USW Lighting Design Technology & Sound and Live Event Production

23/04/2024

Join us this Friday for the 2024 Final Year Product Showcase in the Cardiff Campus from 11:00.

23/01/2024

Students experienced when they visited with offering demo time with the products- used for tracking actors and objects within a performance space, for automated followspot systems or to move audio and video around a space.

23/11/2023

Thanks to - students have been attending Level 1 and Level 2 Titan training with Doug. allows for virtual lighting control visulisation.

18/10/2023

Another year of the LGBTQ+ film festival comes to a close. With many students helping to provide in-screen, social area and live music gig production throughout the week.

Headliners:

Thanks to our suppliers and

28/09/2023

Students to the new course were welcomed to USW with an industry technical tour - this time of central square.

24/04/2023

This Friday! Everyone is welcome to see and support Yr3 students, showcasing the products they have made for their projects.

16/03/2023

Join us! Everyone welcome - support our Final Year students as they present their product projects at the annual showcase!

12/03/2023

Students attended at last week. We caught up with lots of industry friends and graduates who were representing the companies they now work with.

10/05/2022

WELL DONE to all final year students on their showcase, and many thanks to the students, staff, families and industry guests who attended.

03/05/2022

Why not come and support our final year students at their product showcase?
May 10th. 1130-1430. ATRiuM campus TV studio.

29/10/2021

Our second year Lighting Design & Technology students lit this evening for , which is coming to Cardiff in 2022

23/03/2021

One year since lockdown began - here at USW, we’re pausing by to reflect along with the rest of the nation for the first National Day of Reflection. Our Lighting Design Technology students have lit the Cardiff Campus to remember those who lost their lives during the pandemic, and in support of those affected.

17/03/2021

1 Year since the events industry ground to a halt. Students lit up the ATRiuM campus to raise awareness, not just for the technicians around the country - but the musicians - the creatives - the performers - and everyone else who has been affected by a lack of live events across the country.






Kit kindly provided by our friends at - and

04/03/2021

We. Are. Back. 🎉
Students are able to book time with consoles in our covid compliant room.

Feat. :: .official :: and ::

Multi tracks of performances from students.

01/02/2021

25/01/2021

It’s here and now available on our YouTube channel - - giving our Alumni a chance to chat and tell us what they are up to. The first two grads, and tell us about working in the industry since they graduated in 2018. More interviews coming very soon!

27/11/2020

Immersed! Festival pre-records.
For lighting, operates outputting to where packets are merged with RGBW artnet from a luminet.

System design by and
Floor package design by
Led panels from
Visualisation by

07/11/2020

Year 2 session, looking at structures and connection types, and suspending trusses and working with multiple points.

12/08/2020

On Tuesday we joined hundreds of other buildings across the UK in support of the Light It In Red and RED ALERT campaign, highlighting the impact of Covid-19 on the live events industry.

10/06/2020

Reflecting on the last year, our student had been out working on around the UK and Europe.

He says "I have been a lighting designer for small amateur dramatics, I have worked with providing temporary for the PGA European Tour across the UK, France and Germany. In the last few months, I have been working with Ki Light & Sound as a rigger at for clients such as; Google, EGX Gaming, Novomatic and Miss World 2019”.

Once we’re able to, we’re sure Tommy will be out again, helping these events run smoothly!

20/05/2020

last year during a looking at bridle design and . Tommy has been working for a year with several companies, so look out for our next post to find out what he’s been up to.

15/05/2020

Digging deep in the archive, we found this snap of and on the - programming in response music.

15/05/2020

to a ‘backstage tour’ of from Pete (‘14 graduate).

Students learnt about and

12/05/2020

to our visit to in 2017. Teaching on their wire-tension grid, whilst giving students design freedom.

11/05/2020

is coming to the end of a placement year at - here’s what he had to say: “I have had the privilege to spend my placement year at Jason Bruges Studio [JBS] based in London. Over this year I’ve worked on some phenomenal projects, ranging from light shows to digital artworks. The studio is built up of a creatively diverse group of people, ranging from architects, creative technologists, structural engineers, etc. It’s been inspiring to be involved in so many projects, with a range of people and to see how the projects evolve over time.

Blink is one of two projects I want to show, and one of many projects that I have worked on in my time at JBS. The charity SightSavers wanted to create an interactive installation which highlighted the effects of an eye disease called Trachoma. The disease slowly and painfully degrades your sight every time you blink – it’s important to note that they do not become blind, they lose their vision. JBS and SightSavers wanted to try and digitally recreate this effect.

For the exhibition I coded a piece of software which tracks your eyes when you look at one of 5 digital artworks around the room. Every time you blink, it will degrade the image by re-arranging the pixels – eventually leaving the artwork unrecognisable when compared to the original piece. It was important that none of the image information was lost when degrading the image, as we wanted to recreate the effects of the disease as close as possible.

The second project is a project that I worked on called the Shadow Wall. I was tasked with coding the back end of this project and making it function as intended. As you walk in front of the wall, your shadow / your form is shown on the wall. You and other people can interact with the wall at the same time. This was a really cool project to work on because although such a simple idea, it is extremely effective and visually beautiful. A fun fact is that there are 13,000 LEDs in this installation.“

www.jasonbruges.com
https://joellutherbraun.com
www.southwales.ac.uk/live @ London, United Kingdom

11/05/2020

10/05/2020

to some of our in year 2 during a practical.