Our light display runs nightly from 5pm – 11pm. That leaves 18 hours of dead air on my local radio station. Now, to be sure, my “radio station” doesn’t broadcast much beyond my own block. Nonetheless, I don’t like the idea of dead air. It’s a radio station, so why not broadcast music during the…
The schedule was determined back in July. Dates were set. People were notified. And the stage was set. Today, we officially kicked off the 2011 Light Show with the first lights and decorations going up. The goal was to get the elevated items mounted in their respective spots. To do this, I required the help…
This post is a follow-on to Part 1. Be sure to read through it first. The software makes your job easier, but it’s still your job as the sequence author to make things happen. You’re working with a varying set of possible effects, channels that map to your lights, and a timeline. The LOR show building…
This year, I needed to upgrade the display infrastructure. A number of items in the display are getting refreshed for this season. One item on the to-do list can be scratched off: new window frames for lights. There’s a bit of history leading up to these frames.
Putting on a good holiday light show takes a lot of different pieces working in harmony, and the most important one is music/light synchronization. Using the components that make up the show, this is referred to as “sequencing”. Without sequencing, lights and music cannot work together. Sequencing is the process of affecting lights in coordinated…