HANS ZIMMER LIVE
// HANS ZIMMER LIVE
THE NEXT LEVEL WORLD TOUR.
WORLDWIDE // 2025 - 2026
Our epic journey with Hans Zimmer continues, and this one’s bigger than ever!
We collaborated once again with Hans Zimmer as part of his creative team on ‘The Next Level World Tour’, an epic journey through sound and visuals that transports audiences into the emotion and cinematic worlds of his most iconic scores.
Our journey with Hans Zimmer began at the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022, where we illuminated Buckingham Palace with visuals celebrating the natural world, a truly remarkable moment introduced by Sir David Attenborough and performed by Celeste.
We reunited soon after for ‘Hans Zimmer and Friends: Diamond in the Desert’, reimagining the world of Interstellar inside Dubai’s vast Al Wasl Dome.
| IMAGES : Hans Zimmer Live, Suzanne TeresaCREATIVE VISION & ART DIRECTION
This time, we wanted to deliver screen visuals to amplify the visual design and draw audiences into the storytelling and spectacle of Hans Zimmer's most iconic scores. To achieve this, we immersed ourselves in each track, exploring its musical character, structure, identity and instrumentation. These insights were then cross-referenced with Hans’s intentions for each piece, allowing us to build a conceptual bridge between the music, the films and the live visual experience. This conceptual framework became the foundation for a fully synchronised animation, seamlessly integrated with the on-stage performances and lighting design.
The engaging and imaginative worlds Hans creates through his soundscapes consistently demonstrate exceptional artistry and compositional skill. To enhance these worlds, we used the screens in multiple ways: as a lighting tool to add emotion, as an extension of the stage architecture, and as a modular surface to blur the boundaries between physical, digital, video and lighting. Together, these elements extend the worlds on screen into the audience, making Hans and the performers the protagonists of an epic, immersive narrative.
| IMAGES : NorthHouse‘‘WE TRANSLATE THE ENGAGING AND IMAGINATIVE WORLDS HANS CREATES INTO IMMERSIVE VISUAL DESIGN’’
TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION
From a technical perspective, the show relied on a coordinated system of real-time tools, media-server playback, and automated lighting.
At the centre of the setup was Pixera’s 4RS ADA server and ROE Emerald LED panels, whose transparency let a lighting rig sit behind the screen and merge with the visuals. A full Unreal Engine previs matched every fixture and rig movement, allowing us to choreograph how lighting and LED media interacted.
With synced triggers, DMX/OSC control, and networked timing across the system, every layer, generative elements, pre-rendered media, and automated lighting ran in complete lockstep throughout the show.
| IMAGES : NorthHouseLIVE SHOW.
MUSIC.
FILMS.
EVENTS.
““THANK YOU ALL, YOU’RE THE BEST, AND WE’RE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE YOUR ART, YOUR CREATIVITY AND YOUR PASSION AS PART OF OUR LITTLE SHOW! [...] YOU ARE SUCH A LOVELY, COLLABORATIVE, CREATIVE BUNCH, AND A DELIGHT TO WORK WITH - IT REALLY WAS FABULOUS, AND I THINK WE CAN BE VERY PROUD OF WHAT WE CREATED TOGETHER!”
- JOHN FEATHERSTONE, LIGHTSWITCH DESIGN
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Huge thanks to Hans Zimmer, Steve Kofsky, Semmel Concerts, John Featherstone, the Lightswitch team, and the entire creative and production team!
// TEAM
CLIENT: HANS ZIMMER
EXEC. PRODUCER / DIRECTOR: TOM BAIRSTOW
ART DIRECTOR & CREATIVE LEAD: GUY SMITH
PRODUCER AND PROJECT LEAD: STEPHANIE WAY
LEAD TECHNICAL ARTIST AND TECH LEAD: DAN SHUFFLEBOTHAM
LEAD TECHNICAL ARTIST AND TECH LEAD: FLORIAN LECOQ
MOTION DESIGN DIRECTOR: CHRIS GAUGHRAN
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: CHARLEY DRAPER
MOTION DESIGNER: DAN RICHARDS
MOTION DESIGNER: KRISTAPS KAZAKS
MOTION DESIGNER: LYDIA CAPLAN
MOTION DESIGNER: ED BROWN
TECHNICAL ARTIST: LUKE HEATHCOTE
