ORLANDO
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ORLANDO - New Paradigm Opera
ORLANDO is an opera of a new kind, a performative installation made of seven videos projected on screens fixed on a heptagonal wooden structure.
ORLANDO can be presented indoors or outdoors.
ORLANDO can be shared with audiences in two ways :
- As a audio-video installation without live performance (24/24h if the set device is placed in a dark space or during night time if the set device is placed in a bright space or outdoors)
- As a performative installation (50min) during which a guest-musician or sound artist plays live and performs inside the set device, in immersion together with the audience. Each presentation of ORLANDO is preceded by a short introduction (5min) by Julie Beauvais and followed by a discussion (30 to 60min) between the artists and the audience. Guest-researchers, philosophers, speakers, thinkers, activists are invited to participate to the after-talks related to individual and collective post-binary evolutions.
Downloads
SET DEVICE STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATION PLAN.pdf
WOOD AND CONCRETE PACKING.pdf
SET DEVICE ATTESTATION OF CONFORMITY.pdf
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General Information
Indoors / Outdoors setting
Indoors version
24/24h if the set device is placed in a dark space or during night time if the set device is placed in a bright space.
Outdoors version
Before sunrise or after sunset. The environnement should be as quiet and dark as possible. Prefer locations far from roads, airports, lampposts and other light sources. ORLANDO cannot be installed or performed in conditions of wind or rain.
Space
Plane ground surface, empty space, no chairs, no elevated stage.
Favor dry spaces and shielded from the wind.
Avoid dusty and muddy places.
If the floor is not clean, warm and dry, the organiser is asked to provide carpets or pillows for the audience.
A few chairs can be spread in the space, for disabled members of the audience.
Dimensions
Option 1
Indoors or outdoors
Rear-projection : video projectors are placed around the set device, on the floor
20m x 20m (400m2)
Option 2
Indoors only with grid (possible version, longer set up, less audience capacity)
Front-projection (video projectors hung inside the set device)
Beamers must be hung to a grid, at the center of the set, 2,5m above the ground.
14m x 14m (196m2)
Duration
Performative installation
90 to 120min (including intro and after talk)
Installation
Can be played 24/24h if the environment is dark enough.
Audience capacity
70 people can fit inside the structure. Depending on the size of the venue, a larger audience can walk in and out the structure and sit outside and around the structure.
The audience members are free to change points of view, walk in and around the structure during the installation visit and during the live performance.
Audience members generally sit and lie down on the floor inside and around the structure.
If the floor is not clean, warm and dry, the organiser is asked to provide carpets or pillows for the audience.
Chairs can be spread around the structure only (not inside the structure), for disabled members of the audience.
Security
Set device and material should be secured 24/24h in an indoor or outdoor version.
Transportation and storage
Europe: Size of the disassembled set : 1,10 x 1,15 x 5,75m
Outside Europe: Size of the disassembled set : 1,10 x 2,30 x 3,65 m
Responsibility of the company
ORLANDO travels with 3 members of Cie BadNewsFromTheStars*: 1 artistic director, 1 media artist, 1 architect/set designer. All 3 participate to set up and strike.
The architect/set designer re-designes and re-builds the set device with local wood in a local carpentry workshop, together with local carpenters.
Cie BadNewsFromTheStars* travels from Switzerland with:
Flight case 1:
- 4 video projectors
- Cables
- Commands
Flight case 2:
- 4 video projectors
- Cables
- Ipad
Flight case 3:
- 7 media players
- RJ45 cables
- Yamaha MG10, 10-Channel Mixing Console
Cart:
- 8 screens
Bag:
- Tools and small material to assemble the set device
Extra material only when touring in Europe:
- Wooden set device (only when travelling by truck)
- 7 weights (only when travelling by truck)
Responsibility of the host
The host provides minimum 3 technicians for set up and strike (for a 2 days set up and a 1 day strike) and 1 sound engineer for sound check.
Material provided by the host:
- Secured venue or outdoor space (see the specifications here above)
- Grid for projectors hanging (if the venue is smaller than 20x20m.)
- Clamps and mount ceilings to suspend video projectors (if the venue is smaller than 20x20m.)
