The birthday celebration for Moscow was a spectacular mega event, which included a cutting edge 4-D projection mapping show taking place on the walls of the Moscow University and a fireworks show. For providing a reliable communications system for the whole area, the organisers split up the area into to dedicated zones: The control tower and the university building.
The two areas were interconnected via fibre. Artist 64 and Artist 32 mainframes at both positions formed the underlying infrastructure. Besides the digital matrix intercom, a Riedel Performer digital partyline system and various mobile Motorola radios were used. They were integrated into the infrastructure via Riedel's universal radio interface RiFace.
A total of 25 Artist 1000 control panels were used at the event, while the connected Performer partyline installation consisted of 17 C3 beltpacks and 3 Performer C44 master stations, which integrated the partyline into the matrix intercom system.
(Jim Evans)