The Brief
Te Hono was a collaboration between Mike Mizrahi of Inside Out Productions, Jon Baxter of Perceptual Engineering, and storytellers Rewi Spraggon (Te Kawerau a Maki), Taiaha Hawke (Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei) and Pita Turei (Ngāti Paoa). At the centre of this experience sat the words and stories from our place, Tāmaki Makaurau, told by the people whose ancestors lived here.
Solution
Outside, we installed a multistory scaffold tower to house the four Christie Roadster 20k machines providing 80,000 lumens. Playback was managed via a Resolume server with a redundancy with fibre cable reticulation.
Inside, we installed twelve Christie projectors in multiple locations around the venue with three gen-locked Delta Media Servers for playback, and 3.5 Terabytes of video and still images as content.
Outcome
The Auckland Concert Chamber was completely transformed using digital projection. As the live performers told stories of Auckland, the whole room changed around them - journey inside a volcano, visit a meeting house with tukutuku panels, go underwater swimming with eels. The audience was able to marvel at the changing projections as they followed the stories. Te Hono was part of Elemental AKL.