BrightSign players drive Eden Project's Anthem
UK - Exploring the impact that humans have on the global environment is a key theme of the Eden Project, 'global garden' located in a former china clay pit in Cornwall. Fittingly, that theme was also the centrepiece of Beth Derbyshire's multimedia presentation Anthem, performed at Eden this autumn, with BrightSign HD1010 media players, supplied by UK distributor Pixels UK, driving the visual element.

Presented as a joint venture between Eden Project, Derbyshire and Cape Farewell - an organisation devoted to highlighting climate change through culture - Anthem combined a trilogy of films shot by Derbyshire in the Arctic, Newfoundland and the UK, with a live choral performance of music composed by Ulrike Haage.

Dunstable-based Pixels supplied a complete media playback system for the project, comprising three HD1010 compact media players, which were synchronised to show the film elements of Anthem on three large screens in the Eden Project's Mediterranean biome.

Working very closely with Derbyshire, Pixels UK's technical team wrote programme scripts which allowed the BrightSign players to drive the installation's projectors from a single button press to start the presentation. The processing power and flexibility of the HD1010s meant that there was no need for a separate show controller, all control and synchronisation being done via the players' GPIO and network ports.

"We believe that this was the first time synchronised BrightSign HD media players have been used in a live performance," says Pixels UK managing director Norman Garland.

"We put a lot of work into perfecting a reliable, simply operated system for a live performance environment and we were very pleased with the result. The system worked absolutely flawlessly throughout the run of Anthem in what is an ideal environment for plants, but not necessary for technology."

"The most important thing when making video work is the quality of the output," explains Derbyshire. "I went straight to Pixels UK as they are widely regarded as an industry expert. Pixels advised me on a cost effective but quality range of players, the Bright Sign HD media players. They were beyond helpful in testing the equipment, offering essential advice on how to make the media look excellent and bent over backwards to help me.

"The media players have performed faultlessly and the media looks fantastic for the month-long exhibition in a tough environment, even at very large scale. I could not have achieved the end result without all the advice and help from Pixels. So thank you Pixels."

(Jim Evans)


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