u/guiporto32

Hey all, maybe someone can give me an idea of how I should deal with this.

Some info: I created a movie + live music show and it's been performed it only once in a small cinema. We use two MacBooks, one on stage (with Ableton for all the audio, click, cues, etc) and one in the projection room (with the movie, subtitles, etc). The whole thing is connected via timecode over audio.

But apart from all that, I also used an instance of Troikatronix Isadora on the stage MacBook to control the stage lights (which are very simple: four Slim PARs on a truss tower on each side of the stage). It was very simple, just MIDI info from Ableton to Isadora dealing with a main dimmer and some color changes. Then this was sent to my DMX Enttec PRO and straight into the first fixture. It all worked smoothly.

Here's the thing: we got an unexpected call to do the show in a big theater, two weeks from now. They have loads of lights (7 DMX universes) and an ETC EOS Gio. The light controls now have to be on the OTHER MacBook because of the distance, but that one will not be running Ableton to send the MIDI (and even if it was, Ableton would not sync up with the timecode).

I'm a beginner and have never dealt with anything similar. Is there an easy-ish way to rework my system into this new setting? I'm investigating all the possibilities, but maybe y'all will be able to enlighten me. Thanks in advance.

The song has now been released on streaming. As mentioned during the auction in episode 1, it's part of Lestat's song cycle "in the classical vein" based on the poems by Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867).

I thought Daniel Hart's musical arrangement was very interesting, and kinda reminiscent of Jacques Brel's "Ne Me Quitte Pas".

Here's the original poem, and a link with three different translations to English:

La Fontaine de Sang

Il me semble parfois que mon sang coule à flots,
Ainsi qu'une fontaine aux rythmiques sanglots.
Je l'entends bien qui coule avec un long murmure,
Mais je me tâte en vain pour trouver la blessure.

À travers la cité, comme dans un champ clos,
Il s'en va, transformant les pavés en îlots,
Désaltérant la soif de chaque créature,
Et partout colorant en rouge la nature.

J'ai demandé souvent à des vins captieux
D'endormir pour un jour la terreur qui me mine;
Le vin rend l'oeil plus clair et l'oreille plus fine!

J'ai cherché dans l'amour un sommeil oublieux;
Mais l'amour n'est pour moi qu'un matelas d'aiguilles
Fait pour donner à boire à ces cruelles filles!