Yde Girl died between 54 BC and 128 AD at an approximate age of 16 years and her body was remarkably well preserved in the peat bogs near Yde in the Netherlands. Drents Museum's new Yde Girl drama is an interactive exhibit with sound, lights & projections used to illustrate the story of this girls life all those years ago. The museum needed the installation to run automatically and be low maintenance and energy efficient. The Project Manager from Lichtpunt, Bob van der Klaauw, saw the perfect solution for these demands in the CueCore, solid-state controller from Visual Productions.
With the entire system being show-controlled by AMX this is in turn connected to a KissBox and onto the two CueCores which were used to control 435 LEDs and eight generic fixtures from Acclaim Lighting. The CueCore is triggered by DMX in sync with the audio and video. The exhibition's striking video footage was filmed and directed by Marcel Hectors.
Sander Bloem was the Lichtpunt technician responsible for the installation. Bloem speaks highly of the CueCore stating that "I am very excited by the CueCore, it is very good, here I used it for creating Cues and recording." During Programming Bloem further enthused, "I am enjoying everything about the CueCore! It is easy to work with, I programmed everything in my GrandMA console and capturing the scenes and recording with the CueCore was very easy....and I can link anything I want to everything so that is very nice."
Alongside this exhibit the Drents Museum has undergone further renovation with another CueCore controlling eight generic fixtures and four RGBWA fixtures. This CueCore is controlled by an iPad through OSC and fourpresets running via the GPI off an AMX system.
(Jim Evans)
