Ring Cycle Metropolitan Opera New York City
The Ask.
Ex Machina and The Metropolitan Opera Of New York City set out to create the most intricate sceneery mapping and complex interactivity ever seen in opera. They asked for all interactivity, automated projector alignments, video mapping servers be controlled and programmed completely offline using Grand MA Lighting Desks. Where as systems came online we would verify and re-program.
What I did.
All interactive media server programming, automated alignment controls programming.
How I did it.
I built custom fixture personalities in the Grand MA Software to control and be flexible enough to add parameters or remove parameters as the creative changed. All interactive effect and parameters were tracked using custom macros in the Grand MA Software to reload the desks screens, stage interactivity, identify active interactive parameters and interact with custom effects that ranged from fire to fog.
What I used to do it.
Grand MA Lighting Desks along with local using operator support so I could program and update cues while a local union operator ran the show. This proved to be a very effective way to build shows as the Operator runs the desk from day one leaving no confusion when I turn the show over to the Opera.
