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Live Event Visual Amplification
Introduction
Live Event Visual Amplification is the display of live and pre-recorded images as a part of a live stage event.
Visual amplification began when films, projected onto a stage, added characters or background information to a production. 35mm motion picture projectors became available in 1910 - but which theatre or opera company first used a movie in a stage production is not known.
In 1935 less costly 16mm film equipment allowed many other performance groups and school theaters to use motion pictures in productions.
In 1970 closed circuit Video cameras and recorders became available and Live Event Visual Amplification came of age. For the first time live closeups of stage performers could be displayed in real time. These systems also made it possible to show pre-recorded videos that added information & visual intensity to a live event.
One of the first video touring systems was created by TJ McHose in 1975 for the Rock and Roll band The Tubes using black and white TV monitors.
Touring B&W TV video system The Tubes 1975
Touring color system Kool Jazz Festival 1978
In 1978 TJ McHose designed a touring color video system that enlarged performers at the Kool Jazz Festivals in sports stadiums across the USA.
Timeline
1910: 35mm film projector
1935: 16mm Kodachrome film projectors
1965: Sony Portapak 1/2" video tape system released
1967: Joshua Light Show
1967: Film Projector -motion picture effects
Joffrey Ballet -Astarte
1968: Ant Farm Founded in San Francisco
1969: "TV Bra for Living Sculpture" Nam June Paik - Charlotte Moorman (2 TVs B&W)
1969: Video Free America Founded in San Francisco by Art Ginsberg & Skip Sweeney
1970: VFA -"The Continuing Story of Carol & Ferd" B&W Reality TV show display performance
(1/2" video tapes switched live to 12 TVs B&W) Skip Sweeney Video Performer
1971: VFA -"All the Video You can Eat" display performance 12 TV monitor 4 input
(1/2" video tapes switched live to 12 TVs B&W) Skip Sweeney Video Performer
1971: The Kitchen Founded in New York city by video artists Steina and Woody Vasulka
1975: "Media Burn" Ant Farm (Car crashes through wall of TVs)
1975: The Tubes - Live concert 6/1/75 Winterland San Francisco
(2 B&W TV 1 cam 1/2 " video tape) T.J. McHose Video artist
1975: The Tubes - Boarding House SF (1 TV B&W) "Leroy's Wedding"
video recording of priest marries couple during stage show T.J. McHose Video artist
1975: The Tubes - Bimbo's (4 TV B&W) T.J. McHose Video artist
1975: Kool Jazz Festival -music concerts in sports stadiums
successfully attracts young African-American male audiences
1976: Tubes Talent Hunt Boarding House San Francisco
1978: Kool Jazz Festival video reinforcement at sports stadiuontent and use LED
Video control center Kool Jazz Festival 1978
Orbec color video touring display system T.J. McHose Video designer
(3 live TV cameras on 4 CRT TV projectors Color) Mick Anger director
1980: Record Factory In store video display (TJ McHose)
1981: MTV begins cable broadcasting
1982: The Who Farewell Tour Eidophor Video Projector on 22' x 30' screen
Nocturne Productions Video Truck - Paul Becher Director
Nocturne builds the first 2 "Broadcast" quality portable touring systems with Hitachi cameras (SK-91), Grass Valley 1600 switchers, and the GE "Talaria" projector, an idiosyncratic device which requires an operator with a wizard's license to keep it running.
1982: Nocturne systems go on the road with Journey (Becher Dir.) and The Police, (Mick Anger Dir.) using a single screen over the stage center.
1983: David Bowie (Mick Anger Dir.) uses Nocturne video for the stadium dates on his "Serious Moonlight" tour.
This tour was the first time a "Diamond Vision" type (LED) screen is used on a scaffold behind and above the stage for some shows, and eidophor elsewhere.
1984: Tasco builds a video system and begins to compete for the touring business with Nocturne
A TimeLine of Film and Video inventions is available at howOLDisit.com
By 2000 many bands tour with LED as well as DLP projection and LED video walls
Live Event Visual Reinforcement
Introduction
Live Event Visual Reinforcement is the addition of projected lighting effects and images onto any type of performance venue.
Visual Reinforcement began more than 2000 years ago In China during the Han Dynasty Shadow puppetry was invented to "bring back to life" Emperor Wu's favorite concubine. Mongolian troops spread Shadow play throughout Asia and the Middle East in the 13th century. Shadow puppetry reached Taiwan in 1650, and missionaries brought it to France in 1767.
The next major advance in Visual reinforcement for events was the Magic lantern, first conceptualized by Giovanni Battista della Porta in his 1558 work Magiae naturalis. The Magic Lantern became practical by 1750 with the oil lamp and glass lenses. Special effect animation attachments were added in the 1830ies. In 1854 the Ambrotype positive photographic process on glass made Magic lantern slide creation much less expensive.
Magic lanterns were greatly improved by the application of Limelight to live stage production in 1837 at Covent Garden Theatre and improved again when electric arc lighting became available in 1880.
In 1910 Adolf Linnebach invented the Linnebach lantern a lensless wide angle glass slide projector.
