Strand Newsletter Dec 03
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1. Our cover story The LDI 2003 in Orlando Ga vin S Santa s Arena Ope Carmen in a football stadium D Dimmingfin the Canadian Rockies A new conference centre opens in Casablanca thy Fi aj ovates their Leisure Centrein af u K AE Stage Electrics supplies the University of 12 Manchester with a new lighting system Rob Halliday writes about the new Designer 13 Key Drives Console Tips All about ATC pages 14 Televisa in Mexico opens a new studio 16 A Concert Hall for Los Angeles the new Walt Disney Hall On October 23 a new Concert Hall opened in Los Angeles and immediately joined the ranks of leading concert halls around the world The building has been critically ac claimed for both its stunning visual presentation and bril liant acoustic performance In this story on the hall we are pleased to give you the theatre consultants views on de signing the building and some details of the system design The Theatre Consultants Design by Molly Pilbrow Theatre Projects Consultants When Frank Gehry began to design the new home for the Los Angeles Philharmonic one of the first firms he selected to be on his team was Theatre Projects Consultants TPC of South Norwalk Connecticut and London England TPC bridged the gap between the mysteries of the stage and the realities of the construction industry in its design of the hall s elaborate flexible stage light2. 2 11 12 13 3 gt 10 14 gt 99 Attribute Control Pages 1 99 These are the real attribute control pages Each entry is a combination of functions listed in the or der what the intensity wheel controls what left right movement of the trackball controls what up down movement of the trackball controls what the top rotary encoder controls what the second rotary controls what the third rotary controls what the bottom rotary controls So for example the entry 53 C M Y 1 3 4 2 11 12 13 would give control of intensity on the wheel pan and tilt on the trackball then colour cyan magenta and yellow on the four rotaries on a 300 series console the four attributes would highlighted on the channel control screen then you d select each in turn using the buttons on the track ball mouse Some of the standard pages have names such as VLP but the names are purely descriptive these are pages that have been created to be useful for these lights rather than pages that will only work with these lights The standard combination of pages can slow you down in two ways When you select a light the console attempts to find the best match of functions to the light you have But sometimes it will find a partial match so that it finds iris and focus which you need on a page that also has zoom and diffusion which your light doesn t have leaving two encoders wasted And sometimes depending on the page it
3. allow the system to expand and grow as new technologies In the auditorium itself the same system controls all are developed ShowNet Strand s Ethernet based control of the houselights and worklights using a simple to protocol uses industry standard TCP IP communications to use yet sophisticated control design developed by transmit data and can easily be upgraded with simple soft Theatre Projects as a standard for all of their facili ware updates for the main control consoles and data ties The basic concept is that a stage manager can nodes The lighting system can easily manage color chang select Day Night and Show conditions for the entire ers effects devices or moving lights by simply plugging in system that will automatically enable and disable lo one of the portable data nodes anywhere on the network cal controls appropriate to the setting chosen Select and connecting whatever type of lighting equipment de ing the Show setting for example sired Over 8000 devices can be connected to the network e Enables the show lighti ts for h light and controlled by the lighting desk nables the show lighting presets Tor nouselig ing in the auditorium Architectural Lighting Control e Locks out all local controls in public spaces The public spaces throughout the building are controlled e Turns on Running lights back stage using a central computer system that offers facility wide e Turns off worklights throughout the theatre control that a
4. and is currently a lecturer in stage lighting at NIDA Arena Opera Carmen ina Football Stadium by Rob Halliday In early September close on 30 000 people took their seats in the Arena AufSchalke in Gelsen kirchen Germany Usually the arena is the home to the FC Schalke football team Yet this au dience hadn t come to enjoy soc cer but an altogether different type of evening s entertainment an epic production of the opera Carmen featuring a cast of hundreds plus horses dogs fireworks fire and more besides Produced by the Dutch based Companions Opera who specialize in exactly this kind of arena opera production Carmen was lit by British lighting designer Simon Mills making his debut with the company With a huge playing area to contend with Mills specified an almost entirely automated lighting rig a total of almost 350 luminaires made up of a mixture of Martin Mac2000 Performances Mac2000 Washes Mac500s and Mac600s Coemar iWash and NAT400s Clay Paky Stage Zooms and StudioDue CityColors plus some PAR Cans and two CinePars distrib uted across six trusses plus around the sides and floor of the arena The rig was supplied and installed by The Light Concept in Germany their team led by Joachim Denne man Dirk Martik and Patrick Terwort while working with Simon Mills was assistant lighting designer Alex Brok With both the quantity of lights and their complexity in terms of DMX channe
5. bleacher seats for up to 150 people installed by Arena Seating makes this a flexible space It s a typical studio space with a lighting grid that covers the whole of the area High and low level sound and lighting facility panels ensure equipment locations can be equally flexible In the control room lighting occupies the left hand side with a 250 channel Strand 300 series lighting desk controlling four LD90 dimmers located in a separate dimmer room House lighting is handled by another Outlook system controlling an LD90 while the luminaire count is headed by Par 64s and Par 30 floods Again the whole infrastructure allows for anything movers scrollers etc to be brought in says Cullen Karl Spencer concludes Our School of Music and Drama has been transformed with the opening of these two new spaces and as you can imagine the students are de lighted xConnect Designer USB Key Drive In Action by Rob Halliday Launched at the 2003 PLASA Show in London in Septem ber for Europe and at LDI in Orlando for North America xConnect Strand s new Designer Remote software for Windows or Mac OS X is already proving itself invaluable to lighting designers xConnect is supplied on a USB memory drive plug it into the back of a PC running Windows or a Macintosh running OS X and the computer effectively becomes a remote con sole able to interact with a Strand 300 or 500 series con sole via a ShowNet Ethernet network vi
