Photo Credits: © Gloria Nieto
