Colonial Stadium Vox Lumiere Urban Art
Melbourne's Colonial Stadium has been brought to life with a spectacular computer controlled exterior lighting installation called Vox Lumiere Urban Art.
The design has two basic operating modes - Static lighting of certain architectural features and Kinetic lighting that responds to the crowd noise generated inside the stadium. A touch screen has a built in time clock that is used to either manually switch the lighting on, or pre- program either static or kinetic lighting to operate at specific times and dates.
The Static lighting is comprised of blue coloured uplights lighting the underside of the top seating tiers, along with blue coloured Selecon Pacific Profile Spots that are focussed on the rim of the stadium. White coloured uplights are focussed on to the roof trusses. This static lighting is the 'signature' lighting of the stadium and will operate most nights of the year.
The Kinetic Lighting is comprised of the Static Lighting plus sixteen Clay Paky Stage Zoom 1200's focussed on the side of the stadium. The Stage Zoom's create lighting that changes colour and projected shapes that change in response to crowd noise.
The purpose of the Kinetic lighting is to give a visual indication of what is happening inside the stadium by changing the colour of the lights and changing the speed of the movement. This generally only happens when football matches are played although it could also be used for soccer, rugby or cricket matches as well.
So how does the Kinetic lighting react to the crowd noise? On event nights, the blue rim lights (Selecon Pacific) are on as are the blue uplights in the skylights and the roof truss uplights. If the roof is open, the roof lighting system of Stage Light 300's is also switched on. The Stage Light 300 lights provide a soft swirl of a blue coloured texture and remains constant all night.
The main facade, illuminated by the Clay Paky Stage Zoom 1200's, is where the variation takes place. There are 5 different effects presented.
As the noise subsides, the preset reverts to the lower noise level presets. There are six microphones around the stadium so if the noise is predominantly from one end or side then the presets will only change accordingly. If the noise is a general roar, then all lights will change preset.
As the Stadium empties after the game, the lighting will revert to presets 1 and 2.
The switching on of all these fittings, as well as controlling the variables on the Stage Zooms, is controlled via a PC running Martin LightJockey software. The PC is installed in a rackmount cabinet and is designed to be accessed by Lightmoves personnel only.
An AMX Touchscreen has been interfaced to the PC to provide a user interface point. The screen allows the user to scroll through assorted pages and select various programs that will be set up. It will allow the operator to turn all the lights on for maintenance, and turn lights off at the end of a game. The touchscreen has been set up to make it impossible for the operator to perform functions that would damage the system.
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