Hippotizer powers visuals for Cyber-Gen ShockWave Tour

Hippotizer powers visuals for Cyber-Gen ShockWave Tour posted: 29/04/2020

Emanuel J rgner used Hippotizer Boreal Media Servers to drive the visuals for the Cyber-Gen ShockWave Tour.

Hippotizer Media Servers were recently chosen to drive the visuals for the Cyber-Gen ShockWave Tour. Featuring a line-up of Deutsch-rap and R&B artists signed to the Cyber-Gen music label, including YouTube stars TJ Beastboy, Young Mokuba, Wavvyboi and others, the tour played dates in Germany, Austria and Switzerland - and sold out in under 28 hours.

Lighting designer Otto Schildknecht asked Emanuel J rgner to programme and operate the show's video and lighting elements. Because we needed a high performance server, which would ensure all the live notch FX ran smoothly, we chose the Boreal , says J rgner. The other good reason for choosing the Boreal was the fact that we could deform the content with the FX library.

The display setup consisted of a 8m x 2.3m, 16mm pixel pitch LED wall positioned upstage, with alternative configurations for shows in the smaller venues on the tour. Besides the LED wall, we integrated eight Astera AX-1 PixelTubes on each side of the screen, explains J rgner. In special parts of the show we used the Hippotizer's PixelMapper to map the video content to the PixelTubes.

J rgner merged ArtNet data from both the Boreal unit and the lighting console to control the PixelTubes, providing a wide range of effects possibilities.

Emanuel J rgner used Hippotizer Boreal Media Servers to drive the visuals for the Cyber-Gen ShockWave Tour.

In addition, the stage set featured custom-made cubes of 4mm pixel pitch LED panels. Each visible surface was mapped with a variety of video content and effects, while content was also fed to the top sides of the cubes for a complementary uplight effect. The PixelMapper was perfect for the LED cubes' surfaces, says J rgner. This gave us the ability to handle each surface like a simple LED-PAR.

The visual content consisted of a mix of music videos and individual clips provided by the artists. They gave me the freedom to play around with the clips so that I could add some unique effects to them, says J rgner.

Both video and lighting were mostly triggered by SMPTE timecode. However, the Media Servers were connected separately from the lighting console, which J rgner says was useful in enabling the flexibility required for such a video and light show, with both synchronous and independent elements.

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