GORDO

Live
Creative Direction, Stage Design
2023-24

A body of work built alongside Gordo across Coachella and The Brooklyn Mirage, from 2023 to 2024 — developing the visual and spatial language of his emergence as a new artist identity, moving from the maximalism of his Carnage era into something anarchic, minimal, and rooted in club culture.

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At Coachella 2023, drawing from Russian propaganda graphics and the sheer scale of the Sahara stage's screen architecture, we built a statement-driven visual performance that announced Gordo's arrival in his new name — bold, confrontational, impossible to ignore.

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At The Brooklyn Mirage 2023, we began developing a show language that would carry across every subsequent show — anarchist in spirit, massive in scale, minimal and urban in form. Always putting Gordo amongst the audience. Always making it feel like a place, a club, not a stage.

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For his 8-hour set in 2024, that language crystallized into "scaffolding city" — a tiered visual world that descends from open sky through x-ray structure down to underground rave, the stage designed as a horizontal soundship carrying Gordo and the crowd deeper underground together.

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For Taraka at The Brooklyn Mirage 2024, an iteration of the same concept brought the scaffolding city into the built environment itself — tiering the physical structure around the DJ so the audience became part of the scenography.

Client: Gordo
Production: WKNDHRS
Creative Direction & Stage Design: Sayoko Osada
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Coachella 2023
Animator: Gabriel Viotto, Tiago Scaff
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The Brooklyn Mirage 2023
Fabrication: Millwright
Lighting Design & Op: Ian Davis
Pyro: SDFX
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The Brooklyn Mirage 2024
Content Direction: Matea Friend
Visual 3D Animation: Kyle
Visual 3D Production: Duncan Carmichael
Visual NYC Cityscape: Nate Mohler
VJ: Luis Gabriel Castilleja
Technical Design: TechniDesigninc / Benjamin Van Brande
Lighting Design: Courtny Lynn
Fabrication: Johnny Ortiz
Fabrication / Speaker Case: Tengo Brooklyn Balboa
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