As part of the National Day celebrations, Singapore hold an annual Fireworks Celebration. This year for the first time it took place in Marina Bay Stadium. The celebrations featured several local and foreign teams who launched some spectacular fireworks - 130 varieties were shown over two days. Lighting design was made by Low Wee Cheng and Jonathan Sin, using one grandMA full-size, one grandMA light, and two MA NSPs. grandMA 3D, MA Lighting’s visualiser software, was used for pre-programming because of the limited setup time available on-site.

Jonathan Sin said: “Having just two days of setup and programming time, we had to rely heavily on grandMA onPC and grandMA 3D to preprogram the show. When we loaded in on-site, there was some further delay due to rain. We could only program and touch up parts of the show live and make use of grandMA 3D to visualise the rest of the fixtures while the crew worked hard to get everything ready. Both grandMA software tools proved extremely useful.”

Pirotecnia Igual from Spain and Lidu Fireworks Corporation from China performed their fiery art on the two evenings. Amongst others the lighting rig included 40 x Mac 2000 wash, 28 x DTS XM1200 spot, 4 x DTS Arc 1200, 24 x Syncrolite SXB-5/2D, 12 x Vari*Lite VL3000 spot. Altogether six DMX universes were used.

Showtec Communications Pte Ltd. delivered the lighting equipment.