{"id":929,"date":"2024-07-09T22:43:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-09T22:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orangefiles.me\/?p=929"},"modified":"2024-07-11T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T11:30:29","slug":"how-odeszas-searingly-emotional-tech-installation-healed-the-wounds-of-saying-goodbye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/orangefiles.me\/index.php\/2024\/07\/09\/how-odeszas-searingly-emotional-tech-installation-healed-the-wounds-of-saying-goodbye\/","title":{"rendered":"How ODESZA's “Searingly Emotional” Tech Installation Healed the Wounds of Saying Goodbye"},"content":{"rendered":"
As\u00a0ODESZA<\/a>‘s\u00a0“The Last Goodbye” tour finally turned into an actual prophecy, their\u00a0fans weren’t prepared for the void they’d soon confront.<\/p>\n Returning to the breathtaking Gorge Amphitheatre in their home state of Washington, the duo developed “Echoes,” a tech-driven art installation moonlighting as a monument to their unparalleled connection with those ride-or-dies.\u00a0<\/p>\n “The Last Goodbye,” which takes its name from ODESZA’s\u00a0scintillating album of the same name<\/a>, persisted for roughly three years and is now universally regarded as their most innovative production yet. The tour officially met its end last week after a trio of spectacular finale shows from July 4-6, but not before the band left fans with one more trophy for their museum of memories.<\/p>\n Walking through two rows of three iridescent, curved towers, the scene at the Gorge looked like some kind of phantasmagoric Stonehenge\u2014only with less history and more LEDs.\u00a0“Echoes” was fueled by a single PC powered by a minuscule-but-mighty Snapdragon X Elite<\/a> processor from Qualcomm, with whom ODESZA’s Clayton Knight and Harrison Mills collaborated on its development.\u00a066,000 fans passed through the bleeding-edge installation, which featured 120 LED panels displaying projection-mapped visual content from ODESZA and their tour.<\/p>\n However, even in such a smorgasbord of surrealist art and tech, the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance of “Echoes” was the integration of voicemails recorded by fans. Mills and Knight shared an anonymous phone number in the weeks prior and asked fans to leave messages containing their favorite ODESZA memories, which were played in 4D audio around the towers and transcribed on their LED panels, transforming them into conduits for immersive storytelling.<\/p>\n