Spotify Surround Sound is a new live performance format created to bring artists and audiences closer together, while extending the experience beyond the room through a series of full-length concert films.

Launching in Lagos with Tems and Runtown, the shows placed each artist at the centre of an intimate 1,000-person audience, creating an immersive in-the-round environment designed equally for the live experience and the camera.

As Creative Director, Production and Lighting Designer, I developed the creative and visual language of the shows across staging, performance, lighting and screen content. Working closely with each artist, their teams and Spotify, we built two distinctly different performances within the same format - using their music, stories and individual identities to shape complete visual and emotional journeys.

The result was a pair of live shows conceived not simply as concerts to be filmed, but as complete pieces of music storytelling, experienced first by the audience in Lagos and ultimately by a global audience through Spotify.