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How Phish turned Las Vegas’ Sphere into the ultimate music visualizer
The jam band’s run at the Sphere will be a memorable one.
And judging by recent interviews, Abigail Rosen Holmes, the show’s co-creative director, didn’t want to risk overdoing the visuals; her goal was always to keep the focus on Phish and the music, while using the Sphere’s 160,000-square-foot LED screen to enhance the tunes — not distract from them. It was interesting to pave this road together and explore.” Four completely different shows made for a daunting challenge — U2 ran the same playbook every night — and there wasn’t a ton of time between when the Sphere run was announced in the fall and this week’s performances. When not there, the company’s artists and designers spent many hours in virtual reality, working with a digital representation of the Sphere to sample how their visualizations and CGI set pieces would look from every angle in the place.
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