[SML] Video Monitors – MaestroCam

[Mt. Angel Performing Arts Center]

My experience is extremely limited but I have found in dealing with 
musicians that each and every one of them apparently requires a 
dedicated music stand light of approximately 300 watts

What is this overpowering 'parasitic light from the monitor' of which 
you speak?

<Tongue removed from cheek>

Carla

I'd rather look back at my life and say "I can't believe I did that" 
instead of saying "I wish I did that".


On 5/19/2018 4:06 AM, Steven Mclean via Stagecraft wrote:
> I have worked peripherally with video conductor monitors for opera  in 
> our space at Simpson College where Pote Theatre features a thrust stage 
> with the acting area closest to the audience, DOWNSTAGE of the orchestra 
> pit.  DMMO uses the space in the same way during the summer.
> 
> Anyway, both DMMO and the Music at Simpson companies have until now 
> REFUSED to use flat-screen monitors because they insist that there are 
> latency issues...they have a stable of tube-style monitors.  Even if one 
> could assure them that there are no longer latency issues, I am sure 
> that there are conductors/singers, etc who would perceive them.
> 
> Since Opera is about the Singing, the parasitic light from the monitor 
> FOH is just something that must be accepted...or so I am also told.
> 
> On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:14 PM, Jeffrey E. Salzberg via Stagecraft 
> <stagecraft at theatrical.net <mailto:stagecraft at theatrical.net>> wrote:
> 
>     This, from the PM of an opera I'm lighting in Vermont:
> 
> 
>     "I had planned to place a camera in the orchestra, connected to
>     monitors similar to what we've used for our fall operas, this year
>     using one large and two smaller monitors up on blocks not far from
>     the stage... but Maestro isn't crazy about that idea -- he thinks
>     having them on the floor close to the stage will make it too obvious
>     that singers are looking at them.
> 
> 
>     "He asked if we could mount them on the house R & L walls from the
>     sconces! But I don't have flat screen monitors, and when I looked
>     into it it was very expensive to find ones that worked for this
>     purpose with no delays.
> 
> 
>     "He may well have to be happy with what we've got, but I figured I'd
>     explore the possibility that Jeff knows of somewhere in Boston area
>     where they use monitors that we could borrow/rent?"
> 
> 
>     I don't, as a matter of fact (although I'll check with 4Wall-Boston
>     and High Output on Monday). Anyone have any other ideas?
> 
> 
>     The fact that they would light up the audience quite nicely during
>     blackouts is another issue entirely, of course.
> 
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