- A secured storage space next to the venue for our video and audio material in case of rain (if outdoors)
- 3 to 4 speakers
- Electric sources
- Electric cables and 8 plug adaptors (if necessary)
- 4 ladders
- Tape or cable covers to cover cables on the floor
- 7 weights (concrete ballasts or simple sand bags prepared by the host crew)
- Cushions and chairs for audience members
- Cushion and low table if needed by the guest-musician or sound artist
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Set Device
About the set device
The set device is made of a heptagonal wooden structure (ø :13,5m) within which the audience can enter by 7 doors arranged between the screens.
The 7 screens of 3,85m x 2,6m are made of white PVC. They are fixed on the structure with white ropes.
The structure is ballasted by concrete blocks specifically done and disposed at the 7 access doors. A tight cable on all the upper structure’s perimeter allows to stiffen the whole installation. Beamers and media-players are placed in front of each screen (3,5m away).
If the set device cannot be transported by truck from the previous venue, it has to be rebuild locally.
Pre-set up in carpentry workshop
Rebuilding the elements of the set:
- Pre-assemble time : 10 days, 3 people (depending on the available tools and the know-how)
- Carpentry workshop
- Wood : 600 linear meters, batten 6x3cm
- Hadware : detailed list in the assembly plan
- Concrete ballasts : build minimum 5 shapes for concrete pouring, detail in the assembly plan.
7 ballasts for indoors version (7x33kg)
21 ballasts for outdoors version (21x33kg)
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Set up and Strike
Technical staff
ORLANDO travels with 3 people from BadNewsFromTheStars*. They participate to set up and strike.
The festival provides minimum 3 technicians for set up and strike (for a 2 days set up and a 1 day strike)
Set up in situ
2 days, 6 people
or
1 day, 10 people
Dismantling in situ
1 day, 6 people
or
5 hours, 10 people
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Electricity
Power supply
The organiser provides a power supply 25A monophase 220V distribued as follow :
- 2 plugs 220V/16A for video
- 1 plug 220V/10A for sound installation
Electric distribution
The organiser provides :
- all the electric cables to distribute a point of food to every beamer (6x15m + 2x length to connect VP1 to power source)
- all the electric cables to feed the sound system (1x15m + 3x25m + 2x length to connect VP1 to power source)
- 4 power stripe with 6 connections
- If necessary provide 8 adapters SHUKO (European standard) > local plugs
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Video
About the system
The projection system is self-contained.
The video sequences are projected by a specific GPIO box. Each beamer is connected to a SD card player.
The 7 players are bound between network for the media’s synchronization.
Material travelling with the company
- 8x beamer Optoma EH515ST / 5’000 lumens / throw ration of the projection is 0.79:1 + 4 remote commands + alimentation cable
- 1x spare lamp for Optoma EH515ST
- 7x Brightsign HD223, SD media player + alimentation cables
- 7x SD card 32GB + 7x SD card 64GB
- 1x switch ethernet ZyXel GS1900-8 ports + alimentation cable
- 1x specific GPIO controller
- 8x white PVC screen 3,85m x 2,6m
- White ropes 6mm for hanging screen
- 8x RJ45 cables cat.6A - 4x30m, 1x25m, 2x20m, 1x1m
- 7x HDMI cables 1.50m
- 8x multi plugs EU 220V
Material provided by the host/organizer
- 6x extension electric cables: 6x15m
- 2x length electric cables to connect VP1
- 2 power stripe with 6 connections
- If necessary provide 8 adapters SHUKO (European standard) > local plugs
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Sound
About the sound system
During the installation phase, an Ipad plugged to the mixing table is placed on the floor, in the center of the set device. Sound is diffused.
During the performance phase, a live musician is playing in the center of the set device, in immersion with the audience. He/she uses his/her own instrument and specific material, sometimes plugged to the mixing table.
4 speakers are needed for ORLANDO. They should be provided by the venue/festival. It should be compatible with the mixing table of the company.
The 4 speakers are hung to the wooden structure (see plan).
Material travelling with the company
- 1x Yamaha MG10, 10-Channel Mixing Console : Max 4 Mic / 10 Line Inpots (4 mono + 3 stereo) / 1 Stereo Bus / 1 Aux
- 3x XLR cable 20m
- 2x mini-jack Jack cable 1,5m.
Material provided by the host/organizer
- 4x speakers, 260W
- 4x extension electric cables: 1x15m, 2x20m, 1x25m
- 2x length electric cables to connect VP1
- 2 power stripe with 6 connections
Let's Work Together
Please contact Horace Lundd for any technical question: