How I Used my Light Jockey Work Station at Bloom Nightclub in Nelson, BC
Here is a look at my work station as a Light Jockey, I programed several complete screen with up to 140 buttons, each programed manually to help me control not only the room light but also moving lights, on another computer I had the led ceiling alone and one yet another one, had Resolume to control the visuals on the 8 projectors across the room !
An amazing setup that I tried to categorize by "Mood" or "Scenes". My favorites were Royal (Purple & Orange) and Fire of course... The rest were action to control the strobes, and special movements I recorded in advance for a live act's position on the stage. Lotta work in the back end I tell you that! Now two years in, it has been a lot of fun to create all those moods and ambiances as well as program positions and movements for the led ceiling, walls, moving heads but also the 8 video BenQ projectors ! Software used: - Madrix (Ceiling) - Light Jockey by Martin (Room & movers) - Resolume (Projectors) Bloom Nightclub in Nelson, BC in the Savoy on Baker Street Install mostly done and updated by SonicLab I used to work at Bloom where I first was finishing the woodwork in there.
When the lights were installed and all fixtures all over the place, color wise and not programed yet, I sneaked behind the light console and tried to figure it out. With my background as photo journalist and visual eye, I wanted to create moods and few colors, 3 to 5 at most to make a good scheme. So I started making "cave", "fire", "water", "forest" and "royal" (purple & gold), and also grouped the living wall separately to give it its own color scheme of 3-5 colors (greens and yellows)... after a good hour or so, Jimmy, the owner of the club, Bloom Nightclub, the whole building, the Savoy Hotel and the Music Festival Shambhala, walks in the club and sees his club for the first time lit up properly, thoughtfully... I explain to him what I just did and shows him the schemes and explains the potential for the rest to fuse with the effects, motions and moods that the moving lights, led ceiling and video projectors will add. Clearly stoked, he hired me on the spot to be Bloom's official Light Tech, then Video Map the walls, became the VJ Visual Tech. and got trained on Audio which I had some experience in back in France... and handed up running major acts, djs and bands live as all of those roles, sometimes all at once on small night and sometimes as dedicated, full on light show which I loved especially for live acts!
Anyway that's my story of how I managed to work at Bloom, a unique top of the line Nightclub strong of the Shambhala Music Festival Team and experiences as North America's Best Music Festival in 2019. Despite their 23 years strong of working with the best in the industry, to have been hired and given this opportunity to apply my creativity there was an honor!
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