Ctrl Fre@k was part of the production team for the Singapore Premiere of Wagner’s epic opera, Das Rheingold.
Location: Concert Hall, Esplanade
Involvement:
Wee – Multimedia System Designer and Programmer
Ctrl Fre@k embarked on a year-long journey with the Time Traveller – an indoor, 60 mins timed experience and Pathfinder – an outdoor, ‘free-to-explore’ installation featuring state-of-the-art audio, visual and lighting (AVL) systems as part of the Singapore Bicentennial Experience (SBE). This flag-ship event marked the 200th anniversary celebration of the founding of Singapore by the East India Company in 1819.
From the beginning, Ctrl Fre@k were appointed as the system designer and technical consultant for realising both the creative design and technical execution of the AVL and Show Control solutions for the entire experience. Understanding the needs of the experience and to execute to the highest level, in terms of both quality and reliability, we had gathered our collective experiences through the years and followed through the whole process from design to implementation. Apart from system design, Ctrl Fre@k also provided lighting design (entire SBE) and sound design (Act 3 and Act 5 of Time Traveller) services.
Ctrl Fre@k worked closely with various AVL equipment suppliers and vendors to ensure effective deployment and accurate installation, from playback sources through networked infrastructure and ultimately, to fixtures and instruments. Ctrl Fre@k then provided the team for system alignment, tuning and calibration. Once all the creative content is loaded, Ctrl Fre@k then took on the immersive audio mixing / programming, video media servers and lighting control programming and ultimately show-control execution and synchronisation of the entire experience.
To ensure the experience ran 13 hours a day for almost 7 months, Ctrl Fre@k also provided a team of technical operations crew that worked in conjunction with an extensive team of ushers and guides. Weekly scheduled maintenance and ad-hoc troubleshooting ensured minimal disruption of the experience that was eventually attended by 700,000 visitors.
Location: Fort Canning Park, Singapore
Involvements:
Jeffrey – Show Control & Sound System Designer, Sound Designer (Act 3 & 5)
Yew Jin – Show Control & Sound Engineer
Wee – Show Control, Lighting & Multimedia System Designer, Show Control & Multimedia Programmer
James Tan & Petrina Tan – Lighting Designer
Vuk – Sound Designer (Act 3 & 5)
Carey Chua: Lighting Programmer
Operation Team – Ed-Linddi, Ian Tan, Royston Lim, Kok Khuen, Elim Lew, Greg, Jean Yap, Ramizah, Wee Boon
Setup Team – Kailash, Taufiq, Darren Lee, Rong Zhao
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Ctrl Fre@k was in Shanghai for the Star Fashion Week. Working once again with Multimedia Designer, Milosh Luczynski, a 270 degrees, 14,640 x 1080 pixels projection canvas was created using Green Hippo V4 media servers for the show.
Location: Shanghai, China
Involvements:
Jeffrey Yue: Multimedia Technical Manager
Wee: Multimedia System Designer and Programmer
Ctrl Fre@k was privileged to be part of the Superstars Of Ballet show, featuring top ballet dancers from the world. Of course, we weren’t dancing but we were on the multimedia team with our Hippo V4 Boreal.
Location: Grand Theatre @ Marina Bay Sands
Involvement:
Wee – Multimedia Programmer and Operator
Ctrl Fre@k provided technical consultancy for the facade mapping show as part of National Gallery Singapore opening festival. A full technical team was formed to manage different technical aspect. Working closely with the Video Projection Director, Milosh Luczynski and his video projection technical director, Stephan Beve, Ctrl Fre@k specified the use of Green Hippo V4 Media Server with Shape to map the contents onto the facade and to playback the high resolution contents. Ctrl Fre@k also specified the sound system to deliver a full coverage for the audiences across and ensuring that the technical requirements from the lighting designer are achieved.
Location: National Gallery Singapore
Involvements:
Jeffrey Yue – Technical Director
Cindy Yeong – Production Manager
Wee – Video System Designer and Programmer
Celestine Wong – Lighting Technical Manager
Marco Curcio – Sound Engineer
Ctrl Fre@k’s Hippo Corner
Ctrl Fre@k continued the adventure with Metropolitan Festival Orchestra with the movie screening of The Two Towers, accompanied by a live orchestra performance.
Location: The Star Performing Arts Centre
Involvements:
Kenny – Production and Technical Manager
Jeffrey – Audio System Designer
Wee – Video System Designer
Rong Zhao & Marco – Audio System Engineer
Carey – Video Operator