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An Amish town that builds live sets for music acts

wired.co.uk

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Lititz is by no means 'an amish town'. It was founded by Moravians. Its more suburban than rural.

Interesting note: The owner of Tait Towers owns a home that looks like a castle on top of a hill.

That's the guy who owns that castle out by Millport Road? I've always wondered about that place.

It overlooks Millport Rd off of Woods Dr, but yes, that is Tait's towers =).

Yeah, there are some Amish in the area but it isn't an Amish town in any way. The whole Rock Lititz thing they built is pretty awesome. It also brings lots of huge name acts to the whole Lancaster area. Especially Katy Perry, but if you want to see her you have to go to Olive Garden, seriously!

I am a happy CTO of a SaaS AI company but ever since I graduated a double Msc in computer science and EE, I miss playing with PLCs.

It seems to me that the worlds of industrial computing/EE and software are finally merging. Being involved in Navigator design & dev must be an amazing job.

Anyone has more technical info about it? I guess it's probably a bunch of QNX hosts sharing data on Modbus and from there bridges to the light show & al to synchronize everything?

Their careers section mentions Siemens gear but not much more...

Would also love to know more about this tech. I dabbled in show control (MSC) when I was a lighting tech with my high school theatre company. Loved it, but it barely worked... Running MIDI over WiFi between two computers running QLab is not a good idea!

To get around this, I used to create ad-hoc WIFI networks with my iPad running Lemur and my MacBook Pro running Ableton.

The local network, always hosted on the Mac, was absolutely reliable enough to do live-streamed, videotaped combo theatre/musical performances with. I literally counted on it.

I still had an MPD32 by my MacBook in case it messed up, but over a series of 7 performances it never did. Many of these are even on video.

Call it luck, though. I considered myself crazy for doing it to the point where we actually wrote the use of the iPad into the script, it affected our whole team that much. I was a lot more of a naïve girl back then with regards to the reliability of these things.

Or possibly, back then, shit was just more reliable (here’s looking at you, Sierra/High Sierra/iOS 11).

Hello from Water Street, Lititz. It is pretty cool to live here.

I always planned to live in Lititz, but I've only made it to neffsville so far as permanent residence wise. Sadly it's not walking distance to the bulls head.

Great article, but it's depressing to learn that acts are optimising their performances for a single "instagram moment" that will maximise publicity, potentially at the expense of the actual live experience.

Why depressing? Remember when bands prohibited recording devices from their concerts? They are now finally realizing that fans with cameras (video and still) can do more for publicity than a bloated advertising budget, something which newer bands don't have access to.

So wired block images if you use an adblocker?

Seems like images don't load if you block wired's own javascripts.

Lazy loading via javascript at work... If your adblocker has an option to use the <noscript> element, the images display fine on wired though.

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