Stravinsky Rose (Full Dome) v2.0

This work is an updated version of Stravinsky Rose in half sphere format first screened at the Understanding Visual Music (UVM) Concert, 9 Aug 2013, Galileo Galilei Planetarium, Buenos Aires, Argentina. More details here http://phd.lewissykes.info/stravinsky-rose-dome-format/.

While producing the original version was a fair undertaking (I significantly underestimated the sheer scale and consequential timeline required to produce a work in this format), I always wanted to update it. The original work suffered from comical distortions due to an error of judgement on my part on the field of view of the dome, an unpolished audio track and a fairly coarse edit.

When the UVM organisers approached me to re-screen it at a follow-up concert in Nov 2015 I agreed and also began a re-edit using the original assets – but with more insight into how to use these more effectively for the full dome format. Unsurprisingly, I didn’t manage to complete the production in time for the screening and the project’s been sitting on the back burner until now.

I followed a similar production process to the original as outlined in a post to my Digital Sketchbook – Making of Stravinsky Rose Dome format – but created custom Photoshop Actions alongside Andrew Hazeldean’ Domemaster Photoshop Actions Pack specifically to duplicate and mirror the title, credit and info sections.

Originally I’d used DomeTester – a Cinder based app by Christopher Warnow and Dimitar Ruszev – to remap a low resolution (512×512 pixel) version of the half sphere format onto a virtual dome and give an impression of what it would look like projected in a planetarium. Unfortunately DomeTester no longer works on macOS High Sierra so I looked for alternatives and found a demo version of the Amateras Dome Player software which did a similar job.

This demo video uses this mapping alongside a reduced size reference of the ~13,000 4K PNG sequence.