“You can anticipate some big changes in this year’s Lumenocity, Wednesday-Sunday in Washington Park, Over-the-Rhine,” writes Janelle Gelfand in Friday’s (7/31) Cincinnati Enquirer (Ohio). “When the sun goes down, a unique visual story will accompany each of five pieces of music led by music director Louis Langrée in a 40-minute show … using a technique called 3-D projection image mapping [to] beam 320,000 lumens of light across Washington Park’s lawn and onto the front of Music Hall…. For the first time, the designers will be using motion tracking technology. The cutting-edge technology captures movement and creates animation from it, said Dan Reynolds, a creative director and owner-partner with Steve McGowan of Brave Berlin, the firm that is designing the visuals. ‘We track the movements of the musicians and also Louis as he conducts. We’ll use their movement to create motion graphics that complement the show,’ Reynolds said. For weeks, they have been filming Cincinnati Symphony musicians performing on their instruments…. The animations of the players will be sprinkled throughout Berlioz’s ‘Dream of Witches’ Sabbath’ from Symphonie fantastique. Maestro Langrée was filmed using the same technology for his closeup—conducting 15 feet up in the air, and 40 feet tall.”
Posted August 3, 2015
