THE NEXT STAGE: LIVE VISUALS

2025

Immersive live visual content provision

For Shambala 2025 I was commissioned to manage the visual content provision for a brand new immersive stage - The Next Stage. I managed a team of 8 technical artists and collaborated with the lighting and sound team to build a full on immersive show with boutique animated visuals and text throughout the festival, quickly responding to artists needs and the vibe needed by the music.

We used a combination of Resolume Arena and Touchdesigner to generate and display the visuals, a HDMI capture card and NDI to route visuals from the stage, and Dante to receive audio information for audio-reactive content. We sent a pixel map over NDI to the lighting desk to make lights react to the visuals, and follow the sounds around the 9.1 channel surround from d&b Audiotechnik.

I designed custom animations using a mixture of frame by frame animation, Blender/Unreal Engine for 3D content, and Touchdesigner for generative abstract visualisations.