Time Warp 2014

500 SQUARE METRES OF LED MATERIAL FOR THE TECHNO FESTIVAL

Since 1994, the Time Warp Festival has been an absolute must for electro fans. In April 2014, a successful lightshow transformed the Time Warp into an impressive thunderstorm of sound. And for the milestone anniversary, we brought out our big guns: with an amazing 500 m² of modular LED material, we transformed the event in the Mannheim Maimarkthalle into a stunning and unforgettable show.

On the three main stages, we installed LED screens with a total area of ??150 m², designed with an ornate roof structure of LED creative material… but up a gear: the LED panels, mounted offset on the hall ceiling and aligned to the stage, enabled especially spectacular effects. This is how we created a tunnel of light – to bring the whole idea of a “time warp” to life.

Mounting the LED modules on the ceiling was the biggest challenge. We had just the right material for this purpose and, with our client cosmopop, an experienced partner at our side. For the high-level installation, we provided creative material that was exceptionally lightweight, which greatly facilitated the assembly crew’s work. We nonetheless needed a team of ten technicians and additional helpers who had their hands full for two long days. The enormous staff requirements quickly make the impressive amount of material used very clear: two completely filled trailers with more than 1,000 LED modules. 370 of them were used on the stage, and over 630 were used for the panels on the hall ceiling. Equally challenging was the fine adjustment required when installing the panels. To implement the tunnel construction exactly as per the client’s design specifications, an extremely high level of detailed finetuning was necessary.