Israel
Technical director · Sound, lighting, show control
I handle the technical side of live events: sound, lighting, video, networks and show control. The work spans documentary and film festivals, conferences, touring artists, and venues that have to run every week.
Planning the whole event. Venue drawings, stage and screen geometry, rigging points and load approvals, power, network, load-in schedule, contractors, safety paperwork and the documentation the crew works from.
FOH and system engineering. Input list, patch, stageboxes, DSP and matrix. I split the PA into zones: mains, subs, front fills, delays, the broadcast feed. Plus frequency coordination and in-ears.
grandMA2 and grandMA3. I build the file so the next engineer can open it and find their way around. Timecode (LTC, MTC, network) ties playback, presentation, visuals and lighting together. The show repeats, but the operator still outranks the timecode.
ProPresenter, Resolume, Blackmagic. Multi-output systems where the wall, the projectors, the stage display and the stream each get their own feed. On the LED side: processors, receiving cards, mapping, module orientation.
Consoles, processors and receivers are network devices now. So I design the event network as carefully as the audio patch. Dante, SoundGrid, managed switches, IP control, and the server side that automation runs on.
When the tool I need does not exist, I write it. Console emulation, protocol bridges, show-file tools, camera control over PTP/IP. I work the protocols out from real traffic.
Film festivals in Perm, conferences in Moscow, touring in Israel.
Perm
Technical director
A documentary festival, international since 2006. International jury, FIPRESCI jury, a national competition, a forum with pitching sessions, seminars and masterclasses. Technically that means several venues and screening rooms on one schedule, each with its own sound, projection and stage requirements.
WTC Congress Centre, Moscow · 7–9 May 2026
Technical director
Five rooms running at the same time. The main hall had a full stage build and a large LED wall whose geometry we reworked several times to fit the venue. Eight rigging points, with floor loads approved by the building’s engineering department. A separate wired line backstage, interpretation for foreign guests across all three days, haze cleared on paper, and a load-in that had to fit the venue’s window.
Perm
The main project of Perm’s 300th-anniversary programme, launched in 2023. Over two seasons it grew to 25 events, with an audience above 580,000 and 2.9 million views online. The festival city on the esplanade runs all summer: open-air stages, weather, and infrastructure that has to stand for weeks.
I wrote these for my own shows. They are here in case they are useful to you too.
Moves a grandMA2 show file down to an older software version. MA migrates shows upward only; this rewrites the version the file claims so a venue console can open it.
Web
Open
Input lists and stage plots for sound and lighting crews, kept in one place instead of a folder of spreadsheets.
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