Sound Co
Eighth Day Sound
Venue
Washington Monument,
Washington, DC
Crew
Project Manager/Account Executive: Beau Alexander
Systems Engineer: Richie Gibson
Stage Technician: Justin Stiepleman
Sound System Deployment: Sean Tingle, Mike Vultaggio
Gear
FOH
Speakers: (44) d&b audiotechnik KSL8, (36) d&b J-Subs, (24) d&b J8
Amps: (40) d&b audiotechnik D80 amplifiers
Processing: (12) Lake LM44 processors
Event Details
In late July, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) treated the public to a five-night celebration of 50 years since man first stepped foot on the moon with large-scale projection-mapped images on the Washington Monument.
On July 16, 17 and 18, from 9:30 to 11:30 p.m., the projections depicted a static, full-sized, 363-foot Saturn V rocket on the 555-foot-high monument’s eastern façade as a “teaser” of sorts for the main show on July 19 and 20. That’s when a special 17-minute show, Apollo 50: Go For The Moon, presented projection-mapped video on the monument along with side screens and an audio track to tell the Apollo 11 story, with the help of archival footage and images from JFK’s inspirational speeches the Saturn V rocket’s assembly and liftoff, and the astronaut’s daring voyage into space and moon landing, followed by their safe return to earth. The presentation was conceived and commissioned by the Smithsonian’s NASM.
