GLP JDC Burst 1 powers the visual language of Dani Fernández’s La Insurrección tour
Isaac Bargiela, creative director, lighting designer and scenographer for the production, used GLP JDC Burst 1 fixtures as the centrepiece of a unified visual language spanning lighting, video and scenography across one of Spain’s most ambitious current touring productions.
Spanish singer-songwriter Dani Fernández has built one of the country’s strongest solo success stories of recent years. After first coming to prominence as a member of Auryn, he established himself as a solo artist with a string of charting releases, including Entre las dudas y el azar and La Jauría, both of which reached number one in Spain.
That momentum finds live expression through La Insurrección, a large-scale touring 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 world in which lighting, video and scenography are conceived as a coherent whole.
At the centre of that vision is Isaac Bargiela, whose role on the production extends well beyond lighting. Alongside the lighting design, Bargiela is also responsible for the show’s creative direction, visual design and scenography. This is the breadth of authorship that underpins the production’s visual coherence. Within that 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. Each element, including the progression of light, the use of colour, the relationship between beams, screens and scenic volumes, etc., has been developed as part of a larger narrative arc.
“Every scene is built with a clear intention,” says Bargiela. 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.
That ambition to create a complete visual environment shaped the entire production process. Rather than treating lighting, video and set as parallel departments, Bargiela developed them as interdependent elements, each one 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 says. “That idea runs right through this design, while 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 screen to create distinct visual layers.”
A key fixture in realising that vision was GLP’s JDC Burst 1. Bargiela came to the unit following a recommendation from Pedro ‘Peke’ Campos at Fluge Audiovisuales, while looking for a powerful, pixel-controllable LED strobe that could do far more than simply deliver punch.
“I knew I needed a range of pixel-controllable LED strobes with plenty of power. And as soon as Pedro told me to have a look at them, it was love at first sight. It was like a paintbrush to a painter,” says Bargiela. “In this design, the JDC Bursts are primarily responsible for creating volume, together with the set design and the screens in the background, as well as colour washes and, above all else, rapid effects inside the cues. They give me the versatility to play with effects at high resolution and with incredible colour quality in the mixes.”
What sets the JDC Burst 1 apart in this design is not just its sheer output, but the level of control it offers. For Bargiela, the fixture’s strength lies as much in its ability to shape rhythm, phrasing and musicality as it does in the punch it brings to the stage.
“They are what I call my ‘musicality devices,’” Bargiela says. “With their incredibly precise dimming and great maximum output, they are my allies when it comes to giving rhythm to the programming and that touch of musicality that I love to use in my projects.”
That combination of finesse and force makes the fixture particularly effective in a show built on rapid shifts in mood and scale. One moment, the JDC Burst 1 delivers sheer intensity. The next, it resolves into finely calibrated cue detail, all while remaining tightly aligned with the musical and emotional dynamics of the performance.
For Bargiela, one aspect stood out above all others – output. “The power, the versatility when creating effects and the resolution are strengths of the JDC Burst. But, to me, I love the power the most,” he says. “When I crank the JDC line up to full power, I literally can’t see the stage. The output these units pack is absolutely staggering. Just to give an idea, I only need eight to blind the audience in any venue. Whereas, with other units, I’d need at least ten.”
Production Credits
Artist – Dani Fernández
Creative Direction/Lighting Design/Visual Design/Scenography – Isaac Bargiela
Production and Promotion – Mapache Music
Technical Production and Rental – Fluge Audiovisuales
