Creative direction and stage design for Gordo’s 8 hour set at The Brooklyn Mirage 2024.

We began building a show language for Gordo, starting with Coachella 2023. Each time it varies while carrying the thread of anarchist, massive scale, minimal urban.  We always strive to put Gordo amongst the audience. We want it to feel like a place, a club, more than a stage.

This year, we developed “scaffolding city” concept.  For his 8-hour show, we created a tiered scaffolding city world through our visuals — where it gradates from sky, to x-ray scaffolding structure, to walled structure, all the way down to the rave in underground. The stage was designed horizontally / linearly, where people on the single platform looked like they’re on an elevating / descending soundship led by Gordo down the scaffolding city.

CREDITS   

Creative Direction + Stage Design: SAYOKO OSADA
Production:  WKNDHRS / ADAM RODRIGUEZ
Content Direction: MATEA FRIEND
Visual 3D Animation: KYLE
Visual 3D Production: DUNCAN CARMICHAEL
Visual Art 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 Ballboa