An array of professional AV technology – including Modulo Pi’s Modulo Kinetic Version 7 media server, Sony HDC4800 and Panasonic AW-UE150 cameras, a Grass Valley Korona V-Series video switcher and ROE CB5 LED walls – is powering the visual production on Eric Clapton’s ongoing 2026 world tour, with Canadian company Monochrome Project designing and delivering the video scenography across a European leg that ran from April to May.
The three ROE CB5 LED walls – each measuring 4.2m wide by 10.2m high – are positioned upstage to create evolving visual environments combining backdrops with live camera feeds. Modulo Kinetic runs on a Kinetic Designer workstation connected to two redundant V-Node servers to drive the screens.
The production team worked with a preview version of Modulo Kinetic Version 7, making use of new features including displacement effects, comet trails and old movie-style processing, with certain parameters controllable live. Custom effects were also developed in direct collaboration with Modulo Pi’s development team.
Mathieu Coutu, founder of Monochrome Project and video director for the tour, said: “Eric Clapton’s initial intention, as a bluesman, was to be able to showcase all the musicians simultaneously. Modulo Kinetic is therefore used to open multiple boxes of varying sizes, displaying different camera angles on the LED screens.”
Louis Buxin, innovation director at Monochrome Project, added: “We chose Modulo Kinetic for its extremely low latency when processing live inputs.”
The media server displays camera feeds with a latency of under two frames, and is also used to apply effects to live feeds without adding latency.
Modulo Kinetic additionally receives tally signals from the camera switcher, enabling automation through the media server’s task and compute graph features. The video director operated a custom graphical interface built within Modulo Kinetic, based on a 3D scene simulating the LED screens with camera views remapped in real time.
Following the European leg – which took in around ten cities including a first-ever Clapton performance in Krakow and his return to Barcelona, Madrid and Budapest after more than 20 years – the tour continues with a UK date at the Royal Sandringham Estate on August 23 before moving to the United States in September, opening in Detroit and closing in Kansas City on September 17.
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