It was sometime in March 2020 when the pandemic turned from
international news to a reality in our community. My musical friends
were already feeling the existential dread of an eminently shut down
world. It was during this month when I put everything I had into
forming my former livestreaming company, now known as ELECTRIC AIR.
Our brand new system, engineered in such a way that my contractors
never had to get close, enabled chamber music from musicians in
separate rooms. It enabled us to camp outside the homes of musicians
and interface with remote and constantly sanitized cameras. Working
with organizations and groups like The University of Calgary, Calgary
Pro Musica, Land's End Ensemble, Early Music Voices, Theatre
Encounter, and many more, we brought live performance into the homes
of people starved of live culture totalling tens of thousands of local
views.
As restrictions slowly settled, we began forming a new identity for
our company. Buying remote head cranes, jibs, steadicams, and remote
video transmission technologies, we began engaging in high fidelity
livestreams intended to to elevate the experience of live with camera
movement and creative switching. Serving arts organizations across
Canada, we now also produce streams intended to boost local community
turnout for events, as well as create innovative multicamera projects
for film, TV, and online media.