the virtual concert voyageFrom ABBAwhich kicked off last May in a purpose-built London stadium and has sold more than one million ticketswill come out from world touras confirmed by the company Universal Music Group.
“Plans are under development to take ABBA Voyage around the world,” said Lucian Grainge, head of Universal. Presumably, this means that the show will be presented in specially modified scenarios in major cities around the world.
Talking to Variety magazine, members of ABBA and Universal didn’t provide many more details about a setting that looks like Star Wars some music.
A multi-million dollar project
The ABBA thing is a multi-million dollar project that took almost six years of development and had Industrial Light & Magic From George Luke using their technologies to capture the magic of the Swedes as they looked in 1979, playing their most loved songs in a 90 minute show.
while technically not a holoshow, voyage represents a new peak in that kind of technology: the four members of the band, now in their 70s, spent many hours acting to make the motion capture cameras look as realistic as possible. The result would be pretty close to perfect because They received rave reviews in almost all sectors.
For example, when covering the event on the debut night of Travel ABBA for Variety, Mark Sutherland wrote about the experience: “At first, the movements seem too jerkythe lines too obvious.”
But later, just like when you first saw the lame dinosaurs of Jurassic Parkthe eyes adjust, surpassing the initial gaze and an (in)credulity is activated that leads him “to feel the musicians live and breatheinstead of understanding that it’s more than 160 motion capture cameras and a billion hours of processing by Industrial Light & Magic”.
This is Benny
Benny Andersonone of the venerable members of the Swedish group, said: “Everything from the work of ILM down to lighting and sound, it is incredibly beautiful. It’s the best sound you’ve ever heard in a stadium, I promise you,” she enthused.
And he added: “That’s my home. I mean the music is my home, the sound of the band. All the people who work with this have been wonderful and super respectful of the history of the group. And this shows: the technique that it has nothing to do with show business. You sit and watch a band on stage. That’s what it is.
Source: Clarin
