Operator at glowing monitors overlooking a blue-lit stage

Case study

Solomun Stage Designs

Ibiza, Coachella, worldwide

A collaboration is a relationship. This one has been running since 2014.

Solomun+1 has run at Pacha Ibiza since 2014. Every Sunday of the season, Solomun brings one guest into the booth. Every week, the stage comes apart and goes back up. Every summer, it gets designed again from scratch. The brief was never a club night. It was a stage language strong enough to hold a decade of music, and portable enough to go wherever the music went.

What we built

Three rooms, one stage language.

At Pacha, the stage is the room. Up to 3.500 guests move under a light arch built for that space and no other. A dynamic LED wall carries every set, a kinetic LED sculpture is projection-mapped across custom-built objects, lasers run in sync with the visuals, and Solomun plays from a half-circle LED booth that keeps the artist and the floor reading as one thing. The identity is custom-programmed to adapt in three dimensions, which is the only reason a weekly rebuild works at all.

Coachella, 2022. A full stage design for the desert: three large LED screens behind and to both sides, light objects built for the set, a light show written around them, and a ring sculpture circling the booth in time with the music, the same signature that lights the room in Ibiza. 90 minutes of content, cut to 11 tracks, following the narrative of Solomun's album Nobody Is Not Loved.

The touring stage took the Pacha design and made it demountable. It premiered at Depot 52 in New York in 2017, then ZAMNA in the Tulum jungle, Le Bourget in Paris, Kabelwerk in Berlin, Baneasa Forest in Bucharest.

Different rooms, different scales, one hand behind all of them.

The challenge

Design one stage that has to work as a weekly club residency, as a desert festival stage, and as a touring rig. Rebuild it every week. Reinvent it every season. Never lose what makes it unmistakably his.