VENUE 089
LIVERPOOL WATERFRONT
A COLLECTION OF PROJECTION AND LIGHTING SPECIALISTS WERE PRESCRIBED TO HELP MARK SOME PRESTIGIOUS DATES ON THE LIVERPOOL CALENDAR EARLIER THIS YEAR. THE RESULT WAS A SERIES OF AWE-INSPIRING, CUTTING EDGE VISUALS WHICH WILL LIVE LONG IN THE MEMORY.
LIVERPOOL, UK EUROPE/MIDDLE EAST/AFRICA
To help celebrate the 100th anniversary of Liverpool’s iconic Liver Building and simultaneously mark the opening of the new Museum of Liverpool, a team of experts were appointed to cover the two buildings, plus the Cunard and Port of Liverpool buildings, in graphical wonder and suffusions of light. The conglomerate included the Czech consortium Tomato Prouction, technical partners AV MEDIA, creative company Macula, and event lighting specialists dbn Lighting. Sound was supplied by UK company Adlib Audio. dbn’s team was led by Pete Robinson, whose brief included the lighting of a live performance stage on the Pier Head and providing complementary lighting onto the Liver Building itself, which framed a spectacular large format projection show created by Czech AV specialists Macula, using 35k lumen Christie projectors. “We didn’t meet with Macula until we all arrived on site,” revealed Pete. “There are four main buildings on the Waterfront: The Liver Building which had a combination of lighting and projection, The Cunard and Port of Liverpool Buildings which were lit with lighting only and the new Museum of Liverpool which was only projected on. So the only building where we had to interact as it were was the Liver Building. Macula supplied us with a plot of their projection and specified which areas they would like to be lit to enhance their work. We then designed a system to ‘fill in the gaps’. All programming was done on site over two nights of technical rehearsals so that the lighting complemented the projection.” On the Liver Building, dbn had to ensure that light filled the space between the outer limits of the centrally positioned projections and the edges of the building, in the process, highlighting its full
architectural features and extending the visual viewing surface to cover the entire front fascia. This was achieved using four Studio Due CityColor wash fixtures, six i-Pix BB4 LED wash lights and four Clay Paky Alpha Wash TH moving heads, all strategically positioned on the ground at the foot of the building. These were augmented with four Clay Paky Alpha Beam 700’s stationed on top of the FOH control tower, about 150 metres away and specifically focused to catch the top of the Liver Building. Robinson explained that their previous experience of lighting the Liver Building for the ‘transition’ event at the end of Liverpool’s Capital of Culture Year in 2008 definitely helped with creating a lighting scheme for this event. However, they took a completely different approach both times due to the unique and individual nature of the projects. Macula’s task was focused on producing a show for the Liver Building and one mapping for the Museum of Liverpool. When the tender was issued by City of Liverpool’s cultural department Macula bid successfully after the organisers had witnessed the consortium’s stupendous video projection for Prague’s 600th Anniversary show, projected onto the city’s Astronomical Clock. Pixel mapping is Macula’s specialty. For its first UK project, the Czech company used a selection of high-powered Christie projectors to beam geometry-aligned images onto the two buildings. Liverpool’s new museum offered a projection surface somewhere in the region of 90 metres across and 20 metres high, which represented a pixel resolution of 5,760 by 1,080. Because of its
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