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Central Music • Bedrock • Stage Designs
The stage design for this televised gig consisted of three large panels arrayed symetrically behind the drum-riser and back-line and they consealed all of the projection equipment. The film operators were Philip Courtenay and myself.
The original sketch, above, developed into the design drawings for the three stage panels presented on the next page. The whites of the eyes on both Eye panels were rear projection screens and they displayed a continuous stream of images via 35mm slide dissolve units. Although not shown on the designs, the central panel also had three geometric back projection screens set into it, onto which were projected various 16mm films and film loops. These can be seen on the screen captures.
Not for the first time the stage design and presentation concept came into conflict with the perveyors of conventional TV lighting design. On the whole the concept worked in spite of the generic lighting which only partially drowned out the projections and dissipated the atmosphere.
I also made a large Eyeball that enclosed a 16mm LoopForm projector with the beam coming from the iris. This Eyeball could be moved across the front of the stage as the band performed and the image projected onto various surfaces. The front of stage floor was also painted with some visual elements copied from the back panels to integrate the whole space.
I executed a number of predetermined performances during particular songs including, painting the classical statue screen to stage right [that's your left], and making various moves of the Eyeball LoopForm. Apart form a few fragments this was entirely missed by the director so there are only one or two glimpses of these shenanigans on the DVD.