LightSoundJournal.com: In 2023, Opera Australia (OA) brought Wagner’s groundbreaking production of the ‘Ring Cycle’ to life at Brisbane’s Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC). Renowned as the pinnacle of opera, Wagner’s ‘Ring Cycle’ spans 15 epic hours performed over four nights, featuring a collective of 83 musicians and 102 voices performing some of the most transformative music ever written.
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This seems like a really cool design of the Ring Cycle using a neat new technology. While I had heard of BlackTrax by what it does, I had not necessarily heard the company name itself before. The idea of a software that can track and communicate the position and actions of actors onstage is really interesting. Using the software to be able to actively and organically (to a point) influence media and video wall content is incredibly cool and an intersection of the cutting edge application of a number of technologies in our industry. While in terms of moving light tracking I don’t think that these automated spots are a replacement for human spot ops, I can see the purpose that they can serve at moments in production - both types are incredibly important. In the end, the production photos from this show are beautiful and they seem to have really effectively been able to use this technology to their advantage in order to better sculpt the world they had created.
This seems like a really cool design of the Ring Cycle using a neat new technology. While I had heard of BlackTrax by what it does, I had not necessarily heard the company name itself before. The idea of a software that can track and communicate the position and actions of actors onstage is really interesting. Using the software to be able to actively and organically (to a point) influence media and video wall content is incredibly cool and an intersection of the cutting edge application of a number of technologies in our industry. While in terms of moving light tracking I don’t think that these automated spots are a replacement for human spot ops, I can see the purpose that they can serve at moments in production - both types are incredibly important. In the end, the production photos from this show are beautiful and they seem to have really effectively been able to use this technology to their advantage in order to better sculpt the world they had created.
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