Alex Reardon, lighting and set designer for Tyler, the Creator’s Igor tour, likes to play with unconventional materials as projection surfaces. “I’ve used oversized bubble wrap (for Duran Duran, twenty-something years ago), string (Khalid, this year) and all sorts of random materials,” he says. For this tour, inspiration struck while watching the artist at an album launch show. ““I saw him in ‘Igor’ character, wearing a white wig with the flowing hair, and the light bulb went off. So I pitched an idea of a series of organically shaped, essentially ‘hair’ backdrops that we could project onto and also to hide an LED screen in — to be deployed for certain songs.” He credits Sew What? for being “absolutely brilliant” in making the concept work.
—Steve Jennings, from “Production Profile,” PLSN, Dec. 2019, page 44.
