Concerts and festivals
The crowd becomes part of the rig.
Ten thousand screens is a lighting instrument nobody is using. Wildlights puts them on the same clock as the song — and when the audio is coming from the desk rather than from you, it listens and follows.
The problem it solves
You are not the one pressing play.
It listens to the room
The host phone takes a few seconds of audio through its microphone, matches it against the track's own fingerprint, and works out where in the song the room actually is. Then it tells every phone to be there too.
It keeps following
A live set drifts. A deck runs a little fast. Wildlights keeps listening and corrects as it goes, including matching a source that is running slightly off its nominal speed.
It refuses to guess
A match has to agree with itself twice before anything moves. Silence, crowd noise or a different song produce no sync rather than a wrong one — the room never lurches because someone shouted near the phone.
Nothing to patch in
No cable to the desk, no timecode, no DMX, nothing added to anyone's rider. Somebody stands near a speaker holding a phone.
Using it
A few ways it gets used at a show.
One song, properly
The encore, or the one everybody knows. Build that show carefully rather than trying to light a whole set.
The house between sets
An ambient wash across the crowd while the stage is dark, with the room slowly changing colour instead of sitting on a house light.
Split the field
Ask which stage people came from, or which side they are on, and the crowd has sides that can answer each other.
Two things to be honest about.
You need people to join. A show is only as big as the number of phones holding it. That means the code has to be somewhere people will actually scan — on the screens, in the app, on the wristband card — and somebody has to tell them what it is for.
Flashing in a crowd that size is a decision. The standard setting keeps within the usual three-flashes-a-second guideline, and the strobe-like bursts only exist on the highest setting and only at the biggest moments. Read how the limits work before you pick, and tell people what to expect.
Try it on one song.
Build it, watch it back, and rehearse the listening on a speaker in an empty room.
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