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High Scream reflects Black Coffee’s creative fusion at O2 Arena with Chauvet

When South African producer-songwriter Black Coffee recently appeared at the O2 Arena in London, the team at High Scream sought to reflect their client’s genre-defying music with a production that felt like a convergence of “theatre, rave, concert and conceptual art”.

Rather than build their design around a traditional LED wall, they built it around a centrally located stage with a circular overhead centerpiece that moved and flowed with Black Coffee’s performance.

Positioned as it was in the middle of the arena, the stage connected the entire audience to the performance. For its part, the overhead structure served as a storytelling canvas for the show, which moved seamlessly through different art forms during its three-chapter narrative.

Comprised of an enormous curtain rig surrounded by draped fabric suspended from trusses, the centerpiece utilized analog projections instead of conventional LED screens. The curtain was fully automated using winches to allow for dynamic movements and shifting configurations throughout the performance.

Working in concert with this centerpiece to enhance the impact of the visual design was a lighting rig that featured twenty-three Strike V tilting strobe-wash hybrids and fifty-six Color Strike M motorized fixtures, both from Chauvet Professional and both supplied by Lights Control Rigging (LCR).

The Strike V fixtures were used to uplight the draped fabric and also served as the primary floor key light for the stage area. The Strike M units were positioned on trusses to provide strobe and wash effects that extended over the entire audience.

Working together, the various production elements helped to unfold the three-hour show’s distinctive narrative progression that blended different artistic elements into its three-part storyline. The show opened with a live opera choir supported by lush orchestral textures. The lighting supporting this segment was “highly theatrical, warm, and architectural, accentuating the musicians and treating the space like a grand concert hall”, according to the High Scream design team.

In the second segment, Black Coffee unleashed his signature deep Afro-house grooves and electronic elements. The lighting moved along with the show, powered by deeply saturated colours, low-level atmospheric glows, and “moody shadows that mirrored the hypnotic progression of the music”.

The show’s concluding chapter, referred to as “The Peak”, revved up with surprise guests like Alicia Keys. As the tempo of the show reached a new crescendo, the rig shifted into high gear with sweeping beams, sharp strobes, and expansive textures that filled the entire volume of the O2 Arena.

(Photos: Chauvet Professional)

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