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When Cando, a video, lighting,
sound and multimedia company in Wauthier-Braine, Belgium,
needs to say “can do,” they often turn to Medialon to
deliver on their promise. For a recent elaborate
installation in the Grand Place de Bruxelles, the
company used Medialon to control eight different
interactive programs.
Every year for four weeks in December, the Grand Place
de Bruxelles, one of the most beautiful town squares in
Europe , has been a living painting. The exhibit is part
of the Plaisir d’Hiver illumination celebrations
organized by city of Brussels. From 4 PM to 1 AM each
evening, the Grande Place lights up with a number of
unique and interactive lighting designs. Fixtures are
set up all over the square illuminating streets,
monuments, the traditional Christmas market, and the ice
rink as well as creating a “living painting” of light on
the Grand Place itself.
In the middle of The Place is where the interactive
controls are located. A circular, rotating platform
welcomes the audience, giving them a 360° view of the
entire locale. Numerous large push buttons allow
audience members to trigger eight different sound and
light scenarios, which include lighting and manipulating
lights on the 22 meter Christmas tree, changing the
colors of many of the buildings, controlling
snowflake-and spiral gobos projected onto the town hall,
and initiating two different laser/disco ball effects.
Brussels-based Magic Monkey, who specializes in
interactive, large-scale communications, was chosen for
the design of the extravaganza and worked with Cando to
oversee the installation. “The challenge was to send the
signal from the nine push buttons to the different
controlled devices, which could be as far as 150 meters
away,” comments Cando’s Philippe De Winter.
To synchronize and monitor all the elements, Cando chose
Medialon technology. Medialon Manager software was used
to control the Christmas tree rotations, music, lights,
equipment power supply, and the rendering of lighting
sequences for the MAC, City, PROV-LED fixtures.
“I
decided to use Medialon for this show in order to get
the best return of produced effects. Having required
start up and shut down times (by order of the police
force for general safety) and wishing to obtain
frequency statistics for the entire show, the choice to
use Medialon was an easy one. We had no problems during
the month-long process. Thanks to Medialon technology,
any one visiting the Grande Place was able to make their
own show,” concluded De Winter. |
