It contains over 800 rooms, and its central space remains one of Europe's biggest auditoriums with seating to accommodate 6000. Today the space is used primarily for concerts and ballet performances, is home to Kremlin Ballet Theatre, and acts as a second stage for the Bolshoi Theatre.
The main auditorium is encased by towering walls which, during the recent contemporary update led by architects from the studio OTASH, were plated with RGB LED panels creating two vast curvilinear LED screens (25mx60m).
Centrally controlled by an e:cue lighting control system, the new multidimensional environment includes over 472 DMX universes (241,664 DMX channels), making this installation one of the biggest LED control projects worldwide; 236 e:cue Butlers, fully orchestrated by a Media Engine 2 and a Video Control Server (VCS1) capable of playback of multi-layered videos, images, scrolling or static texts, ensure reliable control of this massive project.
Additionally, e:cue's Excite+ was used as a DMX-to-USB interface, allowing necessary integration of a lighting control desk into e:cue's central control system.
(Jim Evans)
