Multi-screen digital scenography around an ice show

The entertainment show on 'Art on Ice' relies on the Dataton Watchout multi-screen display system to offer unique images and visual effects.

The entertainment concept of the show Art on Ice, Created about twenty years ago by a figure skater, It is based on offering a unique combination of live music from renowned artists and performances from the elite of world figure skating., with stunning ice dance choreography, acrobatics, Eye-catching lighting and visual effects.

Art on Ice ended last March a tour of four Swiss cities: Zurich, Lausanne, Davos and Basel, attracting more than 81.500 Visitors, who did not want to miss the performances of Scottish singer Emilie Sandé and the Swiss pop/rock band Pegasus, with international skating artists such as Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot, Olympic gold medalists 2018 held in PyeongChang.

To make the digital scenery that is shown around and on the ice rink, The specialist in lighting and audiovisual integration PlanB Solutions Light Design ha optado por el sistema de presentación multipantalla Watchout desarrollado por Dataton (whose system is marketed in the Iberian market Comm-Tec) and whose characteristics can be known from today until next 13 of April in the contest Prolight+Sound, at Messe Frankfurt (hall 4 – B24).

Benjamin Alberts, video operator Art on Ice and scheduled Watchout in PlanB Solutions Light Design, explains that "we use three Watchout servers for synchronized playback on three giant Led screens, with a display area of more than 300 m2, plus eight Full HD projectors that map the ice surface, a Led wall of 90 meters around the track showing the event sponsors and a mesh projection with a 30.000 lumens".

With a duration of two and a half hours, For this show we have more than 600 GB of content created especially for the tour and a new theme is presented every year. The sixteen audio channels for playback, vocals and band are routed with Dante Virtual Soundcard on Watchout", Alberts points out.

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