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Details from the MyQuebec2008 website:
It will consist in a sort of animated mosaic that, moving from engravings to paintings and from photos to videos, creates an impressionistic portrait of the city over time. The work will consist of four movements corresponding to the city’s four centuries of history: waterways, the age of exploration and discovery; road building, clearing and developing the land; the railroad and industrial expansion; and finally, the age of air travel and the development of communications.
These 81 silos measure 600 metres long by 30 metres high. Twenty-seven video projectors, 20,000 lumens each, will project millions of pixels onto Bunge’s south and west façades. With 238 spotlights, 203 of which are DEL, and 329 speakers in place, the audience will be able to see the show from several viewpoints: from the Château Frontenac to the Marie-Guyard building, from the ramparts to the Louise Basin piers, Espace 400e and the south shore of the St. Lawrence River.
The soundtrack for this unique sensorial experience was composed by René Lussier and can be heard in different ways depending on the location of the audience. The entire south shore of the Louise Basin will be wired for sound. The public will be able to listen to the original composition in the section adjacent to Rue du Quai St-André from the Pointe-à -Carcy to the west end of the basin.Outside this zone, the public can tune into 88.3 (CKIA-FM) on the radio for a simulcast of the soundtrack.
The free event will run every evening for 40 days beginning June 20.
Thanks to BfloRox for the news. Main image by Lacasse
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comptart_lws
sigh.
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STEEL
Buffalo's biggest problem is not taxes (though that certainly is a problem) Its main problem is that too many look on what IS with a negative attitude rather than what COULD BE.
Buffalo's grain elevators lit up like this as giant urban sculptures COULD BE a major national landmark.
Then again they could be added parking.
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urbanesque
Is this conceptual or real?
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WCPerspective
Real. The first showing is June 20th.
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blove
We've actually had that idea in Buffalo, from David Torke of fixbuffalo. The biggest problem he had was finding the funds to rent or buy a projector large enough. Here's the story: www.buffalorising.com/story/first_ward_film_festival
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allfit
This reminds me of the Pink Floyd laser light show and other light and sound shows in the past. Looking at the silos and not seeing the obvious giant white canvas is like looking at an airplane and not seeing that it is a missile with wings. Most people can't see the obvious until it is pointed out to them.
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