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AniMotion show at Edinburgh Fringe Festival

The latest AniMotion live painting, digital art and music show was presented by Aurora Nova at George Herriot’s School as part of the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The power of original painting created in real-time and projected onto architecture accompanied by live music is a special collaboration between projection artist Ross Ashton, percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and visual artist and painter Maria Rud. The location for this outdoor experience - Venue 316 of the Fringe Festival - was the quadrangle at George Herriot’s School. The art was being projected onto the side wall of the 17th century chapel.

Ross Ashton created a projection map for the side of the chapel building which provided the canvas, including all the architectural quirks and nuances which was laid over a lightbox onto which Maria Rud paints live. The images captured by the camera were fed into a laptop running Millumin software. The content was fed out to two Panasonic PT-DZ21K projectors, beaming a blended 25 metre wide by 18 metre tall projected image of the painting process onto the side of the chapel.

Rud initially experimented with a number of ideas and established which shapes and colours worked best with the dynamics of the building. Then for each performance, the creation of the final eight painted works was entirely improvised - and slightly different - for each show. The one hour performance at Edinburgh had a capacity of 300 people.

Alastair Young of War Productions from Edinburgh supplied the projectors, the cameras were from Ian White and Progressive Broadcast, and the D&B sound system was delivered by Warehouse Sound, co-ordinated by Ann Sullivan. Also integral to the production team were Evelyn Glennie’s sound engineer Andy Cotton and Ranald Nielson who was co-ordinating the video production.

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