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Clay Paky Sharpy ‘orchestra’ lights Fraunhofer award ceremony

More than 60 Clay Paky Sharpys were programmed to create a ‘light orchestra’ which interactively illuminated the Fraunhofer award ceremony. The achievement recently won the LD Björn Hermann the Opus German Stage Award 2016 for innovative stage- and theatre productions, which was presented during the 2016 Prolight + Sound show in Frankfurt. Held at the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden, the theme of the annual event was ‘lighting creates’, echoing UNESCO’s 2015 International Year of Light. The evening was attended by more than 700 people from politics, science and industry.

Together with Onliveline, a bureau for concept and staging, lighting designer Björn Hermann, who has worked on the Fraunhofer award ceremony for seven years, was challenged with creating the light show. “We developed the idea of using fixtures as the actors, rigged on stage as if they were an orchestra,” Hermann explains. “We wrote a storyboard, with the Sharpys playing the leading role, and then spent a year programming the beams and movements of each individual fixture, set to a special, developed sound design.”

To create the ‘orchestra’, Hermann specified 45x Clay Paky Sharpys, rigged centre stage, and a further 16x Sharpys on stage left and stage right. All of the Sharpys were supplied by PRG AG Germany. During the performance, the Sharpys interacted with a large video screen installed on the back wall - when Morse Code was represented with visuals, the Sharpys mirrored the signals with beams; similar effects were generated using the Sharpys’ beams to echo Fraunhofer’s spectral lines (named after the German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer). The Sharpys’ beams also illuminated the architecture of the hall.

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