This otherworldly concert series ignites all the senses — and it just landed in L.A.

French corporate Cercle is known for producing philharmonic performances successful awe-inspiring locales astir the globe: French DJ and shaper Sébastien Léger played successful beforehand of the Great Pyramids of Giza successful Egypt, Ben Böhmer spun a DJ acceptable from a blistery aerial balloon arsenic it flew implicit Cappadocia successful Turkey and Mochakk performed astatine the bustling Plaza de España successful Sevilla, Spain, and physics duo Bob Moses playing successful beforehand of the Griffith Observatory.

Now the institution has taken connected its astir ambitious task yet — and it’s bringing L.A. audiences on for the ride. Cercle Odyssey, landing astatine the Los Angeles Convention Center today, is billed arsenic the world’s archetypal 360-degree nomadic performance series. Imagine the ocular detonation of the Sphere successful Las Vegas with the intimacy of a Boiler Room set, each wrong a cube-shaped structure. The L.A. shows — featuring performances by Paul Kalkbrenner, Empire of the Sun, Moby, the Blaze and Black Coffee — incorporated immersive 8K projections, spatial soundscapes, an electrical airy amusement and different multisensory components. Each lawsuit is capped astatine 5,000 guests and nary phones are allowed (more connected that below). Want to cheque it out? Here are 5 things to know.

Cercle Odyssey is being marketed arsenic the world’s archetypal 360-degree nomadic performance series.

(Cercle)

While 1 could easy mistake the otherworldly visuals featured successful the amusement for AI, each of it was really changeable with a 360 drone camera successful assorted locations astir the world.

Cercle laminitis and originative manager Derek Barbolla teamed up with Neels Castillon, a movie manager who bridges storytelling and the quality transportation to nature, to nonstop and sprout an creation movie loosely inspired by Homer’s “Odyssey.” For the film, Castillon traveled to hard-to-reach sites including the Marquesas Islands successful French Polynesia, the Namib Desert successful Namibia and Salar de Uyun (the world’s largest brackish flat) successful Bolivia, and formed a communicative surrounding 4 characters who embark connected a travel that takes them done 4 elements: ice, the ocean, the wood and the desert.

The communicative was designed to beryllium nonlinear, truthful it tin beryllium chopped and edited, and each show tin beryllium different. Some headliners similar Moby were peculiarly hands-on successful curating visuals for their shows, portion others collaborated with Cercle to curate their ocular set.

Cercle Odyssey includes airy effects.

(Cercle)

To make an enveloping experience, Cercle Odyssey taps into your senses, including odor via a instrumentality that sprays handcrafted fragrances to lucifer the scenery and music. But 1 constituent that remains a precedence for Barbolla is the sound, of course.

For Cercle Odyssey, helium tapped successful with L-Acoustics to usage their cutting-edge L-ISA immersive dependable technology, which features much than 15 speakers supra and astir the signifier and subwoofer arrays, each of which assistance marque the dependable almighty and crisp. The exertion not lone elevates the euphony you’re hearing, but it besides makes the earthy sounds specified arsenic birds chirping and water waves — which Castillon recorded during his travels — dependable real.

Upon arrival, guests are instructed to enactment their phones into a unafraid pouch. The reason? So concertgoers tin enactment successful the infinitesimal and genuinely immerse themselves successful the experience, which can’t beryllium done with a tiny surface successful your hand, Barbolla says.

But if you’re inactive acrophobic astir not having a carnal representation from the amusement to rewatch aboriginal oregon station connected societal media, Cercle sends video footage from each of the shows to attendees afterward. In fact, immoderate of the footage they stock is changeable connected iPhones to make the authentic acquisition of being successful the audience.

However, if you request to entree your telephone for an emergency, you tin spell to 1 of 2 areas connected each broadside of the venue.

“The possibilities are infinite,” says Derek Barbolla. “We [maybe] explored 1% of what we could bash successful this room.”

(Cercle)

Shortly aft helium launched Cercle successful France successful 2016, Barbolla planned to commencement a section successful L.A. arsenic well. To bash this, helium reached retired to a fewer of his friends who were studying successful Santa Barbara, brought them the indispensable movie instrumentality and taught them however to nutrient unrecorded watercourse shows for the company. But successful the end, his thought was “too ambitious” astatine the time, helium says, and Barbolla abandoned the idea.

He went connected to big a fistful of shows successful L.A. including Bob Moses’ acceptable astatine the Griffith Observatory during the pandemic, but he’s ever wanted to big much events successful the city, helium says. So bringing Cercle Odyssey to L.A. was an evident choice.

“It’s benignant of a imagination due to the fact that the euphony manufacture successful L.A. is 1 of the biggest taste landmarks, but besides the cinema industry,” helium says, “so it was meant to be.”

Mura Musa performing astatine Cercle Odyssey connected April 26 successful Mexico City.

(Cercle)

While Cercle’s in-person shows implicit the years person required fans to get connected an airplane and question to humanities and distant destinations specified arsenic the Sisteron Citadel successful France, Barbolla wanted Cercle Odyssey to beryllium much accessible to fans. “We wanted to bring quality to the city,” helium says.

It was besides a extremity for Barbolla to marque the monolithic accumulation arsenic sustainable arsenic possible, truthful helium he utilized projected screens alternatively of pb screens. That mode his squad lone has to question with the custom-made canvas they usage for the projections, which “is precise small” and tin beryllium folded up. For everything else, the Cercle squad rents the sound, airy and camera instrumentality and hires section crews to enactment successful each city, making the task much economical and ecological.

For now, the Cercle Odyssey tour, which kicked disconnected successful Mexico City past month, volition wrapper successful Paris connected June 1, but Barbolla says helium wants to grow it and bring it to much cities successful the adjacent future. It’s besides a imagination of his to springiness the creation installation helium created to different creators and artists, truthful they tin adhd their mentation to it arsenic well.

“The possibilities are infinite,” helium says. “We [maybe] explored 1% of what we could bash successful this room.”