The Films As Performance
Two award-winning blue-chip documentary series, now recreated as spellbinding live orchestral performances. Presented on stage by filmmaker Niobe Thompson and conducted by composer Darren Fung.
Knowing the importance of synchronizing picture and music, our team brings a time-coded playback and click track system to each venue, complete with headphones for every player, monitors displaying picture and visual click track, and all the computer hardware to drive the system in a robust fashion. All members of the orchestra wear headphones playing a dynamic click track (with multiple meter and tempo changes) synchronized to the picture. All musicians, including chorus, will be able to see the measure count displayed in one of several monitors dispersed throughout the orchestra.
“I was amazed at the detail from the production team. With a piece of music that spans over 2000 measures, everything from the click track to measure counters to the parts had musicians interests at heart.”
Neda Yamach Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
This system was rigorously tested in workshop (two-piano) settings, before the program’s successful performances with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Orchestra.
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World premiere of The Great Human Odyssey with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at the Winspear Centre.
Narrator and Host Niobe Thompson delivers lines straight to the audience from front of stage, facilitating a dynamic and lively performance. Teleprompters well below his eye-line ensure his narration synchronizes perfectly with music and picture, without distracting from his direct engagement with the audience. Synchronization of narration and picture is ensured by an automated dialogue replacement (ADR) system commonly found in film post-production houses.
“Our house staff worked with the team’s Technical Director, resulting in outstanding execution. The team anticipated all of the major issues a house faces with the performance of live scores to picture. As a result we had three highly successful performances to sold-out houses.”
Neda Yamach Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
We have produced feature 80-minute (with intermission) and 60-minute versions of the performance, and have successfully performed to evening, late-night and children’s matinée audiences. The flexibility to program across such a wide breadth of audiences makes Odyssey and Equus in Concert a terrific financial proposition for programmers. Host Niobe Thompson and composer Darren Fung are seasoned promoters, and enthusiastically participate in media events leading up to their performances.
The rental of headphones and the multiple laptop computer system and the engagement of the show’s technical director (not including travel) are included in the license and performance fee for The Great Human Odyssey In Concert.
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These programs are represented by Latitude 45 Arts Promotion.