In 1933 the Gobo metal shadow pattern for the ellipsoidal spotlight allowed images to appear and disappear by dimmer control.
In 1935 16mm Kodachrome film projectors added the first fully animated Visual reinforcement to Live Events.
Timeline
1600: Shadow play leather or paper puppets cast shadows on a translucent screen
1760: magic lantern painted slide projector Phantasmagoria ghost effects projector
Magic Lantern image projector
1905: Linnebach lantern Munich Opera
1933: Gobo metal shadow mask adds patterns to ellipsoidal spotlights
1940: Overhead projector Later used for psychedelic light shows
1950: Slide projector 35mm Kodak Carousel
1965: Thomas Wilfred describes A highly detailed system to create event scenery using rear projections
1967: Liquid Projector psychedelic Liquid light shows
Joshua Light Shows at The Fillmore for The Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company and many other Summer of Love bands
Roy Seburn (one of Ken Kesey's Pranksters) who introduced this new artform to the younger bohemians through the Acid Tests. He had probably attended one of the Beat Generation lightshows (I don't think they called them lightshows at that point, maybe liquid art shows), thought it was a groove and figured out how to duplicate it. This type of lighting technique is known as liquid projection. A clear container (usually a glass clock face crystal) is placed on the overhead projector and a liquid consisting of water and colored oil is placed in the container. The container is rocked in time to whatever music happens to be playing.
Lighting and special effects support
Audio support
Live event sound reinforcement
Introduction
A sound reinforcement system was first developed for movie theatres in 1927 when The Jazz Singer was released. Movie theatre sound was greatly improved in 1937 when the Shearer Horn system debuted. One of the first large-scale outdoor public address systems was at 1939 New York World's Fair.
In the 1960s, rock and roll concerts promoted by Bill Graham at The Fillmore created a need for quickly changeable sound systems. In the early 1970s Graham founded FM Productions to provide touring sound and light systems. By 1976 in San Francisco the technical debate over infinite baffle vs horn-loaded enclosures, and line arrays vs distributed driver arrays, was ongoing at FM because of the proximity of The Grateful Dead and their scene Ultrasound, John Meyer, and others). But at that time there were parallel developments in other parts of the USA - Showco (Dallas) and Clair Bros (Philadelphia) had different approaches; Clair in particular was moving in the direction of modular full-range enclosures. They would rig as many as needed (or clients like Bruce Springsteen could afford) in whatever configuration they thought would cover a particular venue. Stanal Sound in southern California used fiberglass futuristic looking equipment for artists like Kenny Rogers.
A number of long-time sound professionals[who?] feel that live concert sound quality has not greatly improved since 1978 despite all the digital, wireless, fiber optic, and computer advancements that have made it much easier to tune to a specific venue and assemble and maintain a touring system.
Timeline
1876: Loudspeaker Alexander Graham Bell
1878: Carbon microphone / amplifier
1924: Loudspeaker - moving-coil -patent Chester W. Rice & E. Kellogg
1924: Loudspeaker - ribbon Walter H. Schottky
1930: Vacuum tube amplifier
1937: Loudspeaker - Shearer Horn movie theatre system
1939: public address outdoor system 1939 New York World's Fair
1945: Loudspeaker - coaxial Altec "Voice of the Theatre"
1953: Loudspeaker - electrostatic -patent Arthur Janszen
Touring sound reinforcement system
1953: Microphone - wireless
1965: Loudspeaker - woofer
1965: Loudspeaker - subwoofer
1970: Microphone - condenser
1974: Loudspeaker - Sensurround movie sound system for "Earthquake"
1974: Loudspeaker - Dolby Stereo 70 mm Six Track
1975: Loudspeaker - touring - McCune JM-3 John Meyer
1979: Loudspeaker - Meyer Sound Laboratories - Grateful Dead wall of sound
1983: Loudspeaker - THX movie sound system for Star Wars
Staging support
Transportation support
Efficient and timely transportation is essential for live event productions.
Live Event equipment packaging
Touring Packaging
Well designed touring systems
Touring video system schematic
: unload from the truck gently, roll easily into their stage location, connect to each other quickly. A well designed system includes duplicates of critical components and "field-replaceable" items such as cables, switches, and fuses. Every component should be protected by a well padded road case that has room for all connector cables and allows easy access to the components for fast cable re-patching to bypass a bad component and for repairs during a tour. The road cases need good ventilation and for outdoor use should be white to minimize solar heat buildup. Road case sizes should be modular to pack tightly together on the truck.
Packaging Images
Touring cases schematic for Video display system Kool Jazz Festival 1978
Color video projector in road case -Kool Jazz Festival
See also
Rock festival
Rock concert
Stagecraft
Theatres
Stadiums
Audio electronics
Sound technology
Live sound mixing
Liquid light shows
VJ (video performance artist)
References
^ Burris-Meyer and Cole (1938). Scenery For The Theatre.Little, Brown and company pp 246-7 Projected Scenery Effects
^ Wilfred, Thomas (1965) Projected Scenery: A Technical Manual
^ There is no way to prove that concert sound hasn't improved much since the 1970s because only the "memories" of audience members "recorded" the event.
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