Aurora Borealis By Ex Machina - The Winter Mill/Le Moulin d'Hiver, Quebec city

http://lacaserne.net/index2.php/other_projects/aurora_borealis/
Ex machina's latest architectural show, hundreds of spots on the Bunge building crating northern lights impressions, still in programming/testing, filmed from my roof
the music is an old "song" i did about ten years ago, a frind of mune was playing the piano in the studio and i tweaked a IIRC leicon ot TC rack delay (may have been a prime time)

if I recall the papers a few months back, this show should go on all winter (and I hope all year round) at dusk untill like 11PM or something like that)

here is the official statement:
English version coming soon.

Aurora Borealis est un éclairage permanent qui sinspire des véritables couleurs des aurores boréales. Robert Lepage et Ex Machina exploitent à nouveau les lignes de force de limposante structure architecturale quest la Bunge en illuminant ses silos à grains tous les soirs, de la tombée du jour jusquà 23h30, pour les cinq années à venir.

« Aurora Borealis est une œuvre contemplative qui se veut une impression artistique de la grandeur et de la beauté de la nature. Il ne sagit pas dun spectacle ou dune projection vidéo mais bien de mouvements de lumière sur un bâtiment, mouvements inspirés des aurores boréales. » - Robert Lepage.

Loeuvre est aussi la rencontre de deux créateurs, Robert Lepage et Martin Gagnon, collaborateurs de longue date notamment sur Le Moulin à imagesMC, ZuluTime et Elseneur.

Pour réaliser cette intervention dans lespace publique, les concepteurs ont eu recours à des technologies vertes nécessitant très peu dentretien ; tous les appareils déclairage utilisés sont de type DEL (diode électroluminescente), technologie reconnue pour sa faible consommation énergétique, sa longévité et sa fiabilité.

Aurora Borealis technical card Description
• Permanent architectural lighting inspired by aurora borealis.




• Daily from dusk until 11:30 PM.

• Fully automated lighting.

• Creation and production team of 53 people. Architectural structure
• Bunge - Canada grain elevators in the Old Port of Quebec.

• Building Size - Width: 600 meters - Height: 30 meters. Equipment
• 574 lighting fixtures using LED technology (Light Emitting Diode).




• 1000 white light sources (stars) with LED 21 W each.

• All lighting type IP65 units are adapted for the worst possible weather conditions.

• 2 lighting boards operating in redundancy.

• 1.4 kilometers of fiber optic cables, 6 km of DMX cables and 4 km of power cables.




• 160 aluminum supports fused to the waterproof membrane of the roof of the Bunge silos.




Energy Consumption
• The energy consumption of Aurora Borealis is in the order of 105 kilowatts, for a grand total of 2 881 672 lumens (574 fixtures and 1000
stars LED lit at full power).

• If we use traditional technology, 1 647 incandescent bulbs of 100 W each (domestic models) would be required to achieve the same level of
brightness than with the LED lighting. These incandescent bulbs would generate a total of 165 kW. With the LED technology, we cut our energy
consumption by 57%.

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[Treps]

Superbe !

[muzik4machines]

merci :)

[muzik4machines]

never had that many honnors for so little views (200)

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[muzik4machines]

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[CaseMarco]

I really like the song... actually love it.

[muzik4machines]

thank you, it's a pretty old piece, a frined played the grand piano, i tweaked the delay and later edited the whole shebang into a "track"

[ledzepinfringer]

nice song, pretty impressive lightning project kudos to them

[muzik4machines]

oups, wrong account, still thank you and yes, Lepage works are always impressive

[muzik4machines]

oups logged in the wrong account, thanks a lot

[chrominancezero]

the HD looks pretty nice for a night shot on a still camera

[chrominancezero]

lache moi un call tu viendra les voir sur mon toit