{"id":339,"date":"2019-09-06T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T09:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=339"},"modified":"2019-09-06T10:35:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T09:35:32","slug":"are-firework-displays-an-art-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2019\/09\/06\/are-firework-displays-an-art-form\/","title":{"rendered":"ARE FIREWORK DISPLAYS AN ART FORM?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SKY ROCKETS IN FLIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nworlds of art and technology are moving ever closer towards each other. If you\nhave already listened to my audio file interview with Evelin Toledano you will\nhave heard us contemplating whether or not graphic design has now become an\naccepted art form. In a recent article submitted to https:\/\/lanzaroteinformation.co.uk<\/a>\/ I wondered,\nafter seeing an almost balletic bombardment conclude the Charco de San Gines\nFolklorica Music And Dance Festival, whether even organised firework displays\nhave now become an art form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\npress of one or two buttons on my favourite search engine have since revealed\nthat we can now even purchase sim applications that allow us to build our own\ncomputer generated firework effects, or choose pre-designed ones from huge\neffects libraries. I\u00b4m not sure what this means, though I do intend having a\nplay with it, but you can apparently create a 3D world with realistic lighting\nand you can even add smoke and shadow simulation on screen, and then set the\nwhole thing to your favourite music. (well, they say you can but I know I can\u00b4t\n!). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any\nEnglish people who are still as young as I am, can probably remember a tv\nadvert from some decades ago that was shown throughout October each year. We\nwere implored to \u00b4light up the sky with Standard Fireworks,\u00b4 but the nearest I\nwas able to get to that as a child was to stand with a sparkler in my hand\nwhile dad tried to launch the rockets, mum lit some lovely Roman candles and my\nyounger brother ran screaming away from the firecrackers I was surreptitiously\ndropping around his ankles, and hid at the other side of the bonfire. That\nbonfires were still below the radar of health and safety in those days meant\nthat parents could, for weeks in advance, coerce us kids into collecting and\nstoring all the garden rubbish so that come November 5th<\/sup> dad could\nplay at Guy Fawkes and set it alight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only\norganised communal bonfires are advised in England these days, and over here in\nLanzarote recent dreadful fires on a neighbouring island have reminded us how\nprudent the local government is in banning bonfires more or less altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nevertheless,\nfirework displays can be as emotionally moving as the one we recently saw, but\nif they are badly prepared can be an expensive, emotionally empty damp squib.\nBy looking on https:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/<\/a>  you can hear Michael Larkin, a director of\nStarlight Design who provided the pyrotechnic backdrop for the Diamond Jubilee\ncelebrations at Bucking ham Palace, telling you how to craft your own night sky\nspectacular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FIREWORKS OVER THE BEACH<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps,\nthough, a successful display with its \u00b4sky rockets in flight\u00b4, (to borrow a\nline from The Starlight Vocal Band\u00b4s song, Afternoon Delight) requires not only\nthe creative and technical skills of a designer but also the receptive skills\nof its audience. The concluding display at the Charco de San Gines Festival was\nso amazing as to almost take the breath away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\ncertainly quietened even the usual oohs and aaahs and wows often heard at such\nevents as thousands of people on the beach at almost midnight gazed up into the\nnight sky as reverentially and spiritually and silently as people who stayed up\nto watch the first moon landing fifty years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps\nour English language hasn\u00b4t yet caught up with such rapid development, because\nmy search engine didn\u00b4t seem to find a word to match my definition. I remain\nuncertain of what to title someone who \u00b4choreographs\u00b4 those firework displays\nwe\u00b4ve all seen, at least on TV, for national events, when the fires in the sky\nseem to dance to the soundtrack that accompanies them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\ndisplay at Charcos de San Gines was somehow even cleverer. In the absence of a\nsoundtrack the fireworks themselves seemed to create an audio file of\npercussion made up of whizzes and bangs as everything seemed to explode in\nexquisite timing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ncolours cascaded down a pitch black sky, and there was one movement that, as we\nlooked up at the figures being created in the night, reminded me of the shots\nof the underside of the landing space crafts in Spielberg\u2019s Close Encounters Of\nThe Third Kind. Some fireworks seemed to hang in the air for ever, others shot\nup a flare and then suddenly faded away, whilst others seemed to leave a\nlasting colourful glow, and any artist would surely see in that a metaphor of\nlife. Whether we felt we were watching a promise of peace or a threat of the\nwar of the worlds was for us each individually to decide and I guess we each\nhad to make up our own minds, too, about whether such beauty was proof of the\nexistence of God or just another example of humankind\u00b4s ability to manufacture\na lot of heat and noise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\nwe are now beginning to consider these manufacturers and designers of firework\ndisplays as artists is certainly an interesting development but at the end of\nthis incredible show we two English people in the crowd were left offering our\nGod a line from The Kinks and say \u00b4thank you for these days we\u00b4ll remember all\nour lives.\u00b4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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