Tuesday, December 29, 2020

REMINISCING THE GALLERY OF LIGHTS OF THE AYALA TRIANGLE GARDENS

 Location: Paseo De Roxas Street corner Makati Avenue, Makati City, Philippines


This day marks the anniversary of my visit to the Ayala Triangle Gardens’  Gallery of Lights, where I was with my pregnant wife then.  Look at my blog post of Ayala Triangle Gardens on a non-Christmas time.  Ayala Triangle Gardens is a 2-hectare landscaped urban park in Makati City of the Metropolitan Manila, Philippines. As its name suggests, it is indeed a triangular public garden and courtyard in the center of the Makati Central Business District.  It  was named after its owner and developer Ayala Land, and was opened to the public in November 2009.


Witnessing its somewhat sound and  lights show coined as the ‘Carol of Lights’ is really a 3D spectacular show to behold showcased at the dome of Tower One and Exchange Plaza totally free of entrance fee for everybody.  It opened then on November 12, 2019 and ended January 12,2020 and being showcased every half hour from 6:00 to 10:00 P.M.  It was indeed a long-running treat to everyone feasting on the jaw-dropping lights and sounds show coupled with magical music theme.  Actually,  this has been an annual celebration already,  but not during this pandemic time.


This Gallery of Lights 2019 has been equipped with new design concepts of lighting  director Voltaire de Jesus and Luther Garmia, with classic Christmas staples which tickles the fancy of everyone of reminiscing Christmasses when everyone was still kids and evolving as grown-ups.


This danceable and classical lights and sounds show vary in tunes of three different medleys from a Filipino medley by Von de Guzman familiar to kids of our times when we do have carolling at the neighborhood and beyond; another one is a techno-inspired piece from Tris Suguitan, and the last one is the jazz-inspired tunes of the Big Band medley from Mel Villena.


What makes this 3D video amazing are its dome projection of immersive images inspired on famous churches’ ceilings like that of  Vatican and historic churches with colorful stained glass windows of famous cathedrals.  This digital graphics is the masterpiece of Epson Philippines as designed by G.A. Fallarme and conceptualized by Henk-Gert Lenten.


I really miss this Gallery of Lights this year.  Hoping this will be showcased again as the pandemic is over for the next Christmas in 2021.

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