Mediavision1994 Relies on GrandMA3 to Power S2O Songkran Festival’s Record-Breaking 10th Anniversary

Widely regarded as Asia’s most comprehensive water-themed electronic music festival, S2O Songkran celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2025 with a record-breaking production at Bangkok’s Rajamangala National Stadium. Over three days in the peak of Thailand’s summer, more than 35,000 attendees per day were immersed in high-powered audio, lighting, lasers, flame FX, and millions of litres of water.

Mediavision1994, one of Thailand’s most established production companies, was commissioned by event producer Woody World to deliver a robust control system capable of managing the festival’s scale, ensuring reliability, and accommodating both house and guest operators without compromising audience experience.

At the core of the lighting control architecture was a grandMA3 system from MA Lighting International, operating in Mode 3 for primary show control with Mode 2 isolated for guest use – thereby ensuring flexibility alongside safety and system integrity. Eight grandMA3 8 Port Nodes distributed sACN data across the network forming the core DMX delivery structure; with eight grandMA3 processing unit L and two grandMA3 processing unit XL deployed to meet the demands of over 970 lighting fixtures, enhancing capacity and stability.

Three grandMA3 full-size consoles ran the main show lighting, while a fourth managed previsualisation, supported by four grandMA3 processing unit L for cue programming, visualisation, and show logic testing ahead of rehearsals. On the other hand, dedicated consoles managed other show domains: a grandMA3 light for laser effects, a grandMA3 compact XT for flame FX, and another grandMA3 compact XT for the vast water system, which operated independently but was manually synchronised with the lighting to match the show’s rhythm.

In total, 13 grandMA3 consoles were integrated over a unified VLAN with IP management and broadcast scope separation, ensuring seamless interoperability between sACN and Art-Net protocols with zero packet collisions.

“The flexibility of grandMA3 lets us define zones, roles, and boundaries clearly,” said Apipurich Amornwarang, Head of Lighting Design and Technical at Mediavision1994. “Mode 3 handled the main show exactly as we intended. Once everything was connected, we didn’t just run the show—we let the system support it.”

Through precise network design, defined hardware roles, and tightly coordinated production flow, Mediavision1994 delivered one of Southeast Asia’s most complex outdoor events without a single critical failure, achieving exactly what Woody World envisioned when they entrusted the MA system.