The tree sculpture at Glastonbury seen across a packed field after dark, its hanging fronds lit pale pink and white above the bar and stage structures

Glastonbury Festival

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Pixel-mapped DJ booth tree sculpture

Through innovative LED technology and meticulous design, ENTTEC transforms Glastonbury Festival grounds into a mesmerizing visual spectacle. Every aspect of the festival experience is enhanced by ENTTEC's solutions, products used to achieve to installment include ENTTEC's LED Mapper and Pixelator controller.

The show-stopping centrepiece of the 2017 Glastonbury Festival was an 18-metre-tall tree sculpture built by Factory Settings Ltd, which came alive with a spectacular light show while DJs performed inside it each night. Lighting designers Bailes + Light assigned ON LX Ltd to provide control, infrastructure and programming solutions that transformed their technical dreams into reality using some core ENTTEC products.

Situated in the Greenpeace Field at Glastonbury, the entire tree was LED-mapped using ELM (ENTTEC LED Mapper) Pro, while the data distribution was handled by a single Pixelator, controlling both live and timecoded shows across 40 universes of RGB pixel tape.

The tree from out in the field at night, ragged fabric leaves catching purple light with festival marquees off to the right

Solution

Controls

Powered by ELM (ENTTEC LED Mapping Software) and ENTTEC Pixelator

Lights

Lit up by 40 Universes of Pixel Tape

Diagram of the control chain, ELM (ENTTEC LED Mapper) running on a laptop into a rack-mounted Pixelator, which drives the tree sculpture across 40 universes of pixel tape

Result

  • A lighting console and screen on a deck built into the sculpture, painted branches and fabric streamers rising around it
  • The tree seen from across the packed field, a pink beam and a spray of white light fanning out from its trunk
  • Wider view of the sculpture, smoke drifting through the crowd toward the lit marquees and a timber shed at the edge of the field
  • Green lasers fanning out beside the sculpture, a bar sign glowing beneath the branches

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