Electric Daisy Carnival was a three-day long festival in Las Vegas starting on the 22nd May 2022. Our role was to conceptualize and model what such an industrial structure might look like, how to make that space as visually enticing for the attending crowd, and then work with the lighting designers on how to utilise lighting tech to enhance the space for a night-time audience.
The bassPOD zone plays host to the heavier, bassier music at the festival, and usually has a more sci-fi aesthetic. The theme for the bassPOD at EDC 2022 looked at the intersection between nature and technology to create a green-energy factory from the future.
The centre of the bassPOD houses a raised DJ platform in a stripped-out shipping container that holds the artists high above the crowd. Behind the suspended container is a large central cylindrical tank, that beams out the main content within an angular steel framework.
There are then four smaller cylindrical tanks that each play out mapped content to fit the scientific theme of the cylinders, including hydroponic plants and liquid growing tanks. Connecting these cylinders is a series of aluminum duct piping that carry fictional air and liquid between the tanks, unifying the different elements to create an immense futuristic factory. Additionally, each of the cylindrical towers holds programmed pyrotechnics to be intermittently released to wow the crowd below.
Technical Details
// 5 growing tanks
// 50 bird of paradise
// 50 succulent plants
// 1000m of air duct piping
// 125,000 audience
// 762m2 of video screen
Show Director Leisure Entertainment Group Lighting Design Bending Light Productions Video Design & Animation The Wolves Staging Supplier Stage Co. Stage Design STUFISH
