Our Connected City for Vivid Sydney – our lighting of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and CBD is always an annual highlight for us. This year, we’ve returned our stunning installation that sees the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 15 CBD buildings and 10 towers around Circular Quay all illuminated in perfect synchronisation with a specially composed soundtrack by Bailey Pickles Music.
The installation features over 3,000 custom ‘mTubes’ outlining the Harbour Bridge, 150 searchlights around the harbour foreshore and in excess of 500 additional fixtures that uplight everything from Circular Quay Railway Station, skyscrapers and the approach of the bridge. The entire Our Connected City system uses Mandylights’ own infrastructure and crew – from the smallest uplight through to the city-wide control system. In a process that runs almost continuously around the world, Mandylights supplies completely in-house design, project management and technical direction – giving us unmatched control over the creative and production delivery of such a large experience.
Our custom-made control bunker is hidden on-site, where control is broadcast to our proprietary 4G nodes that allow for real-time, flawless control of all lighting and video elements across the city along with video monitoring of all of our installation sites. We also stream real-time video content across the Harbour Bridge through a direct fibre connection with the structure.
The main show sequence features several hundred cues synchronised with the ten-minute soundtrack which is streamed from our control room via a Cinewav app.
We’re thrilled to continue in 2024 as a proud Vivid Supporter and to work again with creatives such as Gill Minervini, Mel Horkan and the entire team at Destination NSW to be a part of one of the world’s largest light festivals.
Photos by Destination NSW and Ben Hathaway
