Pivotal to Keisuke Nishi's design for the evening was a bank of 90 Ayrton IntelliPix-R LED panels supplied by Ayrton's Japanese distributor, First Engineering Japan.
IntelliPix-R is a modular beam projection panel of 25 independently controllable 4.5° LED emitters arranged in a 5 x 5 array which project graphics and media far into the air. Panels can be connected together to form a semi-transparent wall, screen or ceiling or be placed under specially designed glass using its dedicated floor installation kit to create an immensely strong projection floor that can wrap a performer in dynamic columns of light. Ayrton IntelliPix-R is suitable for indoor or outdoor use.
The IntelliPix-R panels were positioned on the stage deck itself, behind the musicians, and angled upward to enable Nishi to show off the full power of IntelliPix-R's projection capacity without pointing directly into the eyes of the audience. Powerful walls of light and spectacular colour shifts were projected upwards to create dramatic aerial beam effects. These contrasted with subtler text and abstract shapes which chased across the surface of the bank of panels, created from IntelliPix-R's individually-controlled pixels which Heart-S mapped using Avolites Media's AI Server. The individual pixels were also used to count down the seconds until New Year 2015.
First Engineering Japan's Masatoshi Hamada says,"Intellipix-R is very quiet without fan noise so it's also good for theatrical plays or opera (Japanese Kabuki) which require a noise free environment."
(Jim Evans)
