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Last week has been spent sequencing the lights to the selected music. So far seven voiceovers have been completed, which took two hours to sequence. These voiceovers introduce the evening’s show, tell a story to weave the five songs together, and close the evening. Three songs have also been completed. The first will be used each night as an opening piece. The other two, plus another three, will be used to tell a story, but more about that later. What has been completed so far, including the running time and how long it took to sequence are:

Song Title                                    Length (min.)   Time to Sequence (hrs./min.
Reflections of Earth                      1:42:40            4:35

O’Come All Ye Faithful/o’Hoiy Night 3:35:40           10:40

A Mad Russian’s Christmas            3:36:73            9:45

Now it’s on to the third song in the story set, which is Christmas Eve/Sarajevo. The good news is that I’ve edited the length of the song down to 2:52 minutes, so hopefully it will go faster than the other songs. However, there are some detailed riffs included, which means more detail in the sequencing.

Stay tuned.

24 days, 22 hours

before the lights go on.

The four new controllers have been tested and work perfectly. Light-O-Rama makes a good product.

So now it’s on to sequencing. For one night there will be six songs in all, and all have been edited to be shorter in length. Then I have recorded the voiceover for an introduction, a story line to connect five of the songs together, and finally a closing. I didn’t keep track of the exact amount of time it took for the audio editing, but estimate it is somewhere around eight hours.

Before I started sequencing the songs, I elected to reconfigure my computer to accept two monitors, with one in a portrait mode so I could see all 80 channels at once, and a second one in a “normal” landscape mode where I can watch a representation of the display in an animation as the sequencing progresses. I also had to modify the animation as there was a last minute change in the light set-up. Here is the set-up of the computer screens.

But the preliminaries are complete and I just finished 35 minutes of sequencing the first song, Reflections of Earth. That 35 minutes accounts for 20 seconds of the song, which is 1:42:15 in length, which is one minute, 42 and 1/2 seconds.

Now that we are getting some much closer to the lights going on Thanksgiving night, I’ve really got to buckle down and get moving. After all, there are only

October 4, 2007