Finally… The first vid of my stage design of a pavilion for a recent tour. The challenge was to develop a setup that could be build in many different locations and could still be recognized as the same event. The “Bedouin Tent”, how it was called most of the time, consisted of a center stage, 14 triangular sails and six trusspoles which could be moved in position depending on the location. The triangles are derived from the event communication and are positioned in a way that they cross each other, creating sort of a breaking look. As most of my setups the show was mostly driven by lots of video and 12 moving heads. Big shout out to Sina and Philipp from the event agency and the Sugar crew for bringing this great event to life and rocking the place like you know how to…
the vid:
the concept:
This is a vid of last saturday`s mapping onto the Audimax building at the Technical Unversity Munich using six 15k projectors.
Beginning of the festival season and definitely one of my absolutely favorite events throughout the year.
This year`s Timewarp Mannheim was (once again) a total blast, and this is not only because of acts such as Sven Väth, Marco Carola or Plasticman`s debut of his live performance (which in the end lasted two instead of one hours), but also because it seems that more and more crazy party people from all over Europe visit the Timewarp each year.
As usually I played at Sven Väths’ Floor, with Stivo and Jedesmal Kino performing the first two acts. Setup was a big projection (2×15K Tandem), three lifting LED 3×2m Walls and a gigantic Strip of G-Lec on the ceiling, which was embedded in “the dragon”, a movable truss with six big “wings”. My personal highlight of the night was Sven Väth`s set and when he and Marco Carola, Loco Dice and Ricardo Villalobos played back to back till 3pm – what a party! Due to the time switch we “lost” one hour of partytime, but since I played a total set of 14 hours i guess it was OK.
Big respect to Michael Hock of Planwerk, who planned the whole setup and of course everybody from Cosmopop for making this fabulous event happen.
a selection of some projects…
Some time ago I played some gigs at Cocoon Club Frankfurt (Sven Väth`s Club). This place is probably one of the most advanced and phenomenal clubs around, the organic wall you can see is completely videomapped, just like the VIP cocoons and the DJ booth (more of a spaceship though than a booth). Big respect goes out to Oemer, Cocoons lighting and media designer, great job you`ve done there, keep on going.
This vid here shows the Timewarp warmup party, DJs playing were Tobi Neumann (which I played with just the night before at Thaibreak festival on Kho Phangan island, Thailand) and “the Papa of Techno” – Sven Väth
Here`s another sneakpeek of my recent visual production. As usual it`s just random elements cut together for a quick idea of what you will see at my next shows.
last year´s gig at Cocoon Club in Frankfurt with Karotte and Laurent Garnier was fabulous, this year Miss Kittin will be with us to rip this place apart. Looking forward to a very special night…
Trailer by Visual Drugstore (great work Marietta 
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Just some pics of odd things and people I found while travelling.
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