Exterior Lighting

Uncompromised garden lighting for the 21st century

Lightscape Musicale brings gardens to life. Gentle cross-fading light sequences and colour hues can dynamically illuminate features that are lost in the dark. Furthermore, the system’s unique sound-to-light feature, in which your garden lights intelligently respond to any music source, adds an audio element to harmonise with visual lighting designs.

Garden Lighting

Dynamic Garden Lighting & Architectural Lighting Effects

Landscape and Architectural Designers frequently use static lighting displays to combat the loss of their designs in the hours of darkness. Lightscape Musicale offer a dynamic system of lighting and effect control, one in which movement and sound can be added to the display - gardens, interiors, buildings, water features, architectural glazing, exhibition displays, the application list is endless.

A simplified package for you outdoor lighting is available offering a subtle crossfading sequence of light scenes without the music interface to a sophisticated PC.

Architectural Lighting Design using the premium Lightscape outdoor Lighting Controller

With a lightscape garden lighting system the bleakness and darkness of the winter evenings are no longer a dread but an
exciting experience, an experience which is as changeable as the weather. Architects can now add active lighting displays to their designs in the form of subtle colour chases and rolling scene changes, transforming any building into an admirable night time attraction.

Lightscape

Lightscape creates a new dimension to garden entertainment.

Lightscape Musicale is the first dedicated garden, home and commercial lighting controller to offer full transitional, mood and sound-to-light capability, using a dedicated and easy to use remote control.

Lightscape systems need not be expensive, particularly if provision has already been made for lighting and an existing audio system is available

Installation is simple and fully detailed in the Product manual issued with each system. Our programming and control equipment has been tested and proven over a 3 year development period and failures are unlikely, however we do offer service options to ensure reliability of the external garden lights and associated Lightscape hardware.

Options range from basic inspections to regular re-design packages including the re-siting and upgrading of lights and special effects.

Outdoor Lighting Project

If you have a project that requires an exciting enhancement then look no further than the online enquiry form

Lightscape Musicale, Guide to Garden Lighting

Before doing anything, consider what you want your lighting to achieve from your garden lighting. There are three main reasons for garden lighting-

1. For security
2. For safety
3. For enjoyment of your garden at night, for entertaining and to enhance the beauty of your garden.

Security

Consider the likely points of entry to the property, and routes across and around the property. You may consider Passive Infra Red sensors, sited to cover these points of access. These can either be built into the light used to switch on and reveal the intruder, or linked up to a security lighting and alarm system. The Lightscape Musicale Light Director is able to take the input from any number of cordless PIR sensors. The security default mode will allow you to set up a separate lighting security sequence to be activated by any one of these PIR sensors. Whenever an intruder enters and activates a PIR, the default security lighting sequence will play. This system could be integrated with a camera security system, and can also be a great safety feature as well (see next section).

Safety

Consider the activities that take place around the garden and outdoor living spaces. For example, fire area, barbecue area, wood and coal storage, rubbish bin storage, working areas (for building, cutting, sorting etc.), relaxation areas on patios, decking, or lawns as well as access paths to these areas. You may require differing levels of lighting for each of these areas. For example, the access paths may not require a high level of lighting to enable you to see your way, unless there are hazards along the way such as overhanging boughs or prickly plants or nettles. You may wish to use accent lights on features such as a pond which you wouldn’t want your guests to miss (in case they fall in and disturb the carp!)The storage areas may require a higher level of lighting for safe handling, but you may reserve the highest level of lighting for the work areas, where motorised tools may be used in low or bad lighting conditions. If you relax outdoors in the summer evenings with a book, you may wish to spot light a seating area with a reading level of lighting. Tip- If the lighting is likely to be on for a sustained period, we would recommend that you think about the environment and your neighbours. Consider whether the lighting affects your neighbour’s enjoyment of their garden, or their enjoyment of the night sky. Think about whether you need all of the permanent lighting or whether you could use the lights directed more sensitively to prevent unwarranted lighting of the night sky. Hint- lighting the night sky is both environmentally unfriendly and expensive! The Lightscape Musicale Light Director will allow you both to control the dimming level of your lighting as well as which lights are on, so that you can minimise your impact on the environment and save cost of electricity. The Light Director will also enable you to set dimming levels per scene or area, so that when a particular lighting scene is activated by remote control, the lights will come on to the level required for the typical usage of that area.

Enjoyment of your garden at night

Having worked hard all summer preparing the garden for a spectacular Autumn, Winter or early Spring show, (or having spent a fortune on professional landscaping), most of us are unable to enjoy the fruits of our money and labour, except for a very limited number of hours, mainly at the weekend, (that is if we aren’t out shopping, picking up or dropping the kids or visiting Granny and Granddad). So why not highlight those parts of the garden that are the most pleasing to the eye, so that at the flick of a switch, you can see that fabulous specimen plant or tree with the beautiful bark which you spent so much time over in the summer? Use underwater lighting in the pond, and spot lights on the rockery around the pond, with softer wide angled lights on the bark of the silver birch. Perhaps that architectural looking, modern sculpture that you thought would look great in the middle of the lawn, (but which didn’t seem like such a great idea when it was installed), can come into it’s own with the right lighting and the right accented surroundings? Maybe the house or an outbuilding has some traditional character or some modern design feature you would like to bring out at night, to help your house stand out at night and be more easily identifiable? (We don’t suggest anything too spectacular, since we try to be environmentally friendly here at Lightscape!). At its simplest, the Lightscape Musicale Light Director will give you 8 individually addressable circuits per Light Regulator; with a maximum of one 150watt bulb and 7 x 50watt bulbs per Regulator and up to 12 Regulators, you can individually control up to 96 lamps. You can gain spectacular control over the lighting and accenting of your favourite garden features.

Entertainment and enhancing the beauty of the garden

Better still, why not pick out areas of the garden which could be enhanced still further for example, by coloured lighting, to create effects and enhance the night time beauty of the landscaping? You could light your favourite areas of the garden, each with its own scene, and then listen to your favourite piece of music whilst the lighting scenes change in time to the music… You could be relaxing in the study, the sitting room or the lounge, viewing the garden through the French windows, listening to music in comfort, watching spectacular new scenes unfolding in the garden. Lighting can totally transform your garden into another world, allowing you to see new aspects of the planting you never realised were there. Contrasting lighting, highlighting, accenting, grazing, spotlighting, floodlighting, dimming levels, chases, all combine to create a new dimension in enjoying your garden. Our new Lightscape Musicale Director will enable you to programme lighting in sequence to your favourite pieces of music, or accept the default programmes designed by our experts to analyse any piece of music from classical through jazz to rock, pop and dance. The result will be an audio-visual extravaganza of your own artistic design!