BIG unveils immersive stage design with inflatable sphere for whomadewho’s world tour

BIG designs immersive stage for WhoMadeWho’s world tour

Famend structure agency Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has collaborated with Danish digital music trio WhoMadeWho to craft an modern stage design, elevating the reside live performance expertise. The groups have unveiled an inflatable sphere, harking back to BIG’s viral Burning Man ORB, that doubles as a canvas for 3D video projections. The placing design accompanies WhoMadeWho all through their world tour, which commenced in November 2023 in Istanbul and concludes with a remaining live performance within the band’s hometown, Copenhagen, in April 2024.

BIG’s modern stage design guarantees to raise the reside live performance expertise | all photographs courtesy of Michael Poselski – offbrandproject

BIG x WhoMadeWho introduce inflatable sphere for 3D projections

For his or her world tour, WhoMadeWho (discover extra right here) sought to mix their avant-garde sounds and visuals with an immersive stage setup, creating a brand new audiovisual expertise that pushes the boundaries of reside performances. To deliver this imaginative and prescient to life, the group determined to accomplice with the crew at BIG (discover extra right here).‘We met Jakob Lange from BIG Architects at Burning Man 2018 randomly as a result of we needed to search shelter from a mud storm in a random camp. He got here to us and mentioned ‘I’m additionally Danish’ – that was the start of a powerful friendship,’ the Copenhagen-based band tells designboom. ‘We’ve the deepest mutual respect and it felt very pure for us to contain Jakob and BIG in our blurry visions for the WhoMadeWho world reside tour, attempting to succeed in out to a world past our regular musical circles. And we had been extraordinarily grateful and honored that they needed to play alongside.’

BIG’s participation ensures a live performance expertise that goes past standard limits. Their portfolio continuously intersects with the digital music area, highlighted by their iconic contribution to Burning Man—The ORB, an 85-foot-diameter inflatable mirrored sphere that gracefully hovered over Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. ‘Our design for WhoMadeWho’s stage attracts from our earlier ventures into inflatable creations like SKUM and THE ORB,’ Jakob Lange, Companion and Head of BIG Merchandise, says. ‘With most visible affect, the inflatable sphere serves as a canvas for charming three-dimensional video projections, elevating the live performance expertise to a brand new degree.’

the inflatable sphere doubles as a canvas for 3D video projections

Transferring past technicalities and inflexible design terminology, WhoMadeWho paints a vivid image of their stage as an otherworldly spectacle. They liken it to the arrival of three small spacecraft in entrance of a large LED display screen. ‘On the prime of the stage there’s this gigantic silver sphere that’s built-in with the lights and the visuals, but in addition on the similar time doing its personal factor visually,’ the band describes.‘The scenography and visuals add one other degree to the live performance expertise. Enhancing deeper and basic feelings. That’s what folks inform us a minimum of,’ they add. 

‘For this reside expertise, we wanted one thing to assist this inside journey of the listener to unfold. To remind the spectators that we’re all a part of one thing larger,’ the band shares with designboom. ‘The collaboration with BIG was meant to boost that feeling. We humbly really feel that it has efficiently elevated our reside present visually, making it greater than only a musical expertise. A correct inventive assertion for the world to get pleasure from.’ 

the design for WhoMadeWho’s stage attracts from BIG’s earlier ventures into inflatable creations like THE ORB

the large silver sphere blends with vibrant lights and visuals

WhoMadeWho likens the stage setting to the arrival of three spacecraft in entrance of a large LED display screen

the ensuing design pushes the boundaries of a traditional live performance