DroneArt Show has been touring the world for months. From San Francisco to Paris, from Rome to Berlin. From Madrid to Barcelona via Seville. And finally, it will be landing in the Levante region in a few days: it will be at the Estadi Municipal d’Atletisme in Alicante on March 13 and 14. Those who want to escape the Fallas for a little while can do so just two hours from home. Tickets are already on sale.
This show combines a live classical music concert (a string quartet will perform compositions by Vivaldi, Mussorgsky, and Tchaikovsky) with drone technology, which will fly in formation to create evocative images in the sky, synchronized with the music being played at the time. In addition, the musicians will be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of candles, a romantic and soft light that highlights the quartet but does not interrupt the drone show projected in the sky.
Technology, art, and live music
What is DroneArt Show? Let’s start with what it is not: it is not just another drone show. For starters, it works with different fleets (1,000 drones in total) that work in unison: when one fleet designs fantasies in the sky, the other is recharging. In this way, the drones have a long-lasting presence.
The technology is the brainchild of Nova Sky Stories, which produced the drone light show during Grace for the World, a historic star-studded musical event held in St. Peter’s Square in Vatican City as part of the World Meeting on Human Fraternity.
On this occasion, the drones will draw foxes, butterflies, trees, constellations, stars, flowers… (and more surprises that we won’t spoil). All of these images are related to the classical compositions that will be heard during the recital. Not surprisingly, the repertoire will include Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Debussy’s Snow Dance, Camille Saint-Saëns’ The Swanand The Cuckoo , Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee, and Paul Dukas’ symphonic poem The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, among other compositions.
