The Cathedral of Seville turns its main altar into a canvas of light and sound

The audiovisual show 'The Gospel of Wood', under the artistic direction of Florencio Ortiz, transforms the main altarpiece of the Seville Cathedral on a canvas of light, history and emotion with the latest technology provided by SeaSound.

Stage technology and artistic sensitivity are combined in the audiovisual show The gospel of wood, a unique experience that transforms the main altar of the Seville Cathedral to show a rspiritual elate of light and sound of the greatest altarpiece in Christianity.

Under the artistic direction of Florencio Ortiz Bernal, this great altarpiece, of 26 meters high and 18 wide and 400 m² of surface area, comes to life for thirty minutes thanks to a poetic lighting design, a immersive sound narrative and projections revealing details hidden from view.

Technology at the service of heritage

This project, technically executed by the company Audiovisual Projects Division, directed by Pedro Munoz, has cutting-edge technological solutions supplied by SeaSound, who has accompanied this process from the beginning.

Key staging equipment includes four units ERA 800 Performance of Martin Lighting, that illuminate the sacred architecture with theatrical precision; a server Pixera One Dual PX1-2-G2 and another Dante Virtual Soundcard PXO-AD of Audinate, that manage video and audio with a seamless synchronization, along with a CueCore3 controller of Visual Productions.

Light programming is carried out with a system of MA Lighting, which provides creative flexibility to Ortiz's design, in which lighting not only accompanies, but interprets the work.

From SeeSound, the specialists Adrian del Pino (lighting product manager, video and rigging) y Juan Antonio Ramos (commercial technician for Western Andalusia) have been present in this project, supporting the technical integration with the artistic needs of the show.

Representation not only gives life to a monument, but it offers the viewer a renewed way of looking at history and the spiritual sense from the emotion, approaching the more than two hundred biblical passages sculpted between the 15th and 16th centuries with a contemporary perspective.