ABSTRACT
June 6, 1986 is the day I started working in the entertainment industry. As an electronics technician, I was hired by my new employer, Blackstone Audio Visual, to help keep the lighting, audio, and video gear working that was installed in various nightclubs around the country. Late that summer I got my fi rst hands-on experience with an automated moving fi xture. It was a 350-watt moving mirror fi xture manufactured by an Italian lighting company called Coemar. It had exactly fi ve control channels: pan, tilt, color, gobo, and shutter.
