27/10/2025
Ayreon is a musicproject by Arjen Lucassen with an album called "The Final Experiment" in 1995, which turned out not to be -that- -final-. Now, thirty years later, Ayreon has grown to legendary proportions within the industry with lots of Areonauts (fans), albums and past shows. To celebrate this milestone Tilburg (NL) turned into Areon-city for a week with anniversary concerts in the 013.
While Arjen writes the music, an army of musicians join him on stage to bring the music to life. From the more than 140 musicians that were part of the project, Anneke van Giersbergen, Damian Wilson, Robert Soeterboek, Wudstik and many more performed a selection of songs from past albums. Each album has its own narative, ranging from timetravel to spacetravel, so sampling from all those stories made for a packed show.
Pim had been part of the creative team for the 013 shows the past years and came back to the Tenfeet studio to Previz his lighting design.
Arjen, Lori, Joost and Fjorf joined us in the studio.
Dave worked on the Pixera Mediaservers, sequencing the content.
Sam joined to learn the ropes.
This Pixera system was a two machine setup: In FOH one server was used for showcontrol, timeline, sACN and LTC input, and specific controls from the 'control'-webUI. Connected through just one CAT cable the second machine was backstage, outputting the video feeds directly to the LED processors.
📸: Dave van Roon
