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Avolites Tiger Touch II used for V&A Dundee opening ceremony

Dundee’s new V&A museum opened in September 2018 with a light, sound and pyrotechnics-focused ceremony. Lighting was designed by John Rogers who used two Avolites Tiger Touch II consoles. Rogers was commissioned for the project by Jon Pugh of JMP Productions.

The pair employed 30 Robe BMFL WashBeams in weatherproof domes and eight Prolights SunBlast IP rated LED strobes to achieve their design. These were rigged at ground level around the exterior of the V&A, pointed directly at the building’s architecture.

More than 10,000 people gathered at the city’s docks to experience the launch, with thousands more watching it live on the BBC and later on catch-up. The entire show was synced to music composed especially for the occasion, triggered by MIDI from Logic on a laptop.

One of the stand-out moments of the show was the words ‘Hello World’, beamed onto the external slats of the museum in Morse code. But the visual highlight came as each section of the angular structure was washed in markedly different, bright colours.

“What we were aiming for pushed the boundaries of what’s possible using fixtures instead of projection mapping,” says Rogers. “I was backed up by some of Titan’s signature features, including Key Frame Shapes. This made it simpler to create an animation of the BMFL’s shutter blades, for a start, meaning that the Morse code was clear and crisp. It also helped me programme position and rotation; layered, kaleidoscopic colours and trapezoidal shapes.” Off-site, Rogers used his own Titan Mobile to pre-programme, transferring the showfile to the Tiger Touch IIs in the run-up to the event.

(Photos: PK Perspective)

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