Work Pro's LS nodes boosted URA's innovative multimedia experience

The intense lighting transmitted by these devices has helped create the atmosphere of this creative proposal installed along the coast in Quebec (Canada).

The LS Node RDM/DMX transmission device Work Pro, brand of Equipson, has played a key role in the success of Ura: a celebration of water, a multimedia experience installed along the coast in Quebec (Canada), that will be done again next spring.

The project has been designed by Cadabra, creative division of the audiovisual integration company XYZ Cultural Technology, as a differential proposal, open both during hours and at night during the summer season in Chandler, a place where the sea is economically important.

Visitors to Ura are 'transported' to a timeless maritime universe where storms are experienced, Shipwrecks, high tides of equinox and even life at the bottom of the ocean, with the opportunity to meet a lot of sea creatures, including a black whale.

Guided by the voice of lamia, a fantastic being descended from Basque legend, visitors spend an hour walking through eight spaces, accompanied by storytelling in a combination of landscapes full of life and cutting-edge technology.

Cadabra and XYZ worked closely with AVL Media Group, Canadian equipson distributor,to select audio technology, video and lighting suitable for this project, with the choice of LS Node2 to manage the lighting of the eight spaces of the installation.

As Garou Blancan points out, Cadabra designer for URA, "LS-Node2 offers DMX between four and ten different spotlights at each location. Each station has a video projector for mapping, as well as several speakers located around the room to provide the audio experience. Audio and video playback is done through a main control console that is directed with LS-Node 2".

This streaming device supports ArtNet and sACN standards and has three versions: LS-Node1, LS-Node2 and LS-Node4, where each number represents the number of freely configurable DMX universes that that model can handle.

All of them have several modes of use, including the standard node, with ArtNet/sACN inputs and DMX outputs, and Merger, a way in which the LS node can receive different universes through ArtNet/sACN and merge them into the same DMX output.

Blancan also notes that these units were selected "for their ease of use, its PoE feed and its small, sturdy construction, with an interesting value for money".

Another advantage has been its easy and simple programming. "We had multiple challenges to overcome in this project," Blancan recalls., as this experience is outdoors, on a beach, so everything, even the team within the spaces, it had to be weatherproof".

In addition, another challenge is that installing fiber optic communication "was complex and some lighting programming problems had to be solved, so having a control system in all eight spaces helped a lot".

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