Miles, who first previewed the EC-20 video panels at the PLASA exhibition in September, was looking for "a lightweight, fairly high resolution, modular LED system that I could use on Leftfield and on some other shows. David Stewart at Martin gave me a demo and I really liked how it looked. I was also very impressed by the P3-100 video processor."
Following a series of successful summer festival performances, Leftfield played a number of dates in the UK and Ireland in November and December. Miles was brought in by lighting designer Jamie Thompson, primarily to oversee the video playback system and content. After figuring his video needs, he contacted video services company Picture Works of London, who provided the EC-20 panels for the tour.
"Over the summer festival tour we had a different screen each show so I designed a system that was quite versatile, reconfiguring the content for different screen configurations and resolutions," says Miles.
The design for the UK tour featured three EC-20 screens, or strips, each screen five panels by five panels. A centre screen was flanked by a screen on each side with a one panel gap between screens.
All media content across the panels was driven through Martin's P3-100 System Controller, an advanced video signal processor with the ability to micro-align the LED display while treating the screens like lighting instruments through direct DMX control of brightness, colour, pixelmapping and more.
(Jim Evans)
