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Laser
F/X On-line Newsletter - Special Reports
Urström
at the 1999 Stockholm Water Festival
THE
SITE
The task of
replacing a popular fireworks display and entertaining and average of 35,000
people per night is a daunting one. Even more so when the space is outdoors
and flanks a 350 X 300 meter area of water where the audience will be located
all around the site.
The site, in the heart of Stockholm, is flanked by
the Royal Palace on one side, the Parliament building on another, the
historic Opera house on the third with the fourth boundary a long bridge
over the water.
The elements of the show included massive 3D
stereoscopic laser graphics projections in two locations, laser beam
projections from multiple locations, smoke machines for the beam effects,
fire effects from two towers, large scale architectural projections from
Pani projectors, rigging to fly a laser and performer over the water and a
PA system big enough to handle the crowds of up to 40,000 spectators on a
weekend evening!
Aerial view of the site scanned
from a tourist postcard and annotated with system locations
Detailed site diagram showing placement of show systems
KEY
PA
= Speaker stacks and amps for sound
S
= Smoke machine location
S
= Smoke machine location under bridge
R =
Barge mounted restaurants installed for the Water festival
Not shown - Two giant scrims that were flown by wires over the site for
graphics projections and the cables between the Fire tower and the White
Tower used to fly a laser and performer over the water.
Panoramic
Photos
Two large panoramic
photos of the site are available by clicking HERE.
This will launch a new tab or new copy of your browser to view the large
panoramic photos. You can use the
scroll bar at the bottom of your browser to pan the photos. When you have
finished viewing the panoramas, close the tab or copy of your
browser.
Site panorma1 - View from the top of the Fire Tower [265 kb]
Site panorama 2 - View from the Royal Palace [177 kb]
Show
Elements
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Master Control was located in a scaffolding on the
embankment above the water on the Palace site of the site. It contained
the head end for the audio, stereoscopic 3D laser graphics projectors
and remote fiber driven scan heads for beam effects. Time code was sent
from here by XLR cables to the beam projection position on the Opera
side of the site and to the two Pani projector locations. It was the
crew's "home" for the duration of the set-up and show. One of
the two polarisation preserving screens for the 3D laser graphics was
hung from the Royal Palace just across from the master control position.
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The Banks of Pani projector were housed in two elevated
containers with 4 projectors in each container. They projected images
longer then a city block onto the main facade of the Royal Palace.
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The "white Tower" was a steel navigation tower
installed just for the event. It housed a smoke machine and a set of
propane burners and flame thrower on the top for fire effects. It was
also the termination point of the rigging that flew the
"basket" with laser and live performer over the water from the
"Fire Tower". It was initially intended to be the location of
the main beam effect laser system but there was insufficient space to
mount the laser there.
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The facade of the Opera House was nightly covered with a
giant polarisation preserving screen for the 3D laser projections.
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The main beam laser system was located atop a container
on a moored barge that formed part of the structure of a floating
restaurant and VIP lounge on the Opera side of the site.
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The "fire Tower" was a massive scaffolding
that housed one of the four immense speaker stacks for the PA, a
MicroYAG beam effect laser at the bottom of the tower, rigging and
platforms for flying a laser and live performer over the water and was
toped with a set of propane burners and flame thrower for fire effects.
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Not shown in the diagram are two large scrims that fly
on wires; one from the Royal palace to the Opera and the other from the
Fire Tower to the Opera. These were used for 2D image projections during
part of the show.
Quick Links to Report
Pages
Stockholm
Water Festival Report
- Introduction
Sweden
and Stockholm -
Background and general information
The
Site - Orientation
to the show area and the challenges it presented
The
Crew - The people
who put it all together
Tech
Specs - The
equipment used in the presentation
The
Music - An
interview with the composer and MP3 file of the soundtrack
Smoke
on the water -
Covering a lake with smoke for beam effects
The
Show - A
description with many pictures
Animated
Gifs - Gifs
showing Palace projections and climatic beam effects
Stadshuset
- Stockholm City Hall tour (very large page)
Show
Diary - Day-to-day
coverage of the trials and triumphs
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