6. drive is available now from Strand dealers everywhere in addition to the xCon nect software it contains Strand manuals and other useful reference material in PDF format and still leaves space for files of your own such as backups of important show files Console Programming Tips December by Rob Halliday ATC Pages At some point whether they realize it or not someone using a Strand 500 series console will come to accept that of the controls on the right hand side of the console the wheel always controls intensity the trackball always controls the pan and tilt of moving lights and the four ro tary encoders control the other functions of a light col our gobo iris focus or whatever When you select a light that has more than four functions the console presents some of the functions on the rotary encoders the functions selected are shown in the Rotary window on the cue playback screen and at the same time are indicated on the channel display if you are in Tracker of Tracker Preset display mode If the func tions you need are not selected you move to other combi nations of functions by pressing the left or right hand key above the trackball Alternatively holding down the centre key above the trackball presents six sets of functions on the channel control LCD softkeys What relatively few people explore is the way this behav ior is controlled what decides which combinations of a light s functions land on whic
7. gt used to indicate a range of attributes A full listing of the attribute numbers can be found in the user manual in the Fixture Library file IMORE NOTES DISP LOAD FILE FIXT LIB or can be seen on the left of the channel control screen when you se lect a moving light You can customize both what each filter is called and the attributes it contains by editing the details here For example if you often store position and index together so that the orientation of a gobo is stored with its position you might want to create a specific filter for that combination To do this edit the F6 entry to read F6 P Idx 3 gt 4 23 Then save the changes by pressing SAVE FILE Now every time you use ATT P ldx the con sole will select and use attributes 3 4 and 23 pan tilt and index Attribute Display Order D1 This is the Display order setting for the console multiple console systems will have D1 D5 to gov ern the display order for each console in the sys tem This setting governs the order in which attrib utes are displayed on the console s screen in Tracker and Tracker Preset displays By default attributes are arranged in numerical order But if you re using a moving light that has both a colour wheel and colour mixing you might prefer to see colour attribute 2 then colour mixing attributes 11 12 and 13 then pan and tilt in which case you could amend the D1 listing to say D1 1
8. previously had selected it will find a page that matches the functions but in a different order which can lead to confusion when focus for example sometime ap pears on the third encoder and sometimes on the fourth The solution is to customize the ATC Pages to your needs Start by deleting all of the standard ATC pages Then just make the ones you need So for example if you have a show that has colour scrollers colour mixing wash lights and spotlights that have iris focus gobo and zoom then just make the pages b1 Col 128 4 2 11 12 13 52 Beam 1 3 4 5 6 8 53 Each number is separated by acomma and a push of the TAB key Why pages 51 and 52 rather than 1 and 2 Because pages 51 56 are the ones that appear on the channel con trol LCD display when you hold down the centre trackball key allowing you to jump straight to them if you want to Though in this case you wouldn t have to since the console would always select the right page for the light you se lected unless you selected a combination of fixture types using THRU or If you have lights with more functions then you ll no doubt need more pages and in some cases you might want the same attribute to appear in more than one page so that Page 15 you can use the colour wheel with the colour mixing of a washlight and with the gobo function of the spotlight The two most useful tricks are to figure out the combinations of functions you ll want
9. production program as well as guest performers at the Centre to take full ad vantage of true 21st Century theatre technology Until the upgrade completed in early September the theatre had been referring to its previous system as one of the world s only fully operational dimmer museums comprised of an assortment of dimmers from various decades and manufac turers and spanning several stages from the past few dec ades of technological development Head Electrician Dave Ingraham along with assistants Kriss Ladd and Dan Mcll moyl began the project in November 2002 in consultation with the Q1 Vancouver Project Department headed by Her men Kailley Having attended the Banff Centre as a stu Q1 s Hermen Kailley turns over the new SLD dimming system to dent in the mid 90 s before going on to perform Assistant the Banff Centre s John Avery Technical Director duties as well as coordinating the Thea trecraft and Workstudy training programs Kailley had a keen understanding of the theatre s needs and worked closely with both the department s administrative and tech nical staff to achieve their goals The new all Strand sys tem is designed around the theatre s existing Strand 530 console and gives designers and technicians working in the Eric Harvie Theatre full reporting capabilities from their wide variety of music film drama opera and dance The first performance utilizing the new dimming sys tem was a September w
