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DEEP WEB – kinetic laser show

This is an interesting “kinetic audiovisual installation”, designed by artist Christopher Bauder and composer and musician Robert Henke. There are 175 spheres suspended on moving winches, and 12 RGB lasers placed around the “canvas” of the spheres, and it appears that either the timing is very well controlled to keep the lasers on the spheres, or they’re feeing back Z-positional data to the software that’s pointing the lasers. Regardless of how the technology setup is, well, set up, the pictures and especially the video speak for themselves; this is a beautiful work of art: Deep Web from Robert Henke on Vimeo.

Spectacle or art: backline techs weigh in

A few years ago when I started working with one of the country music artists that I design lights for now, we had a backline and patch tech from a very large, very well-known sound company1 who, to put it mildly, had opinions on what concerts should and should not be. According to this individual, concerts are places for nothing but big sound systems, big guitars, and big hair. For him, moving lights, strobes, cryo, lasers – these are all superfluous and should be shunned. As near as I can articulate of what I think his position was, big rock shows should be lit by a PAR rig and a few followspots. Anything more is just spectacle, fluff, ostentatious flash… Read More »Spectacle or art: backline techs weigh in