LightSoundJournal.com: The transformation seemed magical. For three nights this summer, Princess Gardens Park, a refined and stately 37-acre oasis of green in the middle of a downtown shopping district, took on the air of an EDM club as thousands of fans piled in to see stars like Kerri Chandler, Shanti Celeste, Mr. G, and DJ Boring, perform at the Fly Open Air Festival.
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The first thing I noted is how much this designer was able to use the beams of light in order to make the set for the festival. There was no appreciable scenery other than the beams of the lights themselves. What occurred to me when I realized this is that this show is very reliant on high-quality, high-quantity haze machines. It is not easy to get that even of haze in a large outdoor venue such as this. I wonder what machines and how much haze fluid they are using for this project.
I also noted that this project used Chamsys and was overall very positive on how well that worked for them. Normally I would expect a company like this to run the show on MA2 or MA3, but this show did not. It seems that it is possible to do a large-scale show like this on many different control systems, but it will come down to what the operator is most comfortable with and is the most cost-effective when actually deciding what console to use for a specific show.
Ok wow that picture is so very cool! EDM is honestly a very crazy type of concert to go to, and I have never been to one, but I have always wanted to go. The pyrotechnics must have been really cool to work with. I have always wondered how to use pyrotechnics safely and how they are produced. Not only those, but things like a spring loaded container that releases something into the audience like confetti or glitter, I am also very curious as to how those work. I would love to work on larger concerts one day just like many of the staff at CMU. I think being able to work on those shows would be a very good way to diversify my resume and just learn some other practical uses of the skills we learn for theater. The lights used for these shows were also very straight and fanned out and I wonder how small the shutter had to be in order to achieve that flat beam.
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