| TribLIVE | Pittsburgh: During the day, artist/musician/inventor Eric Singer builds musical robots. At night, he likes to watch stuff burn.
No, he's not an arsonist.
Singer, of Squirrel Hill, is an artist working with the still-obscure, but undeniably spectacular medium of fire. This Saturday, he has assembled Pittsburgh's first ever festival of "fire arts" -- Pyrotopia.
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I am so glad this was posted, because I wouldn't have heard about it otherwise, and now I'm really exciting about going. And I just found out it's free! If anyone else is interested, http://pyrotopia.net/ gives you details. I'm a little confused that this is happening in Pittsburgh, because Pittsburgh has never seemed like "a place where things happen" to me. I would happily be proved wrong, though. Many props to the inventive Eric Singer.
Apparently no one else cares about this, but I'm going to post a follow up comment anyway. Pyrotopia was awesome. There was a variety of fire art, a really funny announcer, and a great overall atmosphere. The thing that impressed me the most was a musical-fire setup some genius designed. There was a square of four big flames on 7 foot...sticks...forgive me, I don't know pyro terms, and the 'player' stood inside the square, and hit pads that resembled the pads on an electric drumset. Each pad corresponded to a flame, and when pressed, the flame would go BOOM and become 8ft tall for a second and make a sweet sound. So the player pounds out a pattern...and then the machine repeated the pattern by itself, kind of like the programmable water fountain at phipps. I thought this was a really creative art piece that mixed fire with electrical looping equipment (again, don't know terms) and seemed pretty musical as well.
Hi Rachael, I'm one of the organizers of Pyrotopia and we DEFINITELY care about your opinion! I'm really glad you had a good time at the show. The piece you're talking about is called "Flaming Simon" - you can see video of it here: https://vimeo.com/27003327
We're posting more videos and photos on our Facebook page - please check it out: http://www.facebook.com/pyrotopia
And feel free to send us any other comments or suggestions you have for making next year's Pyrotopia even better!
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