Disclosure
2022
Headline Tour

The live visual world for Disclosure's headliner slot tour, in the Energy era.

Project Details
The visual direction for Disclosure's headline tour extended the aesthetic of the Energy era into a large-scale live show. It had to balance club intensity with arena-scale spectacle, so these themes were built out into a dynamic live system, bringing in filmed guest artists and 3D motion capture to create a layered performance environment. Creative direction was led by Aries Moross with show designer Matt Pitman.
The project began in 2020 but was paused by the pandemic, resuming in 2021 when rehearsals took place and the content was refined and expanded ahead of the band's return to the stage.
I developed early concepts across a broad scope of the project and delivered the visuals for What's In Your Head, Magnets, Birthday and the Graham Interlude. The interlude was a moment of release in the set: a slow zoom out from the Ecstasy album cover, set into the surface of the earth, pulling back into space, carried by an atmospheric motion texture that returned as a recurring motif across the show.
During final production I spent a week onsite at Production Park Studio 001, working closely with Aries Moross, Santiago Avila, Matt Pitman, lighting programmer Dan Crowther and D3 programmer Rich Porter of The Hive, alongside the wider production team. The rehearsals focused on pacing, scale and integration across lighting, screen content and stage architecture, making sure the visuals held up in the live arena. Rehearsals had originally been planned in Los Angeles ahead of Coachella, before the project was restructured and brought to the UK.
The visual direction for Disclosure’s headline tour began in 2020, extending the aesthetic of the Energy era into a large scale performance environment. The project was paused due to the pandemic before resuming in 2021, when rehearsals took place and the content was refined and expanded ahead of the band’s return to the stage, headlining Main Stage West at Reading & Leeds Festival.
Creative direction was led by Aries Moross in collaboration with show designer Matt Pitman.
The show needed to balance club intensity with arena scale spectacle. Visual themes from the Energy era were extended into a dynamic live system, incorporating filmed guest artists and 3D motion capture to create a layered performance environment.
I developed early concepts across a broad scope of the project and delivered visuals for What’s In Your Head, Magnets, Birthday and Graham Interlude. The interlude acted as a moment of release within the set, beginning with a slow zoom out of the Ecstasy album cover integrated into the earth before transitioning into space, accompanied by an atmospheric motion texture that became a recurring motif throughout the show.
Catagory
Live Events
Type
Live Visuals
Onsite
The Graham Interlude was a short moment of release, and a chance to bring the album artwork onto the stage. It opens on the Ecstasy album cover set into the surface of the earth, then pulls slowly back, off the planet and out into space. The squares that appear in space are arranged after the Kepler space telescope's array, the instrument built to search for distant worlds. The atmospheric static texture also became a recurring motif in the show. The production headlined Main Stage West at Reading & Leeds and played a feature performance at Alexandra Palace in London.











During early development, I explored a range of visual experiments that informed the final direction, including photogrammetry studies, Vector-Polygon OSL shading, pseudo 3D mapping and volumetric displacement. These investigations shaped how dimensional surfaces and digital distortion translated at scale.
Credits
Show Design
Matt Pitman
Aries Moross
Lighting Design
Pixelmappers
Matt Pitman
Dan Crowther
Lighting Programmer
Dan Crowther
Laser Programmer
Seth Griffiths
Disguise Programmer
The Hive
Rich Porter
Sam Lisher
Video Design
Studio Moross
Project Management
Ashleigh Evans
Producer
Hazel Falck
Motion Design
Santiago Avila
Ashley Back
Sam Barcham
Dexter George
Nic Hamilton
Leio Kirtley
Aries Moross
Rich Porter
Thomas Ricquier
3D Motion Capture
Metastage
Live Action Capture
Andy Sladeck
Aries Moross
Marshall Kelly
Management
Method
Tobias Iddison
Photographer
Luke Dyson
Videographer
Tom Haigh






