The National Live — Band Silhouettes Against LED Screen Grid

25 October 2017 · Amsterdam

Four band members reduced to silhouettes, the massive LED screen behind them broken into shifting blocks of blue and white pixel light. The screen functions as architecture here — a grid of geometric panels suspended above the stage, each section running its own fragment of imagery. The figures in front are small against it, which is exactly the point: the stage design is the other performer.