NIRVANA, 25.08.91 - Domein Kiewit (Pukkelpop), Hasselt, Belgium 🇧🇪.

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“For the creatives, we started to work with our singer, Aurora. She gave us a lot of input on making this AI-driven dialogue and managing the emotes coming from here. She also wrote the narrative behind each of the songs.We didn’t want to make a concert that was just playing an artist’s songs. We wanted the songs to form a story, and we wanted the story to touch people, to make them cry in a good way. We started to work on a narrative with the artist. We designed the emotional arc in the same way we designed Journey. We designed the metaphor of the concert to be a metaphor about the tension between humanity and nature, the push and pull between nature and people.When we worked with the artist, she would give us the story that she has in mind when she’s making the songs. We wanted to bring her soul onto the stage. A lot of the time I see these rather commercial virtual concerts, and I always feel like the character looks soulless. I don’t really feel like they’re on the stage. In order to make the artist feel like she’s present, I asked her to give us her idea of what the players would do in the stadium. I asked Aurora to give us the narrative that she imagined would happen alongside each of the song. It would have her DNA. Then I would weave these stories together into an emotional arc. We used to worship nature, and we’re the masters of nature now. That’s the narrative. Then we play it out through all of these audience interactions.To me, this is an interactive concert. The audience shouldn’t just sit there and watch. They need to participate in the musical journey. The orange part here is the audience. They represent different aspects of nature throughout the concert. In the end, they become part of nature with Aurora, who represents a goddess of nature. It was a long process to creatively find where we are today. It’s not just a technical challenge. It’s a powerful piece. Emotionally, we were aiming for a high bar.I can show you the climax here, where everybody dies and is brought back to life. They’re like butterflies. This is 3,000 butterflies, and the sun rises, which brings back Aurora, who represents Mother Nature. A lot of people were crying. You can see the emotes from the players. Then we have this giant version of Aurora. Instead of just jumping around, she reaches out and touches you and holds you, like your mother. A lot of the players, when they played this part of the concert, they were crying. It reminds them of their mothers, the love they have.”

Jenova Chen on working with AURORA for Sky’s “Concert in the Light” in  GamesBeat interview (December 26th, 2022)

photos @ Pukkelpop by acalltothedreamers // 20.08.2022 // Hasselt, Belgium

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Alex Tuner at Pukkelpop 21.08.2022 | Hasselt, Belgium

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A field in Kiewit, Hasselt during a winter sunrise. The same field where the Pukkelpop festival is organized every year in the summer.

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AURORA backstage @ Pukkelpop by Shane McCormick // 20.08.2022 // Hasselt, Belgium  

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A barge on the Albert Canal in Hasselt during sunset