10. show linked three consoles an SLD rack and three WYSIWYG PC s all con nected together Each WYSIWYG PC was mapped giir E L i T ey T T Dee es Fr iw Wi pat i rT ena TTL LT J A 550i console with WYSIWYG display to an individual console over the network allowing three simultaneous presentations The star of the show was our new SLD SST Sine wave dimmer The SST is the first 120 volt true Sine wave dimmer This revolu tionary product delivers e NO lamp noise not just quiet lamps but SILENT lamps e Total harmonic distor tion of less than 1 e No triplen harmonics no need for K rated transformers or oversized neutrals SST Sinewave Dimmer Across the show floor at the ESTA stand we partici pated in the first technical demonstration of the new ACN protocol A Strand 300 desk connected flaw lessly to dimmer racks moving lights and network devices from a diverse group of manufacturers Lighting Santa s Kingdom Down Under by Gavan Swift Visitors enter Santa s Kingdom by walking through the inside of a Christmas Tree Santa s Kingdom is a new Christmas themed experience installed for the first time in Australia at Fox Studios It is based on a concept that has been running in Ireland for the last few years to create a magical Christmas experience for kids of all ages The Australian version has been created by David Atkins who also directed the Sydney Olympics Ope
11. the installation The technical planning of the lighting installa tion is the work of GCA Ingenieure AG of Munich The three storey building opened in 1913 is used for cor porate cultural and social events attended by around 100 000 guests a year Marketing events are also held here as well as jazz pop and rock concerts operas and per formances by symphony orchestras The Feierabendhaus has a main auditorium the Festsaal three foyers with a capacity of 560 guests a smaller concert hall for chamber music that seats 250 four banqueting halls eight confer ence rooms and a 2 0 seater restaurant The restaurant and the banqueting halls double as corporate dining rooms at lunch time The Festsaal seats 1 300 and features a central stage with a performing area 13 metres wide 6 metres deep and 9 5 metres high In addition there is a rear stage 9 6 metres wide 4 metres deep and 7 45 metres high and side stages 4 right and 3 6 left metres wide and 6 6 metres deep For rigging purposes there are fifteen 300 kilogram tubular shaft stage hoists The orchestra pit is 16 75 metres wide and 4 22 metres deep with a height adjustable in the range 0 to 1 1 metres The proscenium arch in the Festsaal is 10 8 metres wide and variable in height between 1 5 and 6 66 metres Ten Page 10 profile spots and two fresnels 2 kW each are mounted on the transverse bridge section The pil lars of the arch are equipped with four profile
12. to ac cess together for example focus and index with gobo so that you can quickly choose a gobo then set its orientation and softness and to ensure that when one attribute appears in more than ATC Page it always appears on the same rotary focus always on the bottom encoder for example That removes the momentary hesitation of deciding which encoder to reach for Conversely you don t have to include a particular attribute anywhere if your lights have a strobe function but you know you re never going to use it and don t want to se lect it accidentally don t include that parameter in any of the ATC Pages If you do later need to take control of it either edit the ATC Pages file again or select it directly 1 41 level or 1 41 then use the intensity wheel for the strobe of channel 1 For certain situations you might want to customize things further For example everyone who s been taught the console has probably been told that the intensity wheel always controls intensity the track ball always controls pan and tilt But you can see that s only true because the standard ATC Pages all start 1 3 4 and you can also now see that these can be changed Users who have come to the 500 series from other consoles might prefer to have pan and tilt controlled by the rotary encoders rather than the trackball for example in which case 51 Pos 3 0 0 0 0 3 A attribute O is used to force an encoder to do n
13. ERT HALL THE BACKSTAGE STORY written by Richard Pilbrow and Patricia Mackay The book will tell the behind the scenes story of the 16 year history of the design and technology of the building Further information on the book can be obtained at www tpcworld com or www etbooks co uk LDI 2003 Orlando The LDI show in Orlando last month brought together a diverse group of visitors from across the world to see the latest in technology and attend a host of seminars on a wide range of topics The Strand Lighting stand was filled with visitors all interested to learn about new E 3 technologies The main theme of the Strand exhibit was connectivity with all of the controls and dimmers cross connected over both a wired and wireless ShowNet Network Leading off our wireless connectivity presentation was a Mac PowerBook with our new USB Designer remote key drive connecting to a 550i console across the stand Visitors could see multi ple console screens and access the console directly from the Mac over our wireless network seamlessiy The same wireless network supported a wireless DMX bridge be tween two consoles and an SN110 node in the center of the stand The node was connected to a wireless access point allowing it to receive data for port 1 from a 550i and The new Designer Remote Key Drive was demonstrated on a Mac PowerBook that operated over a wireless connection port 2 from a 520i console Our wired network at the
14. EXOLEC has chosen Strand Lighting They opted for the high performance optics of the Quartet 650W PCs the larger Alto 2000W PC s and the soft and continu ous light of the Iris 1250 1500 W cyclorama luminaries For pattern projection the precision Toccata 2000 W profiles were selected for their condenser optical system to deliver clean sharp patterns They also chose four racks LD90 dimmers for the main dimming control throughout the facility Their proven reli Page 9 ability for over 10 years all around the world under a wide range working conditions made the LD90 range a logical choice LD90 dimmers with the convection cooling made it possible to place the dimmer racks wherever they were needed and helped the design team as they were laying out the building A l occasion du Congr s Mondial de la Jeunesse qui a eu lieu au mois d ao t cette ann e la soci t SO MARA distributeur Strand Lighting au Maroc a reali s l installation et l exploitation de l Eclairage de la grande salle et des 3 petites salles du centre M Ismail BERRAK directeur de SOMARA Division Sys t mes et responsable du projet explique c est la simplicit d utilisation et la versatilite des projecteurs Strand Lighting ainsi que leur fiabilit m canique et l excellente qualit de lumi re qui a s duit ing nieur au sein du bureau d tudes ATLAS CONSULT EXO LEC Ils les ont choisi la conception optique de grande qualit des Qu
