Italian team promises an “edgy” firework

For Wednesday 18 June, the Italian team Luci di Notte has prepared a fireworks show ‘Fire Water Burn’ with an unusual soundtrack. Inspired by the song of the same name by the punk band Bloodhound Gang, they prepared a provocative spectacle for the audience. Designer Renzo Cargnelutti promises to show the well-known songs in a different light and explains how the pyromusical was created.

What led you to choose such an unusual setlist for your pyromusical?

When you choose music for a show you can use something everybody knows and everybody likes – like ABBA or the Beatles. This might be easy because everybody is in a good mood and singing and dancing and in the end everybody liked the show – but it is never special.

What can the audience expect from your show?

I chose this music because there is a unique synergy between the songs and the fireworks, at least I hope that it will be there in the evening. This is for sure the harder way but if it works then you can create something special. This is what you can expect from the show.

You named the show after the song Fire Water Burn. Why didn’t you use the song in your show?

The song Fire Water Burn is a symbol for this attitude, at least for me, but the song itself is not a fireworks song, so I didn’t use it in the show.

In your opinion, which song is the most edgy one from your setlist?

The edgiest song is for sure the Eisbär… it is an old German Neue Deutsche Welle song from the 80's. However, we’ll use a version performed by the French band Nouvelle Vague. They are singing the song with a French accent and giving it a very different mood without losing the old idea of it. When you see the white blinking fireworks, I hope you can feel the cold and maybe you see an ice bear on the horizon as well…

Designer Renzo Cargnelutti has been a part of the Ignis Brunensis fireworks festival for a long time: he has received an award for his excellent work with digital technologies in 2012 as well as a music award for his “spaghetti western” fireworks show “Once Upon a Time” in 2021, prepared in cooperation with Austrian Pyrovision and Czech Flash Barrandov SFX.

The audience can enjoy the Italian pyromusical on Wednesday, June 18 from 22:30 above Brno Lake.

Dominika Lišková
The author graduated from FSS MU in Brno,
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