Une soirée parfaite s'annonçait. Belle température, peu d'humidité, petit vent, la foule était au rendez-vous et Michel Lacroix aussi. Décompte terminé, la firme Arthur Rozzi Fireworks des États-Unis débutait leur spectacle avec une narration d'une trentaine de secondes qui sommairement relatait l'histoire du 'Lac des Cygnes', puis, la musique se fit entendre. Mais que la musique. Pas d'artifice. Bouhhhh. Je revivais le feu de la Chine. Cauchemar. Et... on a tout arrêté. Michel annonçant quelques minutes plus tard qu'on éprouvait quelques problèmes techniques, j'espérais une résolution rapide, mais surtout complète cette fois. Je regardais ma montre... les minutes s'écoulaient... Finalement à 22h27, la narration recommençait, suivie de la même musique, mais cette fois-ci avec artifice. Toutefois, la synchro n'y était vraiment pas. J'apprendrai plus tard que les rampes ont été démarrées manuellement. Ça explique tout. Réajustées au fur et à mesure que le feu avançait, le décallage devint de moins en moins évident, mais le mal était fait.
Certains produits manquaient toutefois à l'appel. À l'eau le design. Et parlant d'eau, pour le Lac des Cygnes, où étaient les nautiques ? Et parlant du Lac des Cygnes, à moins qu'on ne connaisse exactement quelle piece musicale représente quel moment du ballet, je n'ai pas vu de lien évident entre la pyro et l'histoire. On aurait pu intitulé le spectacle Hommage à Tchaikovsky que ça n'aurait rien changé. C'était vraiment qu'un feu sur la musique du ballet et non pas une représentation pyromusicale de ce dernier.
Mais pas que du négatif toutefois. Le design - mis à part les erreurs techniques - était très agréable avec une belle variété d'effets, autant dans les artifice 'au sol' que les bombes aériennes, et le tout, de très bonne qualité. Sans problèmes techniques, cette performance aurait récolté bien des points sur la grille d'évaluation. Mais hélas, toute cette excitation commune aux 22 heures qui peuplent mon été est rapidement tombée.
'Im disappointed, yes.' Pensif, Arthur Rozzi enchaîne 'But fireworks people have short-term memory. You think 'Well, this is it'. But the next day you wake up and think, 'Hey what's the next thing we can do ?' And the older you get, the longer short-term memory you have' conclut-il en riant. Ça m'a fait du bien de le voir rire.
En conclusion, voici l'explication derrière cette débandade américaine envoyée à Paul Marriott, signée de M. Jamie Deye, responsable du système de tir chinois Pyroseeking :
'I feel an obligation to explain the technical problem which happened at the USA show for the 2013 Montreal competition.
The mistake that was made is I violated a fundamental protocol during the time code test which took place several days before the show. The protocol requires the firing controllers be connected to the house system and verify reception of time code and verification of the firing files. The morning of the test the controller received time code but the firing file was not loaded because of last minute changes to be made. The Montreal staff asked me several times to load the firing files into the controllers and I assured them that the files were fine and 100% confident in their integrity. The impossible happened and the final files loaded were offset incorrectly by 60 seconds.
The 27 minutes delay was comprised of several attempts of manually syncing 4 controllers to the start point of the music using the correct time offset. The first attempt resulted in the early firing of red comets on Ramp 3. The second attempt allowed for the show to start 27 minutes after the originally scheduled time. After 3 minutes into the show, we were able to adjust the controllers for ramp 3 which were shooting one second earlier. The entire show was shot without using time code. In the end, we were able to get the show off close to the intended firing times, but it was not to the accuracy it should have been. The last 5 minutes of the show a circuit breaker kicked out the left side of Ramp 2 which killed half of the finale plus reducing 50% of the shows integrity. We normally cable modules that in the event of a circuit breaker trigger the ramps are split by odd even positions allowing for a full width of the show to shoot. On the day of show the odd even practice was not possible due to unanticipated technical issues.
I wish to state for the record the delay would have been avoided if I had loaded the fire files into the controllers at the time code test where the time offset error would have been discovered. I apologize to the Rozzi's, the crew of La Ronde and the viewing audience for my arrogant confidence in the files I prepared. The delay I believe did tarnish the shows integrity with the first minutes of noticeable time sync problems. At this level of performance there is no excuse for these type of problems.
The failures are by my actions and not the people or equipment involved. If you wish to publish this on your Blog I would feel I can help clear the Rozzi's name and the embarrassment to La Ronde. I let all of you down and deeply regret this.
Best Regards, Jamie Deye'
The mistake that was made is I violated a fundamental protocol during the time code test which took place several days before the show. The protocol requires the firing controllers be connected to the house system and verify reception of time code and verification of the firing files. The morning of the test the controller received time code but the firing file was not loaded because of last minute changes to be made. The Montreal staff asked me several times to load the firing files into the controllers and I assured them that the files were fine and 100% confident in their integrity. The impossible happened and the final files loaded were offset incorrectly by 60 seconds.
The 27 minutes delay was comprised of several attempts of manually syncing 4 controllers to the start point of the music using the correct time offset. The first attempt resulted in the early firing of red comets on Ramp 3. The second attempt allowed for the show to start 27 minutes after the originally scheduled time. After 3 minutes into the show, we were able to adjust the controllers for ramp 3 which were shooting one second earlier. The entire show was shot without using time code. In the end, we were able to get the show off close to the intended firing times, but it was not to the accuracy it should have been. The last 5 minutes of the show a circuit breaker kicked out the left side of Ramp 2 which killed half of the finale plus reducing 50% of the shows integrity. We normally cable modules that in the event of a circuit breaker trigger the ramps are split by odd even positions allowing for a full width of the show to shoot. On the day of show the odd even practice was not possible due to unanticipated technical issues.
I wish to state for the record the delay would have been avoided if I had loaded the fire files into the controllers at the time code test where the time offset error would have been discovered. I apologize to the Rozzi's, the crew of La Ronde and the viewing audience for my arrogant confidence in the files I prepared. The delay I believe did tarnish the shows integrity with the first minutes of noticeable time sync problems. At this level of performance there is no excuse for these type of problems.
The failures are by my actions and not the people or equipment involved. If you wish to publish this on your Blog I would feel I can help clear the Rozzi's name and the embarrassment to La Ronde. I let all of you down and deeply regret this.
Best Regards, Jamie Deye'
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