15. a an Ethernet cable or even wirelessly if the network has a wireless base station and the computer has a wireless Ethernet card ZU IM I he 2 j i Pi ie D r 7 ii m C 0 Cameron Mackintosh s new production of Oliver xConnect has already been used on the new US tours of the musicals Oliver and Oklahoma On Oliver lighting designer Jenny Kagan used xConnect with a 15 Macin tosh PowerBook laptop connected to an external screen Her setup was configured with four windows three as re mote console screens giving her a cue list plus the full channel list configured as she liked and independent of the Page 13 Oliver was designed by Adrian Vaux with lighting by Jenny Kagan console the fourth mirroring the video display of the main console For Oklahoma both lighting designer Ted Mather and assistant Greg Guarnaccia used xConnect Mather had a Macintosh G4 Tower showing the cue list plus two sets of channel displays one in 25 wide format the other showing the scroller channels with colour names rather than frame numbers for ease of reference Guarnaccia had a cue list window open on his PC laptop while calling followspots In both cases xConnect allowed them to arrange their views The Oklahoma Design table as they prefer and be independent of the work of the shows lighting programmer giving them easier ac cess to more information than using a video node The xConnect memory
16. artet PC 650 W Pour leur haut rendement lumineux et leurs performances le v es il a opt pour les Altos projecteurs PC 2000W La lumi re douce et sans discontinuit des Iris pro jecteurs cyclorama 1250 1500 W a donn pleine sa tisfaction au client la gamme est disponible dans plusieurs combinaisons allant de l appareil individuel aux mod les 4 circuits 4 couleurs finalement pour la projection de gobos les Toccata d coupes de 2000 W caract ris es par un faisceau net et homo g ne et une focalisation pr cise ont t choisies Pour graduer la lumi re Atlas Consult Expolec a opt pour 4 armoires de la gamme LD90 gradateurs lectroniquement et m caniquement fiables qui de puis plus de dix ans ont fait leurs preuves partout dans le monde et dans toutes les conditions climati ques et de travail Le plus qui a orient les d cideurs vers le LD90 a t le fait que le refroidissement de ce produit tant par convection il est absolument silencieux New Lighting Control for BASF Leisure Centre we are pleased to offer this story in both English and German for our international readers BASF has commissioned a consortium consisting of Tho mann Audio Professionell of Burgebrach and Imtech of Neustadt to install a new stage lighting system in its corpo rate leisure centre the Feierabendhaus in Ludwigshafen Thomann is supplying a modern lighting control system from Strand Lighting while Imtech is responsible for
17. ceiling lighting position Photo courtesy Theatre Projects Consultants TPC s stage engineering team in London worked with the LA Philharmonic to design a customized variable performance platform Thirteen computer driven lift mechanisms can change from a flat floor to a variety of musical settings A large lift at the back of the platform can support seating for a choir or au dience The control system for these lifts utilizes wireless technology and can be programmed and run by a single operator working at the platform level TPC consulted with musicians of the LA Philhar monic making sure the dressing and rehearsal rooms were to their liking and planning the backstage instrument storage areas which have to accommodate everything from tim pani to grand pianos Pilbrow and his team spent a day at a Phil harmonic rehearsal measuring the space around each musician to see just what they needed for the new stage TPC also used 3 D computer model ing to check audience sightlines throughout all phases of building design and construc tion These 3 D studies are used on the Walt Disney Concert Hall web site for marketing and ticket sales The collaboration started when Pilbrow was approached in 1989 to come to LA to work with Gehry and acousticians Minoru Nagata and Yasuhisa Toyota on the initial design for the hall The following TPC staff had major responsibilities on the WDCH project Richard Pilbrow Principal in C
18. dimmers enabling efficient set up and reliable playback of lighting looks and more complex support of music and other events The modular dim Page 3 ming system controls permanent house systems but also supplies integrated control to infrastructure for safe and effective installation of temporary systems A robust Strand lighting Ethernet is incorporated into the concert hall for present and future lighting tech nology needs Walt Disney Concert Hall celebrates the summit of quality lighting design technology and infrastructure and continues the long relationship of Theatre Pro jects Consultants and Strand Lighting in creating and effecting successful designs for the performing arts Strand s Design The lighting system for the Walt Disney Concert Hall was the result of Strand s collaboration with Theatre Projects to realize the intent of their specification for the project As many who have worked on the project will attest the long design and gestation period for the building meant that everyone on the team had to adapt their work to insure that it was indeed State of the Art when the building was turned over to the owners in the summer of 2003 The system had to meet the needs of the primary tenant the Los Angeles Symphony and those of all of the other performers who are booked into the facil ity ranging from string quartets to popular musicians of all types The design called for near silent dim mers for
