www.entertainmentengineeringmagazine.com: Aero Motion Australia designs and produces custom rigging systems for aerial performance across stage, theatre, circus, and screen. With deep roots in aviation and an unrelenting pursuit of visual wonder and technical mastery, the company continues to redefine what’s possible in the air—creating elegant, mechanical solutions for complex motion.
It’s exciting to see more equipment being developed specifically for personal flying effects. This practice is common in our industry, but the quality and safety often vary depending on the equipment being used. I’m hopeful that purpose-built rigging systems like this will help raise safety standards across the field. The design is impressive in how effectively it produces the desired quality of movement. Particularly with its ability to create quick, abrupt changes in direction, which are rarely achievable with traditional human-operated flying systems.The only drawback is that it relies on human counterweight operation, which limits who can safely operate the system and may prevent larger individuals from being flown. Because the system’s performance depends heavily on operator and user feedback, its effectiveness will vary depending on who is running it. Additionally, with so many ratios and moving parts involved, frequent inspections will be essential to ensure the system continues to operate as intended.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a super cool setup! I have to admit, it’s pretty difficult to imagine all the parts in my head, at least for me. Above all, I just can’t believe that it’s all manually operated and human powered! Just because of that, I bet that it’s so much easier to choreograph the show. Even though a human is less reliable than a winch (usually), we can be way more flexible and we don’t need to be programmed. On that same note, though, I’m sure the training had to be extremely thorough for safety reasons on a rig as big as this one. I wish that they had put a picture of the overhead rigging in the article, but they probably can’t for legal reasons. I’ve never been able to work with or even see a performer flying setup, but I really want to. I’ve heard stories from coworkers who have installed them before, and they just sound so awesome.
ReplyDeleteMotion through a performance space is one of the biggest tools that a performer can use to tell their story. Being able to float and glide through the air as if you were a marionette is something of a dream that I would bet a lot of people have. The incredible leaps and bounds through the air is reminiscent of a super hero gliding effortlessly through the air. The teaser video of the performers contrasts this gliding with glitching and rewinding like a disc on a turntable. While the video example is from 2007, I imagine that the new article is about a more recent adaptation or renewal of the performance as a jumping off point for this article or maybe the information was released due to the end of the performance. Either way it is exciting to see what they are able to do now as new technology comes into the space.
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