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AET 348: Concert and Event Lighting

This course is a lecture / lab course designed to teach students advanced lighting programming techniques utilized for concert and event design. Students create and implement a variety of original lighting designs, apply principals and elements of design, and learn how to troubleshoot a lighting control network.

Concert and Event Lighting, during Spring 2018, was a co-taught course in collaboration with High End Systems, based right here in Austin, Texas. Instructors organized topics into three major categories:

  • Pixel Mapping

  • Timecode implementation

  • Busking (designing live)

Students were tasked with designing and executing a variety of lighting designs across multiple performance spaces on and off campus. Students enrolled were provided unprecedented access to personnel and hardware resources provided by High End Systems, including the opportunity for all students to design a lighting performance for the High End Systems DEMO room.

Successful student projects relied on previous and current course learning outcomes and best practices to facilitate successful designs.

Photographs by Brian Birzer - various student projects - High End Systems DEMO Room - Spring 2018

All students enrolled in Concert and Event Lighting also serve as lighting designers for a variety of AET Live Events, which are fully produced, and open to a public audience. Spring 2018 the students served as lighting designers for a cross-departmental collaborative dance concert titled Ears, Eyes, & Feet.

Photograph by: Brian Birzer - Student work produced by: Francisco Uribe - Spring 2018

Photographs by: Brian Birzer - Student Work produced by: Francisco Uribe - Spring 2018