#FLUME CONCERT SOFTWARE#

Last September, a giant panther bounded across the Carolina Panthers’ stadium in a similar fashion. Riot Games brought a giant dragon to the opening ceremonies of the League of Legends Worlds 2017 final a camera followed the shrieking beast as it flew around fans at the stadium. Unreal Engine worked with Flume’s artistic team and other technical collaborators to create massive psychedelic 3D images that blended in seamlessly with his stage design and set, floating around the artist and into the Indio sky.įor the last couple years, AR visuals have been making their way into live broadcasts, although mostly as small gimmicks.

#FLUME CONCERT SOFTWARE#

This year, Coachella partnered with Unreal Engine-Epic Games’ 3D software development tool, which I wrote about in this newsletter two weeks ago-to create what organizers say is the first livestream to add augmented reality (AR) tech into a music festival performance. Were they giant inflatables? Mirages on a 200-foot-tall LED screen? Sheer hallucinations of the mind? If you were watching the Coachella YouTube livestream on Saturday night, you might have done a double take as giant leafy trees and a Godzilla-sized parrot slowly rose above the stage of the electronic artist Flume. You can find past issues of the newsletter here. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of the Internet. The show will leave you feeling bubbly, and the fans are an absolute pleasure.A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. If you’ve never experienced a Flume concert and you get a chance to, take it. We stayed and chatted with some people that were partying next to us, then flooded out of the venue with everyone else.

What felt like forever, but in reality was only a minute or so went by, and lo and behold, the man himself came back out to grace us with one more tune! We all danced and sang and jammed one last time, before the lights came on for good. But this sea of Flume lovers was not going to let him go that easy! Never in my life have I heard such a loud and persistent bunch, chanting and insisting he do just one more song. After finishing what we thought was a last song, the lights came on again and people started to head out. Flume seems to make reality feel like a dream everywhere he goes, and this tour was no exception! Calm yet so exciting is a Flume concert, bringing a beautiful vibe and energy almost hard to explain. Flashes of light purples, pinks and blues filled the venue. The visuals went hand in hand with each and every song, bright and bold and a perfect fit for this show. Hit after hit, he played almost every song of his new album “Skin”, but also brought us back to 2012 by playing a good majority of his first self titled album “Flume”. Immediately his stage set up lit up, and boy was it beautiful! Made up of what looked like three dimensional cubes, LED around the edges of each one, it was a sight to see! The music began, with high energy from the very start. Screaming and clapping began as the 24 year old came out and greeted all of us, asking how everyone was feeling and letting us know how excited he was to be there. The lights went dark again, and you could feel the energy pulsing through the air. We ended up with an absolutely perfect view of everything, but still had the critical room necessary for dancing and being wild! We were on the floor, but decided to stay towards the back for a better view of the artists. Meeting new friends was a simple task, everyone seemed genuinely happy… you could see smiles as far as you looked. Lace and Floral seemed to envelop most of the radiant females I passed, while most of our lovely male friends donned tye dye shirts and pin covered hats…even spotting a few Electric Forest t-shirts in the crowd (shout out forest fam)! From the minute we passed through security (very cool people by the way), the vibes were there. With tickets in hand and floral attire on to match the album, a few friends and myself ventured into the whimsical world that was a sold out FLUME Concert World Tour stop. Hermitude got the entire crowd rowdy and amped up before Flume went on and some people thought was more impressive than Flume’s set.