“The Great Seattle Fire”

MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND INDUSTRY,
SEATTLE, WA

Objective:

Leave a memorable impression of a critical event in Seattle’s history by presenting rich content in a delightfully unexpected format.

Services:

Concept development, research, lyrics & music, audio and video production.

Description:

The Great Seattle Fire combines an original orchestrated music track with artifacts recovered from the Great Fire, a 1950s mural of the fire with a video projected onto it, dynamic lighting effects, and multichannel audio to create soaring highs and crushing lows of a Broadway production—all within seven minutes. (Winner of the American Alliance of Museums Bronze MUSE Award for Multimedia Installations.)