All the video requirements of the festival, including system design, production, and VJ programming, are concentrated in the hands of creative services resource company As Described Ltd, run by Adam Seaman and Jim Horsfield. Both men are enthusiastic supporters of the professional video mixers and samplers from Edirol by Roland, and chose the V-8 8-channel mixers as the front-of-house standard mix kit for all the main performance venues, including the principal outdoor stages.
The 2009 Big Chilll proposition draws in visual artists such as D-Fuse, Labmeta, Flicker, Bob Jaroc, Myogenic, Mowgli, Visually Impaired Artists (VIA), VGEMM and Dirty Henry. Jim Horsfield, the Big Chill's VJ Programmer selects and matches up VJs to create the best complementary mixture of on-stage visuals and music for those slots where bands do not bring in their own video content.
Video systems designer Adam Seaman, and his chosen main video contractor Pod Bluman of Bluman Associates, install Edirol V8-based VJ rigs located at all the video mixing positions on the site. These are also linked into a broader production package incorporating live camera mix PPUs supplying the large outdoor screens on the Open-Air Stage and Castle Stage.
In his tenth year as AV Manager for the Big Chill, Adam Seaman comments: "We're seeing much more dedication from the VJs now, who know what they need to do and are really focussed on putting out good visual content.
"Edirol has been very supportive of the Big Chill for many years, initially providing us with their V-4 vision mixers. This year, we've been able to put a larger complement of eight-channel V-8 mixers in place, a very flexible piece of equipment in its workflow and set-up, and very adaptable in terms of our usage and needs. Its footprint is very small so the units don't take up a lot of space on our VJ tables. VJs can turn up, knowing they can plug into multiple channels and mix straight off."
(Jim Evans)
