Sunday, September 07, 2008
Bennett’s NIN Design
LiveBlog: "I saw Nine Inch Nails at the Izod Center in New Jersey Wednesday evening. Roy Bennett has created another striking design for this Lights In The Sky Tour¸ one that rollingstone.com has already called “a 21st-century marriage of old-school showmanship and bleeding-edge technology…” The design is not something you see every day, in a good way. Completely immersing the band in LED screens is just one of the many design elements that blew the audience away. How often have you seen a band play from just a few feet behind a screen with another two screens just a few feet in the background?"
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I think Reznor really understands where the music industry is headed: make a giant spectacle where profits are based upon shows and merchandise, and provide your music readily available format online. Reznor has enough terrifyingly obsessive fans that will shell out for special edition box sets and what have you, but that's beside the point. It appears that music is starting to become more and more theatrical and about its performance. Hopefully this will spell the end for terrible live bands that sound great in the studio...
Or it'll just lead to more lip-syncing.
The staging for the show sounds amazing. Its a great example of how tech can make or break a show.
for an article on the visual design of a show, it's quite disappointing that the only picture appears to have been taken on one of the first cameraphones ever invented.
it was also quite disappointing that the article was only about 200 words long with a tag at the bottom "read my article next month"
and unless i'm interpreting this wrong, it doesn't sound all that amazing... innovative, yes, but entertaining? not so sure.
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