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New exclusive Soho members club, Kabaret’s Prophecy, will unveil a unique visual interior — a first in avant-garde visual art, set within the monochromatic space conceived by the venue’s renowned design and brand consultant, David Collins. With 'maximalism' as a theme, Collins is creating an experience to stimulate all the senses in the 100-capacity subterranean club in Beak Street.
The central feature is a vast, sculptured, moving image backdrop — the first of its kind in the world – constructed from modular intelligent LED pixel blocks. Upon this, graphics and animations triggered from a real time generator or MIDI keyboard will be superimposed to create an ever-changing mood tableau.
Two of the four linear walls at Kabaret’s Prophecy will be clad in Barco‘s MiPIX system, which can display intelligent lighting effects, 3D logos or graphics, and even full video content. These moving images will also curve around the contours of the walls and wrap themselves into the alcoves.
Each MiPIX measures 4cm x 4cm, and almost 3,000 will be deployed in the construction of two vast canvasses, measuring 17.2m wide by 1.2m high.
The moving architecture was developed after David Collins enlisted Chris Levine, an acclaimed light artist, whose past projects include design and direction of laser elements on Massive Attack’s 2003 100th Window tour. This same tour saw the introduction of groundbreaking video techniques by Creative Technology — early adopters of MiPIX blocks — and pioneering environmental graphics engineers and live performance video specialists, United Visual Artists (UVA).
So Levine introduced the two companies to the Kabaret’s Prophecy creative team: UVA will provide all playback, software, programming and operational personnel, while Creative Technology are responsible for the design and integration of the MiPIX wall.
Between them they will use advanced pixel-mapping technologies, combined with UVA’s graphics processing, to implement David Collins’ desire for an avant-garde, constantly-changing environment. They will address the LED sculptured walls with purpose-created graphic sequences — pixel perfect, live, in real time, and on a nightly basis.
A video editing station will be set up next to the DJ booth, where the VJ will be positioned five nights a week. Mounted in a 19in rack will be a Pentium 4 PC, fitted with dual head graphics card, allowing control to be implemented either via the computer keyboard or MIDI Keyboard Controller, plugged into the computer. This will enable UVA to store various attributes onto a specific time frame, designed to correspond with the venue’s trading patterns.
15th June 2004
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