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Medialon Manager played a key role
in “True Love Is Yet To Come,” a live multimedia play by
Danish artist Jesper Just at the PERFORMA05 festival in
New York City.
The PERFORMA Commissions program originates new
productions and supports artists in the creation of
exceptional multimedia performances. “True Love Is Yet
To Come” deals with the conflict between rationality and
passion in a reserved man who yearns to liberate his
innermost feelings. Just explored love and its many
forms -- unrequited, mysterious, sentimental, romantic
–-in the large-scale production realized with Danish
production company Vision3.
Life-like and life sized 3D projections of singers,
including members of the Finnish Men’s Screaming Choir,
were projected alongside a live actor, Baard Owe.
In the play, 3D front and rear projections were combined
with lights and prerecorded audio files. To keep the
sync between the video, sound and light components the
sole actor on stage received a click track in his ear.
Medialon Manager was chosen to coordinate video
playback, the click-track cueing system and the audio
files as well as serve as backup for the lighting
console. To accomplish this, the Medialon Manager PC
supplied a DVI optical output playing HD MPEG with
25mbs, a VGA output playing regular MPEG, an audio
channel playing click track, an audio board playing Ac3
files in 7.1 output, a MIDI output to control audio
mixer channels and levels, a DMX output to playback
light cues and a Digitizer used as a user interface to
the technician controlling units and the show
programming in Manager.
Copenhagen-based Hentech was in charge of the Medialon
Manager set up and programming. Henrik Krarup was on
site and responsible for the show’s technical design and
HD video editing.
Krarup already had experience in using Medialon Manager
as a combined show controller and HD video/audio
playback unit, so the choice of Medialon Manager was
easy. “Since we had limited time and equipment transport
possibilities to New York , we decided to extend the use
of Manager by adding a second video playback output and
the 7.1 audio output and extending the power of the PC
so we only had one unit to bring along. It turned out to
be a perfect solution, one we will use in upcoming
shows.” |