19. e changing needs of the studio on a daily basis Over 500 luminaries including Strand Bambinos Studio Fresnels Arturo Softlights Coda Cyc s and SL Ellipsoidals The light ing equipment includes conventional and moving lights and A general view of the new studio with integrated news can create a variety of scenes simultaneously allowing the facility to broadcast up to five different programs at the same time Key individuals involved in the construction and technology applications for this project were e Lic Max Arteaga VP of Operations e Ing Elias Rodriguez Technical Director e Ing Antonio Pirron Director of Engineering e Architect Rafael Calva Director of Productions Luis Miguel Flores right Televisa s Lighting Designer and Pat Henry Strand s Representative Strand Dealers Sweep ESTA Manufacturers Dealer of the year awards at LDI The Manufacturers Choice Dealers of the Year Awards offer ESTA s Manufacturer Members the op portunity to publicly recognize those Dealers that just do it right These awards recognize supe rior performance in four main areas Staff Sales and Marketing Inventory and Financial Responsibility Manufacturers cast their votes for Dealers in each of three categories based on the Dealers number of employees 1 6 7 25 and over 25 We are pleased to announce this year s winners are all Strand Light ing Dealers e Murphy Lighting Systems e Parlights e Vincent Lig
20. e Electrics sets the stage for University Of Manchester UK The University of Manchester s new 6 million School of Music and Drama celebrated the opening of its purpose built concert hall drama studio and recording studio on 21 October 2003 The Chancellor broadcaster Anna Ford presided over a ceremony in which writer and comedian Ben Elton music scholar and critic Michael Kennedy and internationally renowned soprano Amanda Roocroft re ceived honorary degrees The building includes the new Cosmo Rodewald Concert Hall the John Thaw Studio Theatre the Lenagan Library audio visual facilities improved performance workshop and practice spaces as well as new electro acoustic music studios run jointly with the Royal Northern College of Music Stage Electrics designed and installed the new facilities sound and lighting systems created specifically for use by students with Hills Electrical plc main contractor Totty Construction architects Cruickshank amp Seward and acoustic consultants Arup The new buildings on Coupland Street afford a host of fresh opportunities for collaborative teaching and research and for the development of new courses The Music Department boasts a 350 seat concert hall while the Drama Department is equipped with a fully func tional studio theatre The concert hall has been designed primarily for orchestral performances with stage space for up to a 90 piece orchestra Four lighting trusses are
21. fitted with Strand Cantata and SL lanterns while the Concert Hall control room houses the Strand 300 series lighting desk controlling the three Strand LD90 dimmer panels The LD 90 dimmer racks being installed by Stage Electrics Page 12 The audio system is specified primarily for voice an nouncements and comprises RCF Vision PA151 loudspeakers and DCA1050 amplifiers XTA DP224 digital loudspeaker controllers a Mackie 1642VLZ mixer and a Tec pro comms system A building wide paging system allows a large production to make use of both sets of dressing rooms and backstage facili ties The paging system is all RCF with MR3S and Next 2 loudspeakers a PD1066 six zone switcher and BM3067 paging mics t 88S FSG EN HUE ee ee a 2 888 SEE ER ae BSS AR AN Seas i u I A 300 series desk and Outlook architectural controls were specified for the theatre Specified to allow use by non technical staff house lighting is under the command of a Strand Outlook architectural control system with push button selec tion of eight preset states There s also a 96 channel Strand 300 series lighting desk Extra DMX lines and spare power are liberally provided so that additional luminaires can be brought in on demand Tim Cullen Stage Electrics project manager com mented The drama studio is the pi ce de r sis tance it s a good space and the control room al though easy to use is very versatile Retractable
22. h als Betriebsgaststatte genutzt Der Festsaal verf gt ber 1 300 Sitzpl tze und eine Mittelb hne mit einer bespielbaren Fl che von 13 m Breite 6 m Tiefe und 9 5 m H he Dazu kommen Hinterb hne Breite 9 6 m Tiefe 4 m H he 7 45 m und Seitenb hnen Breite rechts 4 m beziehungsweise links 3 6 m Tiefe 6 6 m Die B hnenz ge bestehen aus 15 Rohrwellenz gen mit einer Nutzlast von 300 Kilogramm Der Orchestergraben hat eine Breite von 16 75 m eine Tiefe von 4 22 m und ist in der H he von 0 bis 1 1 m verfahrbar Das B hnenportal im Festsaal ist 10 8 m breit und in der H he variabel zwischen 1 5 m und 6 66 m Zehn Profilscheinwerfer und zwei Stufenlinsenwerfer mit jeweils 2 kW best cken die Portalbr cke Die Portalt rme sind mit je vier Profilscheinwerfern 1 kW die Orchesterbeleuchtung mit 20 Profilscheinwerfern 2 kW das Contralicht mit f nf Profilscheinwerfern 1 KW und der Vorsatzscheinwerfer mit acht Profilscheinwerfern 1 kW ausgestattet Auf den beiden Z Br cken befinden sich insgesamt 26 Profilscheinwerfer 2 kW und vier Verfolger 2 kW Zehn Saall ster mit je 47 Leuchten sorgen f r die Beleuchtung im Zuschauerhaus Die gesamte fest installierte Lichtleistung betr gt 184 kW Page 11 Friedrich Weppler technischer Direktor im Feierabendhaus hatte schon in der Vergangenheit gute Erfahrungen mit Lichtsteuer Equipment darunter verschiedenen Konsolen und Analogdimmern von Strand Lighting gemacht und s
23. h encoders at any time The answer is what the console calls ATC Pages ATC stand ing for attribute control Most people will have noticed ATC Pages on the con sole s Archive screen This implies that as with most ar eas of the functionality of these consoles the way that these encoders behave can be customized very easily and such customization can dramatically improve a op erator s efficiency when dealing with moving lights Exploring further is a matter of pressing MORE NOTES DISP LOAD FILE ATC PAGE This loads the console s ATC PAGE file into its text editor Scroll down and you ll find that this file contains three sets of information Function Filters F1 F6 These are the console s function filters quick ways of selecting combinations of attributes when storing informa tion in or recalling information from cues groups sub masters or effects for example with the command 1 UPDATE GROUP 1 ATT position to store the position of light 1 into reference group 1 Note the ATT key is called ATTRIB on 300 series con soles Page 14 The use of function filters has been described in earlier newsletters particularly the Summer 2003 issue By default the console arrives with a stan dard setup of which attributes fall under which category of filter position colour beam focus or whatever the numbers listed under each filter are the console s attribute numbers with
