Well on Tuesday 1st at 10 am the
Re-Rite:Be the Orchestra open to the public, this is the installation
plays 30 camera feeds of the orchestra in sync across 3 floors of a
deserted warehouse on the south bank of the river Thames. I have been
working on this for 3 months and generally it has performed flawlessly
over the last 3 days.
The installation uses 9 Mac Pros
running matrox triplehead2gos to drive 30 screens of 1024x768 content
to a mixture of projectors and plasmas. This includes one Mac Pro
driving 6 screens. There is touch screen control (running flash on PC
using flosc to pass OSC to the mac) to allow the audience to control
the volume of the separate sections of the orchestra, there are touch
screens to allow the user to select different camera angles of the
orchestra. There is even a room that uses a firewire camera and some
clever masking to allow the general public to appear playing with the
horn section.
Anyway this was not a post to
brag although I am very proud of it, but it is to say thank you to
everyone on the forum for there help and patience (I know I have asked
a lot of repeatedly stupid questions) and it certainly it is true to
say that this installation would not have been possible without your
help.
I would also like to say a
specific thank you to the kineme boys as this installation uses a
number of their patches and it has been amazing the extra functionality
and more importantly focus they have brought to Quartz Composer and I
hope this continues even with the changes snow leopard has brought.
The last person I would like to
thank is vade for his customization of the vade v002 movie player that
allows me to mix twelve audio tracks inside of a quicktime, it is very
cool and works very well. (under 10.6 on a G5, still haven't got it
working under 10.6 on my MacBook Pro.
Anyway if anyone is in London
before the 16th come down to the Bargehouse at Oxo Wharf and have a
look at the installation.
Thanks again everyone
Steve Holmes
