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Within Temptation featuring the Metropole Orchestra

A collaboration of the celtic-gothic-rock-metal band Within Temptation and the Metropole Orchestra. For this show all the bands music was rewritten and rearranged to fit in an 80 people orchestra and a 20 people choir. When normally the choir's, violin's, etc. came from a harddisk, now everything is played live.
This sold-out event (10.000 people) took place in the Ahoy in Rotterdam (NL) on the 7th of february 2008.

PimmerPacK did the light- and video-design for this show and programmed all the lights and the video in only 1 day and 2 nights together with Remco Angenent from TenFeet.
The band rehearsed a full week together with the Metropole Orchestra to get everything right. A special dirigent was flown over from the UK to take control of the orchestra.
Technical Details:

Name: Black Symphony
Who: Within Temptation and the Metropole Orchestra

Date: 07-02-2008
Venue: Ahoy
Place: Rotterdam (NL)
Capacity: 10.000 (sold out)

SetDesign:
        Ignace d'Haese (Arf & Yes)
Light- and VideoDesign:
        Pim Elberse (PimmerPacK)
Programmers:
        Pim Elberse (PimmerPacK) and Remco Angenent (TenFeet)
Operator during show:
        Pim Elberse (PimmerPacK)
Operator TV-Lights:
        Ignace d'Haese (Arf & Yes)
Followspots Cued by:
        Ignace d'Haese (Arf & Yes)

Lights:
Control
Programmed on:
        2x HES Hog III in a network
        6x HES DP2000
Show ran on:
        1x HES Hog III
        1x HES Expansion Wing
        6x HES DP2000
        1x HES Hog III as back-up

Fixtures      
        20x VL3500 Wash
        8x VL3000 Wash
        22x VL3000 Spot
        60x VL2500 Spot
        22x VL2000 Wash
        46x VL6C
        28x VL2416
        12x Martin Atomic Color
        24x Pixelline 1044
        42x RGB Par
        204x Par36 Ashtrey DWE
        32x Par64 Raylite
        8x Setlight 1k
        48x Sunstrip
        8x 2K Bulb
        48x Lighting Cable (White)
        
Video:              
Mediaserver:
        1x Hippotizer HD
LED-wall:
        Hight: 11.26m Wide: 41.63m
        Total resolution: 470x1735
        Inside 7.6m wall was a Chromatek 6mm wall
        On each side of the Chromatek was 17m of Barco         MiTRIX LED's

Supplier Lights:
                EML
Supplier Hog III's:
                1x Hog III + 5x DP2000 by TenFeet
                1x Hog III + 1x Exp.Wing + 1x DP2000 by                         Purple Group
Supplier Hippotizer:
                TenFeet
Supplier LED-Wall:
                XL-Video
Production:
                Sightline Productions
Supplier Audio:       
                Ampco
Supplier Stage:
                SatgeCo


With many thanks to: TenFeet (Remco Angenent, Ton Swaak & Erik-Jan Berendsen), Bart Stipjes, EML (Jeroen Veenman and others), Ignace d'Haese, Gert-Jan Schreuder (Sightline Productions), Suzanne Jager (Photography) and all the others who workes on this amazing production!
Photy by: Suzanne Jager
Photy by: Suzanne Jager
Photy by: Suzanne Jager
Photy by: Suzanne Jager
Photy by: Suzanne Jager