24. harge Jer emy Godden Project Manager George Ellerington Stage Engineering Mark Stroomer Seating and Sightlines and David H Rosenburg Stage Lighting A Lighting Designers Perspective by David Taylor Theatre Projects Consultants ay Chandler years been battered by the harsh glare of Ren flood lights in Disney Concert Hall we achieved that same lighting level plus a little more for broadcast needs with far more control and precision using arrays of Strand SL Spotlights from carefully integrated ports in the highly finished wood ceiling The SL19 and SL26 Coolbeam SL units provide an even manageable beam shape in a compact and functional housing most important given the complexity of the ceiling bellies and the density of unit deployment for even glare free lighting from within the architecture The team at TPC developed the lighting scheme for Dis ney Concert Hall by careful analysis of the room architec ture and collaboration with Frank Gehry comparative studies with many of the leading orchestras in the United States and with accurate design models in a CAD envi ronment but all this hard work over many years needed both a high quality lighting instrument to deliver the light to the platform and a reliable infrastructure to balance and control the lighting for the diverse range of sym phonic and non orchestral uses within the hall Strand 550i consoles control more than 400 Strand CD80 Series digital
25. hting Systems Paul Vincent said It s an honor to be recognized by our vendors through the ESTA Manufacturer s Choice Dealer of the Year Awards This is our sec ond year in a row and it would not be possible with out our great team members loyal customers and reliable vendors Gene Murphy from Murphy Lighting system adds We deeply appreciate being recognized by the manufacturers for our efforts The demands of our live performance industry require a collaborative ef fort by the manufacturer dealer and of course the client to make it all happen and on time The fact that the Dealer Of The Year Awards in all three cate gories went to leading Strand Lighting dealers is in dicative of Strand s renewed strength in the market place Walt Dowling of Parlights said We truly appreciate all the support of our customers ESTA and manufacturers We could not have earned this honor without their support ES
26. ich darum auch bei der Generalsanierung f r Anlagen von Strand Lighting entschieden Zum Einsatz kommen jetzt unter anderem die Konsolen Genius 530 und 520 im Multi User Betrieb mit DMX Verteilung an 24 aktive DMX Ausgange im Netzwerk The Main 530 console Die 520er Konsole wird mobil eingesetzt F r das Feierabendhaus hatte Friedrich Weppler weiterhin gefordert dass eine Vielzahl unterschiedlicher Komponenten in einem heterogenen Verbund von Analog und Digitalsignalen zusammenarbeiten sollte Das Ergebnis ist ein flexibles Ethernet DMX und Profibus sowie Outlook Netzwerk mit Equipment von Strand Lighting in Verbindung mit Material aus der Automatisierungsindustrie das eine raum bergreifende Steuerung von 408 gedimmten Scheinwerferkreisen ebenso wie die erforderlichen Backups f r eine Anlage dieser Gr enordnung erm glicht Daf r stehen unter anderem 16 Outlook Stationen sowie ein SN 100 Netzwerkknoten f r Ethernet DMX berg nge zur Verf gung Auf Wunsch von Weppler wurde au erdem eine Nebenpultl sung mit drei Farb Touchpanels f r weitere 138 direkte Stromkreise UV Hauptschalter Arbeitslicht Blau und Wei licht sowie verschiedenen Nebenfunktionen der Haussteuerung installiert Die Lichtsteuerung des Foyers erfolgt ber Outlook Stationen und zentral ber die Touchpanels von Strand Lighting Als Dimmer wurden vier SLD 96 Schr nke sowie ein LD 90 Schrank ebenfalls von Strand Lighting ausgew hlt Stag
27. ing systems backstage facilities and seating The Walt Disney Concert Hall is already world renowned for its exterior undulating stainless steel curves and the unusually intimate interior of warm wood paneling Collaborating with Frank Gehry says Richard Pilbrow TPC s chairman meant making Gehry s vision work He was devoted to a central design concept for the audi torium of a great wooden space like the inside of a boat No modern technology could show unless it abso lutely had to That s quite difficult to achieve particu larly in lighting In addition to the architect s wish that the lights be hidden and the acoustician s wish that no open holes be made in the ceiling the lighting had to answer a variety of needs for the LA Philharmonic and other users of the hall The majority of the lighting fixtures are hidden above the billow ing wooden ceiling and fixed to a forest of lighting trees They are very tightly focused through a series of glazed A view of the interior of the hall from the Balcony Photo courtesy Theatre Projects Consultants Page 2 holes and lighting bridges The light ing system can accommodate a full orchestra small ensemble and more elabo rate stage events for which special equipment can be added via struc tural Support points and addi tional electrical circuits To maintain an integral ceiling those points are covered by nearly invisible plugs A typical
28. l requirements the show required a console capable of dealing with sixteen universes of DMX In programming the show wanted a console that would work in the familiar theatrical style that the lighting de signer was comfortable with Hence we specified a 2500 Page 7 channel Strand 530i with a second console as backup The console ran four universes of DMX di rectly then fed three SN103 nodes via ShowNet each node outputting a further four universes ShowNet was also fed to a Macintosh G4 laptop run ning WYSIWYG under Virtual PC this provided a virtual view of the rig that was useful both for check ing that the real rig was behaving as expected and for roughing in looks or making minor changes during the daylight hours when the real rig wasn t entirely visible The networked connection meant that WYSIWYG was able to receive and display all six teen universes simultaneously The lighting for the show was created over three nights program ming making use of many of the features recently added to the console including the extension of the off line 2 4 editor to 6000 channels during show preparation N then odd even range a selection of lights and the RANGE function for quickly creating offset fans of light across the arena Each night s work was then refined the next evening over rehearsals with the cast The final result opened to general acclaim and will return this De cember albeit with a slightly smal
