As part of this year’s Vivid
Sydney light festival, the Australia Museum’s rooftop was once again a big
canvas for a lightshow. As part of the setup, Fusion Entertainment were
responsible to light up the area around the museum – Paul Walton, managing director
of Fusion – collaborated with Show Technology in Australia, and chose ShowPro
HEX 18 LED Pars and ShowPro EX36 LED Floods, both IP rated units.
“It goes through a few colour
fades and variations keeping within a maritime theme,” said Paul. The north side
of the building was completely lit up by EX36 floods: “The reason they wanted
the northern side lit up is that there is a lot of foot traffic from the ferry
terminal.”
It was important to use Wireless
DMX from Wireless Solution in this side of the building, due to safety issues
and constraints in using cables: “That’s why we used some W-DMX™ as we couldn’t
run cable across the main thorough fare. It was just a short link but an
important one for safety”, Paul commented. In total Fusion Entertainment used
two BlackBox F-2 MKII transceivers, which ran two DMX universes from control to
the lighting gear.
Niclas Arvidsson, CEO of Wireless
Solution, commented: “Sometimes we tend to forget the simplest applications.
W-DMX™ is perfect when safety is the most important thing on-site – no more
cable ramps to simply run a few DMX lines. If you have local power where the
fixtures positioned, you can quickly run a Wireless DMX feed directly from
control, in seconds”.
Wireless Solution is distributed
and supported in Australia by Show Technology.
