Music Synced Projection Mapping for Concerts, DJs and Live Shows

The bass drops and the whole wall breaks apart in color. The bridge goes quiet and the stage fades to a slow drift of texture. When picture and sound land on the same beat, the audience stops watching a screen and starts feeling the song.

We build projection shows that move with the music, for artists, festival stages, clubs, brand parties and holiday spectacles. If you have a set, a track or a live act in mind, tell us about the music and the venue.

Music synced projection mapping ties every visual cue to the audio, so the mapped surface behaves like another member of the band. The visuals are custom-created for the music, not generic loops, and they follow the song's dynamics from the loudest hit to the softest passage.

The one technical point that holds it together is timecode. Our media servers synchronize the projection with the audio feed: the server receives timecode from the soundboard and fires each visual cue as the song reaches it. For live performances we can adjust on the fly, so if a guitarist extends a solo, the visuals stretch with it.

• Content built from the music. We start with the tempo, mood and narrative of each track, then design bespoke animation that follows the setlist, from high-energy bursts for dance tracks to atmospheric washes for ballads.
• Sync and playback. We supply and program the media servers, whether the show runs on timecode, on audio triggers or on live inputs.
• Live VJs. Our VJs can live-mix content to the music on the night, and we can work with assets your own creative team or resident VJ already produces.
• Rigging that respects the stage. Projectors often sit behind the stage so they do not cast shadows on performers.
• Coordination with your crew. Our event design team coordinates with lighting and sound engineers so the projection complements the rest of the production instead of competing with it.
• A rehearsal day. We build in a rehearsal day where the artist can run through the set with the visuals and make last-minute tweaks.

Timecoded shows. For a fixed piece of music, the whole show is built and rendered in advance and plays in lockstep with the track. Once the content and setup are finalized, we can loop or trigger the same show night after night.

DJ sets and club nights. Here the projection has to adapt to the DJ's set rather than a fixed track. In a club we design around the moments that matter most, like the main drop, and the media server syncs content to audio triggers or live inputs as the set unfolds.

Concerts and festivals. On a festival bill, modular content can be swapped nightly to match each headliner. Outdoors, evening sets work best, because daylight washes out projection.

Shows where the visuals are generated live from cameras or data are covered on real-time projection mapping, and shows that respond to guests' movement on interactive projection mapping. Add beams and fixtures with projection mapping and laser shows, or the sky with drone projection mapping shows. The animation itself is produced by our projection content creation team. For narrative shows with the audience inside the story, see immersive theater, and for seasonal spectacles see light festivals, Christmas shows and Fourth of July shows.

• The Venetian Holiday Spectacular, Las Vegas. Our holiday projection on the St. Marks Clock Tower was timed to live music from the Streetmosphere musical group. Because the content was processed in advance, the 17-minute show ran at the press of a button.
• The Dome in Miami. For AG Entertainment's immersive nightclub, with performances from rappers and musicians, our creative team produced over an hour of custom 4K Domemaster content and VJed the entire 3-day event for over 60,000 guests. One server mixed the content while a second ran playback through twenty-four 18K lumen HD laser projectors.
• League of Legends All Stars afterparty, Las Vegas. At Mansion 54 we cut the visuals into VJ friendly clips sized for the 360 space, and our VJs live-mixed them to the music through the night on 8 6K lumen 4K projectors.
• Big Sur private party, California. Our team handled everything from building the venue itself to creating the content and VJing the event.

See all our projects.

Send us the setlist or track, the venue, the date, and who controls sound and lighting on the night. We will come back with how the show syncs and what it takes to build. Browse every surface we map on our projection mapping services page, or contact our team to get started.