For The Cityfox Experience Halloween Festival at Avant Gardner in Brooklyn, NY in 2019 I was tasked with writing a themed composition and programming synchronized lighting for one room of the festival space.
The result was a 30 minute long composition that looped throughout the 12 hour event. The music itself moves through a series of dark and brooding motifs, intense anxiety driven percussive moments, and ambient atmospheres accompanied by synchronized strobe lights, chandeliers, wash lights, and glowing gowns that surround the room for a total of 14 fixtures.
Both the music and the lighting sequence were written in Image-Line’s FL Studio. The lighting sequence, written in a series of 14-bit MIDI triggers and automation envelopes, is sent in real-time via a loopback into Derivative Touchdesigner where the data is processed and sent out as standard 0-255 DMX values to each of the fixtures. A simple previz system was also built within Touchdesigner to visualize the lighting data during the sequencing process.
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