To imply that the majority of music lighting is busked, and that color shape, mood
etc. are somehow not considered in music is both incorrect and insulting to the designers. All of the top shows out there are meticulously cued and these days it's very common for them to be triggered by timecode. Yes, some shows are completely busked, but most still have very specific cues, just because it is not run from one single
cue stack does not make it any less deliberate or artful.
The theater industry has always been slow to adapt to technology, but to say that adapting theater show to an
LED light rig is causing a severe burden on people, is a poor excuse for either not being a good
programmer for not doing a good job initially programming a show.
In rock and
roll, people figured out long ago that it was not going to be financially and logistically possible to have the exact same gear every day, on all but the largest tours, and even those
play festivals sometimes and have to make compromises. In theater, people became used to only using dimmers for the most part, and always having at least comparable
conventional fixtures everywhere they went. Now when people get something BETTER than what they are used to, they still complain about it.
Theater people need to stop using "art" as a cop-out for not keeping up with technology, or get left behind as theaters adopt all
led rigs, especially with color mixing, and moving lights.