Vaib

The problem

Programming stage lighting is slow, expensive and gatekept by a small number of specialists. A touring show can lose days to it, and a smaller venue simply goes without.

The approach

Vaib learns the properties of the actual fixtures in a rig — what each one can do, how it moves, how it colours — and combines that with training on hundreds of concerts to produce a lighting design that suits the music.

The hard part was not generation. It was constraint: the output has to be physically executable by the specific rig in the room, which means the model’s suggestions are bounded by a live model of the hardware rather than a generic notion of “stage lighting”.

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