There’s a moment early in Radiohead on Strings when the room dissolves. The first notes of “Everything in Its Right Place” rise from five musicians on the floor of the Jane & John Justin Foundation Omni Theater, and overhead, the ceiling fills with color spilling onto the screen, as if the audience were sitting beneath the surface of an ocean, watching waves roll in from below. It’s cosmic and a little disorienting, setting the tone for everything that follows. This is a concert experience that engages much more than your ears and eyes.
ConcertDome Fort Worth opened its doors Friday night, June 5, with this debut performance, and the premise is deceptively simple: take one of music’s most singular catalogs, strip it to its emotional bones, and wrap the entire room in live, reactive visuals. The result lands somewhere between a chamber recital and a planetarium dream.
A marriage of live sound and art
What separates this from a Vegas Sphere-style spectacle is the word “live” — not just the music, but the art on the screen.
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“Everything you see will never be replicated again,” Cinephonic Studios co-founder Scott Berman told the crowd during the intro. “This is a one-time deal. It will never look the same way and never sound the same way again.”
Berman knows the territory. He’s spent 35 years making visuals for local heroes, including Tripping Daisy and The Polyphonic Spree, and his team produced “Resolution,” the album film currently screening in this very theater. The visuals here skip stock screensavers for inspired images in real time, digital colors colliding under a petri dish, stringy and smeared one second, drifting from black hole to black hole the next.
The local string ensemble — violinist Florence Conrad, violist Rachel Li McDonald, Nicolas Tsolainos on bass and Jonah Kim on cello among them — gives Radiohead’s gloom plenty of room to breathe. The band’s gothic moodiness suits cello-deep low end far better than the chipper string covers you’d hear on “Bridgerton.” There’s actual weight here.
A musical love letter built in Texas
Violinist Tom Yaron, one of ConcertDome’s co-founders, framed the whole enterprise plainly between songs: every night is “a musical love letter to a different theme.” He also pulled back the curtain on the work behind it. “It’s all of our composers and arrangers that reimagine all this music,” he said. “It’s all done in-house.” Much of it is born in Texas — The Radiohead track “All I Need,” for one, came courtesy of Austin-based arranger Karl Metzi…