The Marvel Studios films play on the big screen while the orchestra performs live. For the first Hollywood Bowl performance in August 2024, we took the imagery beyond the screen and onto the shell itself. We handled the creative direction, animation, programming and onsite video operations.

We worked closely with Marvel and Disney Concerts on the approach, and to obtain key art assets that we translated to the surface of the Bowl. Each sequence gets its own look: stars and stripes for Captain America, lightning, the infinity stones, red nebulae. The show has since traveled, and we have just completed another in Tokyo.

On September 30, 2018, the LA Phil celebrated its centennial with a free concert at the Hollywood Bowl: the first show of the season, and the culmination of a day of events that stretched eight miles from Walt Disney Concert Hall to the Bowl. We conceptualized, designed, produced and ran all of the visual components.

Our approach was built on synesthesia, the relationship between color and sound. Every piece on the program, from Stravinsky's Firebird Suite to a brand-new atonal work, was given its own palette and visual story, all under Gustavo Dudamel's baton, with guests including Katy Perry and Herbie Hancock.

The content

Flat content maps like these are designed for the shell's surface before they are projected onto it.

Behind the scenes