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Coldplay’s Inflatable LED Spheres

The four large video spheres in Misty Buckley’s production design for Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres look deceptively solid. Wonderfully round, covered in 25mm pixel pitch LED strips, they’re actually soft surfaced inflatables. Contributing a lot to the sustainability efficiencies of the tour—the spheres are lighter in weight, take up far less truck space, and require much less labor to install/dismantle. They inflate in about two minutes and deflate in about seven minutes. Each sphere hangs from one chain motor, and each has a custom dolly cart for storage and transport.Read More »Coldplay’s Inflatable LED Spheres

Coldplay’s Video and Camera Systems

Coldplay video control with the three engineers.

On Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres tour, there are powerful video and camera systems that provide the video team the ability to take in any signal—in any flavor—and play it back where, and whenever needed on the many playback surfaces of Production Designer Misty Buckley’s massive set. Those playback surfaces include two 14m (45.93’) circular I-Mag screens—which are used constantly throughout the show; a large arched video wall—known as the Moonrise—that is approximately 44m (144.35’) wide by 6m (19.68’) at the tallest; and four large inflatable LED video spheres suspended high above the Moonrise. The I-Mag and Moonrise LED screens are made from ROE Visual Carbon Series CB8 8mm LED panels and the LED spheres are covered in PRG LED Strip with a nominal 25mm pixel pitch. [For more details on the inflatable LED spheres, go to page 24.]Read More »Coldplay’s Video and Camera Systems

Horse-Drawn Video

When Queen Elizabeth II ascended to the throne in early 1952, she probably never imagined that, 70 years later, her video likeness would be smiling and waving to her royal subjects from the same a gilded horse-drawn carriage. Technology helped bring her Platinum Jubilee full circle from her Coronation Day.