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News for 2009:
Autumn is shaping up to being another busy one with new clients and festivals as well as our loyal repeat shows. Plus watch out for the new project 'The Hydrocarbon Sculpture Garden' that combines music, video and fire machines into an incredible performing installation.
Again, Cardiff has commissioned the company to produce a new show for this years New Year's eve celebrations. 'The Diving Bell' will take the audience deep under the waters of Cardiff Bay to explore the wonderful and strange creatures that inhabit the deep. This, however, takes place on dry land and only the audiences imagination enters the watery depths.
The 'Tattooed Truck' project is now complete with a fantastic paint job by Phlegm, resulting in a terrific amount of interest from the festival circuit! The truck will provide a 'front of house' control for a new kinetic performance and installation piece now in development. The piece will be called 'Last Supper' and involves all the mechanical, video and flame techniques of the company.
Highlights so far:
Artistic director, Doug Nicholson was commissioned to produce an improvised explosive device (IED) simulator and machine gun fire for Slung Low Theatre Company's production of 'Beyond the Front Line', a promenade piece at the Lowry Theatre, Salford. The brief was to create a large explosion outside the theatre but with no bang or debris. This was successfully done three times a night for the twelve day run.
We co produced a site specific show at Glastonbury Festival (our 16th), a collaborative pyro, flame machine and chainsaw totem show for each night of the festival.
External Combustion has been commissioned to produce a grand opening performance for Barnsley's new Civic Arts Centre this autumn.
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Pyromusicals & Displays.
This summer will see the company producing large shows throughout the UK for all our loyal customers and audiences.
Bonfire night last year saw us put on numerous shows including a large pyromusical for Darlington, which was one of the biggest Nov 5th firework display in the North of England with 80,000 people in attendance.
Once again we have been asked back to do our autumn Christmas Lights, Bonfire Night and New Year shows for 2009! |
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Download the 20th anniversary flyer pdf  1.2 mb
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Tattooed Truck.
An outdoor venue for the ‘Pyromancy’ show, live mixed visuals and sound from resident Filmmakers and VJ’s and guest DJ’s and VJ’s.
External Combustion is in the process of developing a new set of video, sound and pyrotechnic shows, which involve the use of projection, sound, flame and precision pyrotechnics. A big part of this project is the acquisition and customization of a 57-year old Austin K9 truck and investment in computers, vision mixers, DVD playback and projection technology to form a front of house system with real presence in any space.
Soon to be combined with a new project 'Hydrocarbon Sculpture Garden', an installation of MIDI controlled performing flame machines.
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Pyromancy
The manipulation and editing of found material and our own video content forms a stunning and poignant narrative of mankind’s relationship with the natural environment. This combined with a driving soundtrack, the firing of specialist pyrotechnics and gas flame projectors within the allotted physical or architectural space, takes the experience of outdoor video projection and pyrotechnics a stage further.
Download the Pyromancy flyer pdf 770 kb |
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Bradford ‘Stir’ Festival in July 2007 |
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Totem.
'Totem 2' opened the Bradford Festival in a daylight version of our touring show 'Totem 3'. |
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Fiery wheels turn, lights and sounds pulsate, fire and pyrotechnic devices are blended to create new elements and structures, melding and morphing...
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Oh to be a Dragon
“If I, like Solomon,
could have my wish.. |
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We were asked to provide a pre firework show installation for the November 5th event in Norwich. A 10 metre tall, pneumatic powered Dragon puppet performed to a sound effects loop, belching flame colour changing for two hours. Later to become a key element in a large show for New Year in Cardiff.
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