Cercle launches travelling immersive live performance set up to “mix dwell music with a brand new sort of visible storytelling”

Paris-based manufacturing firm Cercle has launched a travelling, 360-degree immersive live performance set up referred to as Cercle Odyssey.

The construction blends dwell music with a brand new sort of visible storytelling. Cercle will collaborate with artists from varied genres and backgrounds, however significantly with those that mix auditory and visible parts collectively.

Odyssey utilises 2300 m² big projection screens to envelop the viewers. These are 10 to 12 metres (as much as 40 ft) excessive, and as much as 55 metres (as much as 180 ft) lengthy. Impressed by conventional film screens, they showcase an array of high-quality photographs shot in 8K, “meticulously synchronised” dwell with music. Neels Castillon will oversee the route of those movies.

Cercle Odyssey additionally has a dedication to sustainability, as the entire gear (sound, mild, and projectors) are sourced and rented domestically. By choosing 29 projectors as an alternative of conventional LED screens to light up the scenography, Cercle eliminates the necessity to transport a large load of LED screens, subsequently slicing down on emissions.

Apparently, those that attend Odyssey exhibits will likely be topic to a strict ‘no telephones’ coverage. That is “to make sure that each viewers member can totally immerse themselves within the expertise”. Cercles hopes this can even foster “a shared sense of presence and connection”, and as a parting memento, every visitor will nonetheless obtain a folder of filmed content material to maintain.

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“My present obsession is to create the shortest connection between the music performed by the artist, the video narrative that we are going to current dwell on the screens, and the viewers’s feelings,” says Cercle founder and inventive director, Derek Barbolla.

“I need to join these three issues collectively on the deepest degree and I consider that is nonetheless underdeveloped within the leisure business. If, by the top of a Cercle Odyssey present, I see folks on the dance ground actually moved to tears, then I’ll contemplate it a hit.”

The dates and areas for Cercle Odyssey 2025 will likely be introduced quickly, and you may pre-register now to be among the many first to obtain notification of those occasions.

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