29. ler rig in Zurich The Strand Newsletter is published elec tronically four times a year If would like to receive a copy directly please email us at Page 8 Canada s Banff Centre for the Arts chooses SLD Dimming dimmers to the lighting booth as well as providing an infrastructure for expedient and economical upgrades in the future Dave Ingraham s preliminary equipment decisions The Banff Centre Theatre Arts Department a carefully were confirmed after attending Q1 Vancouver s open integrated system of programs dedicated to training and house last winter Richard Goode of Strand Canada professional development for artists and technicians at demonstrated the SLD dimmer and Wireless iPaq every stage in their careers recently undertook a major A 360 camera view of the Eric Harvie Theatre at the Banff Centre overhaul of the lighting system in the primary performance remote system The 959 seat venue is the main venue at the Centre the Eric Harvie Theatre The founda theatre in the theatre complex It is a proscenium tion of all activities in the Theatre Arts Department is the house with fly tower that regularly accommodates a investigation of contemporary repertoire and creation of new works in drama dance opera and music theatre as well as development in interdisciplinary art forms such as direction and design The installation of the new Strand dimming system in the theatre enables all participants in the
30. llows spaces to be controlled locally for spe cial events or system wide during performances All of the The stage manager has a single button to press and controls throughout the facility have colour coordinated fin the lighting system executes a wide range of com ishes from basic black backstage to brushed stainless steel mands as a result of that choice insuring that the in public areas This system controls all houselights lobby theatre is ready to run a performance Selecting other choices reverses many of the selections made by the show preset allowing people to work in the theatre run tours of the facility or shutdown the theatre for the night Pre Concert Area Controls A unique space has been created off of the main lobby that can be used for receptions performances or special events of any type The area features its own lighting and audio systems including 92 dimmers and a 300 series console This system is part of the overall ShowNet Ethernet net work and systems may be cross connected with the main control system in the theatre to create a central control for a large event The lighting control systems in the Disney Hall represent the current state of the art in the industry Their design will provide years of solid performance and are designed to evolve as the technology changes over time For Further Reading Theatre Projects Trust along with Enter tainment Technology Press have pro duced a book WALT DISNEY CON C
31. lume of the SMPTE to enable the Strand con sole to lock on to the timecode We also had an issue with a hum developing in the sound cable that upset the ability of the console to lock on but once elimi nated the control system ran perfectly The entire light and sound show is controlled backstage by the stage manager via a remote trigger box The rig for the Panto stage consists of Mac 500 s Iris 4 s a variety of profile spotlights with Wybron Cxi s The Ice Stage rig has Mac 2000 Washes Mac 2000 Performances and Par 64 s The entire rig in cluding the Strand control system was supplied by Chameleon Touring Systems Santa s Kingdom is produced in Australia by David Atkins Enterprises International Concert Attractions and Garry Van Egmond Gavan Swift graduated from NIDA in 1994 His musical lighting designs include The Mikado The Pirates Of Penzance Hot Shoe Shuffle Little Shop of Horrors Sweet Charity Fiddler on the Roof Buddy Oh What A Night Footloose and Hair He has also de signed the lighting for the Production Company s Mame The Music Man Hair and Mack amp Mabel Gavan s most recent work includes OzOpera s production of La Boheme International Con cert Attractions production of The Nutcracker on Ice the Ensem ble Theatre s Productions of All My Sons Noises Off and Lush and the Australian tour of Burn The Floor Gavan was the Austra lian Assistant Lighting Designer for Cabaret and The Lion King
32. n provided At Weppler s request an auxiliary console system was also installed It includes three colour panels providing a further 138 direct circuits UV main switches working light blue and white light as well as vari ous ancillary house control functions The foyer lighting con trol is realized by Outlook stations and centrally by touch panels from Strand Lighting As dimmers four SLD 96 dim racks and an LD 90 cabinet were chosen These too are from Strand Lighting Im Zuge einer Generalsanierung beauftragte BASF eine ARGE aus den Unternehmen Thomann Audio Professionell in Burgebrach und Imtech in Neustadt mit der Erneuerung der szenischen Beleuchtungsanlage im Feierabendhaus in Ludwigshafen Thomann lieferte das komplette Equipment f r eine moderne Lichtsteuerung von Strand Lighting Imtech realisierte die Installation F r die lichttechnische Fachplanung zeichnete GCA Ingenieure in M nchen verantwortlich Das 1913 er ffnete dreigeschossige Geb ude wird f r betriebliche kulturelle und gesellschaftliche Veranstaltungen mit rund 100 000 G sten pro Jahr genutzt Marketing Events finden hier ebenso statt wie Jazz Pop und Rock Opern oder symphonische Konzerte Das Feierabendhaus bietet einen Festsaal drei Foyers mit einer Kapazit t f r 560 G ste einen Kammermusiksaal f r 250 Personen vier Bankett und acht Tagungsr ume sowie ein Restaurant mit 270 Sitzpl tzen Das Restaurant und die Bankettraume werden mittags auc
