back at the Edison ...

back-lighting setupcontrol stationI was back at the Edison this week to work on lighting for a music video shoot. We broke out the LED PAR38s and 56s, a couple of scanners, the LED fresnels, strobe and the little red/green lasers; also used some of the house's ellipsoidals. Control was through a couple of DMX controllers plus a custom Max patch that I modified on-site as required

(I'm really enjoying having things under Max control; makes for a very versatile and tweakable configuration). An Akai LPD8 gave me some knobs to turn and pads to whack, so I chose to run a lot of the parameters (levels and XY positioning) live instead of programming parameters (which I often do in Ableton Live for these sorts of tempo-driven applications).