coolux Appears with the Erlich Brothers

Master Illusionists the Ehrlich Bothers entertained an audience of 10,000 on Friday, July 13 at the TUI Arena in Hannover, Germany.

During the two-and-a-half hour long show, the audience was presented with an extremely varied of illusions. Boiling water was turned into ice, railroad tracks were bent with bare hands, and camels spoke.

The secrecy surrounding the details of a modern magicians' performance makes it impossible to describe certain aspects of this production in great detail; however, it can be revealed that coolux Pandoras Box products played a vital role during the execution of many of the Ehrlich Brothers' tricks.

The coolux Widget Designer software in particular made it possible to set up and control a great number of effects via a touch screen interface.

The complete video-LED equipment in use was controlled via Pandoras Box software. An MA Lighting grandMA2 console was connected via a network for changing colour and opacity, depending on the requirements of Manfred "Ollie" Olma, the lighting designer.

The coolux Widget Designer, in combination with other Pandoras Box software systems, controlled a total of 41 DMX universes. Other than being part of certain trick and kinetic setups, the Pandoras Box software was also used for different aspects of lighting control and was thus able to support the grandMA.

A convenient technical feature of the Ehrlich Brothers' media setup was the automated live-input video editing, which was made possible through the use of an HD-SDI input card.

A coolux Sensor Link was vital for the reception and sending of kinetic movement data, as well as the spontaneous interaction with the artists on stage were.

All in all a total of eight computers with individually programmed Widget Designer projects were involved.