AET students in Matt Smith's Concert and Event Lighting class visited High End Systems' demo room in Spring 2018 to display their end-of-semester projects. The added challenge? They had to draw songs out of a bowl and then create lighting effects in real time as the song played.
Photos by Jen Reel
![blue concert lighting](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0648.jpeg?itok=BqkpKtJ7)
![students choose names of songs out of a plastic container4x9a0449.jpg](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0449_0.jpeg?itok=GW9F00we)
![pink, blue and yellow concert lighting with a woman's silhouette in the foreground at the programming board](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0456.jpeg?itok=wY77MKi9)
![multi-colored concert lighting](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0460.jpeg?itok=1JUzA7is)
![a woman at a theatrical lighting programming board](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0468.jpeg?itok=8f1instD)
![green concert lighting with a small crowd to the right](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0471.jpeg?itok=jZpFNQyJ)
![purple and blue concert lighting](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0491.jpeg?itok=4D_ihhL8)
![purple and yellow concert lighting](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0494.jpeg?itok=lOG4XbDn)
![two purple spotlights create cone shapes on the floor](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0499.jpeg?itok=QgcIrIim)
![students are bathed in blue light as they watch a concert light show](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0548.jpeg?itok=rhIoAaX3)
![blue, green and red concert lighting](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0611.jpeg?itok=w_MHiCBu)
![an extended hand touching the screen of a theatrical lighting programming board](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0586.jpeg?itok=Fh7F8iZS)
![pink and yellow concert lights with the silhouettes of a small crowd in the foreground](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0593.jpeg?itok=FUvcnHU0)
![blue spotlights create snowflake like patterns on the ground](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0546.jpeg?itok=CGpelWYQ)
![students show the UT hook em sign in a concert lighting demo room](/sites/sdct/files/styles/utexas_image_style_340w_227h/public/2022-11/4x9a0675-web.jpeg?itok=Jq0UGcdw)