33. ning Cere mony It has been created as a walk through journey that x The Ice Stage features figure skating performances Page 6 takes children through the inside of a Christmas tree then through Santa s Workshop then onto his Barn yard followed by an Enchanted Forest before arriv ing in Santa s Village In the Village is a 100ft long real snow slide a snow ball throwing area two car ousels a post office where the children can write a letter to Santa a 30ft Christmas tree shops and an ice skating show and a pantomime stage After ex periencing the Village the children then get to meet Santa and have their photo taken with him The Panto and Ice stages are controlled by a Strand 500 series system triggered via SMPTE timecode For programming a 550i was supplied with a 510i as the back up but due to limited space backstage the 510i has show control while the 550i lives under the stage as a back up remote console As this is a tem porary installation there is no control room and no lighting infrastructure to speak of The shows have no lighting operator so all the lighting cues are triggered via SMPTE timecode The complex nature of install ing a temporary site like this means that the SMPTE source is in the main sound control room well away from lighting control The cable run from sound con trol to the Strand console is over 150 metres long which provided a few headaches as we fiddled with the vo
34. orkshop of the new Barrage touring show The Banff Centre also houses a sec ondary theatre the 246 seat Margaret Greenham Theatre and a 175 seat cabaret theatre Le Centre de Conference et D Exposi tions De L Office Des Changes A Casablanca by Bianca Marafioti We are pleased to offer this story in both English and French for our international readers The Office des Changes the Bureau of Exchange in Mo rocco has started construction the first major convention centre in Casablanca Located 15 minutes from the city centre the building is composed of a main hall of 1100 seats 3 smaller confer ence rooms and 2 Exhibition Halls The centre is devoted to cultural and professional events like workshops interna tional meetings shows concerts music halls and fashion shows The facility also offers a beautiful setting for the In ternational Exhibition of New Technologies Sit Expo a very important event for information technology and com munication in Morocco The 1100 seat main hall at the Casablanca Conference Centre At Youth World Congress in August held this year SOMARA our distributor in Morocco provided the lighting installation for the center main hall and 3 smaller confer ence rooms Mr Ismail Berrak director of SOMARA Divi sion Systemes and responsible for the project explains thanks to your versatile and easy to use luminaires and their mechanical reliability the research consultancy ATLAS CONSULT
35. oth ing And occasionally having a fifth attribute controller available simultaneously can be useful for exam ple with moving lights that offer framing shutters to have the ability to rotate the whole shutter set In that case why not use the four rotaries to control the shutters plus the intensity wheel to control the rota tion of the whole shutter assembly Or for a light that uses two attributes per shutter make two ATC Pages assuming 68 is the shutter rotation attribute 72 79 are the shutter attributes 56 Shut 68 3 4 2 73 4 75 57 Shut2 68 3 4 76 77 78 W A new Broadcast News Center for Televisa by Mauricio Guzman Last July Televisa opened the doors of their brand new stu dio The News Center atthe Televisa Chapultepec facility in Mexico City Mexico It is one of the most ambitious pro duction news centers built to date and integrates cutting edge technology that will renew the way news is presented in Mexico The multifunctional set concept was the creation of Tim Saunders from Broadcast Design International acompany well known to most networks in North America The Lighting design was created by Televisa s Ing Luis Miguel Flores and assisted by our Strand Lighting Repre sentative in Mexico Mr Patrick Henry Nufez LD The News Center has five CD80 SV Dimmer racks plus three 520i Series consoles working together over a ShowNet Network to provide flexible control to meet th
36. spots 1 kW and there are 20 2 kW spots for the orchestra in addition there five 1 kW profiles for cross lighting and eight 1kW units as ancillary spots On the two Z bridges there are 26 2 kW spotlights and four follow spots 2 kW Ten chandeliers with 47 lights each illuminate the audience seating area of the Festsaal The total lighting capacity of the installation is 184 kW Friedrich Weppler Technical Director of the Feiera bendhaus has had good experiences working with lighting control equipment from Strand Lighting in the past including a number of different consoles and analogue dimmers and this influenced his choice of Strand Lighting for the Feierabendhaus renovation The system he has assembled includes both Genius 530 and 520 consoles in multi user mode with DMX distribution to 24 active DMX outputs in the network In this set up the 520 console is mobile Friedrich Weppler also wanted a large number of dif ferent components operating together in a heteroge neous combination of analogue and digital signals The result is a flexible Ethernet DMX Profibus and Outlook network in which equipment from Strand Lighting combines with elements from the automation industry to make possible the control of 408 dimmed spotlight circuits spread among several rooms com plete with all the backups a system of this size re quires For this purpose 16 Outlook stations and an SN 100 network node for Ethernet DMX transitions have bee
37. the hall itself and our standard high perform ance dimmers in the rest of the facility The entire system is controlled by a sophisticated computer net work that allows the lighting throughout the facility to be controlled dynamically through a wide range of user interfaces Page 4 Dimming Systems The dimmer systems used are Strand s CD80 series digi tal dimmers with high per formance filter chokes to in sure that no lamp noise in trudes into the silence of the Hall To meet this need Strand employed filters on the dimmers originally developed for use in Carnegie Hall The filters attenuate the third fifth and eleventh harmonics of the building power to insure that audible lamp vibration is limited and the lighting is seen and not heard Stage Lighting Control The primary lighting control system for the Hall is a Strand Lighting 500 series console one of the most widely used in the world and particularly popular in downtown Los An geles where 500 series desks are the primary control sys gt gi tem for the entire Los Angeles SE A e a i al Music Centre complex across the street A view of the theatre from Grand Avenue Photo Courtesy Theatre Projects The 500 series console allowed the design team to use a lighting and worklights with custom control panels for ShowNet Ethernet data network to distribute lighting infor each of these tasks mation across a conventional computer network which will
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