Trans-Siberian Orchestra + Christmas Lights

[FirstBlood]

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[Xenobia_Omega]

HOLY JESUS someone has a lot of time on their hands.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra ftw mang for making music for Christmas I could actually listen to.

Seriously though.. who does this stuff?

[station82o]

Savatage rules!

[Rhydant]

I bet their neighboors love that whole get up, with the blaring music and flashing lights. Awesome.

[Fe 26]

awesome. I wonder if git that off the shelf, or if he made the timing unit

[jyoung]

Most impressive.

And for the uninformed, Trans-Siberian Orchestra has the midas touch when it comes to making interesting and original Christmas music; all of their material is worth checking out.

[Xenobia_Omega]

awesome. I wonder if git that off the shelf, or if he made the timing unit

I imagine that he made the timing unit. I asked my roomate about it after showing him the video and he said it wouldn't be terribly difficult to make something to do it all.

I still can't get over it.

[FirstBlood]

Here's some info posted by the guy who designed it:

"Anyway my display features about 16000 lights. 88 LOR channels. The MEGA tree has 4800 lights, the triangle in the middle has 22 trees of 300 each (6300 lights)."

About the mini trees: "It is 21 trees wrapped in 300 multi lights (Chuck's design)in a triangle with a single white tree at the top for a xmas tree effect , My wife's idea. It worked out very well."

[Fe 26]

I imagine that he made the timing unit. I asked my roomate about it after showing him the video and he said it wouldn't be terribly difficult to make something to do it all.

I still can't get over it.

It really depends on HOW you went about doing it. The first thing that comes to mind is to write a program that sends current to each set of lights for so and so length of time and at the right time in the song.

A second way would be to write a program that could recanize the notes and what is playing them, but that would be a 100 times harder as it would require some form of AI.

[George]

They had something like this up in rockefeller center last year as well, Galaxia and I witnessed it when we went to visit the tree. It's a bunch of snowflake light displays that fall in a pattern to a rock rendition of "silver bells."