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Press & News

Coverage, interviews, announcements, and outside perspectives on the projects, people, and visual systems behind MELT EVERYTHING.

This page brings the historic Melt Creative and Melt Interactive press archive into the studio’s current home. New features and announcements will be added here.

Living Legends performing during Atmosphere and Friends at Red Rocks Amphitheatre
2025 / Concert review

Living Legends at Red Rocks

Cypher Sessions covered the exact Atmosphere & Friends performance where MELT created and operated a custom visual show for Living Legends, including a tribute animation honoring Aesop the Black Wolf.

Selected archive

Coverage & Features

Magazine stories, event reporting, artist coverage, and industry features connected to work produced under the MELT EVERYTHING, Melt Interactive, and Melt Creative names.

2026
Initiative news / Direct credit

Cetadelic Expands Its Immersive Advocacy Mission

Coverage of Cetadelic’s new direction names Morgan Lavery, CEO of Melt Creative, as a creator of the initiative and quotes him on using immersive art, music, and visual storytelling to support ocean-conservation organizations.

2025
Nonprofit spotlight / Direct credit

EMA Spotlights Morgan Lavery and Cetadelic

Electronic Music Alliance profiles Cetadelic as a cause-driven campaign led by Morgan Lavery, CEO of Melt Creative, and follows how Morgan brought Josh Valenzuela and GANTASMO into the project’s open-source visual and music ecosystem.

2025
Concert review / Get Em High

Atmosphere and Friends: A Legendary Night at Red Rocks

A second perspective on the exact Red Rocks show, highlighting Living Legends and the all-star underground hip-hop lineup.

2024
Official archive / Direct credit

Video Mapping at Opulent Temple

Burning Man’s official gallery documents Morgan Lavery operating the video-mapping visuals for Opulent Temple as the crowd gathers for the camp’s nighttime music programming.

2024
Projection-mapping feature / Las Vegas

Don Julio Turns the STRAT Into a 1,000-Foot Bottle

Production and local reporting document the exact Super Bowl LVIII activation: Don Julio 1942 projected across two faces of the 1,149-foot STRAT tower. MELT converged and blended the 35-projector south-face system for the Lumen & Forge production.

2023
Official event news / VALORANT

VALORANT Takeover Los Angeles

Riot Games announced its one-night Brownies & Lemonade music event in Downtown Los Angeles, part of the wider VALORANT Champions takeover where MELT operated the live visual show.

2022
Podcast interview / Melt Interactive

SQE Podcast: Melt Interactive and Web3 Creativity

Josh Valenzuela and Morgan Lavery joined the Stop Questioning Everything podcast to discuss Melt Interactive, Web3-era creative practice, and 3D animation work for Non-Fungible Labs projects including Seekers and Muhammad Ali: The Next Legends.

2022
Activation feature / SXSW

FLUF World Builds an Open Metaverse at SXSW

Official SXSW and local reporting on FLUF Village, FLUF Haus, and the three custom-built domes that brought the digital world into a physical event environment. Altered State Machine’s event recap also credits Melt Interactive with bringing Brains and All-Stars into an immersive dome experience.

2022
Technology event / Axios

Dell Technologies World Returns to Las Vegas

Coverage of the exact Dell Technologies World gathering supported by MELT’s large-format visual environment, scenic screens, and branded stage media.

2022
Official launch / Authentic Brands

Muhammad Ali — The Next Legends

Authentic Brands Group’s official announcement introduces the AI-powered boxing world and identifies Non-Fungible Labs as the visual-game and character-design lead—the production pipeline where MELT provided motion-capture and character-rigging support.

2022
Culture feature / VICE

Inside Vampire Empire at Burning Man

VICE Romania interviews the camp’s founder about the exact Vampire Empire environment, its Romanian identity, gothic details, interactive programming, and elaborate build—the architecture for MELT’s custom projection-mapped stained-glass system.

2021
Opening feature / Forbes

Inside Planet 13 Orange County

Features on the Santa Ana superstore’s interactive digital beach, wall-scale waterfall, and immersive retail environment-the visual systems at the center of MELT’s project.

2021
Broadcast feature / CBS News

60 Minutes+ Explores a New Digital Art Era

CBS documents the exact Emmersive Entertainment production where Laurie Segall became a 3D avatar and Flo Rida explored full-scale entertainment NFTs. MELT cofounders helped build Emmersive and ran the volumetric-capture and avatar workflow featured in the segment.

2019
Production feature / Direct credit

Designing the Goo Goo Dolls Summer Tour

Live Design directly credits Melt Creative with creating the bulk of the tour’s video content and details the collaborative storyboarding, cue integration, virtual scenery, CGI pyro, and synchronized playback workflow.

2019
Industry technology / PLSN

Avolites Synergy Day at Melt Creative

PLSN’s worldwide launch report documents Avolites Synergy Day concluding at Melt Creative in Las Vegas, where Group One demonstrated the combined lighting-and-video control system.

2019
Industry training / Live Design

Avolites Brings Ai Training to Melt Creative

Live Design names Melt Creative’s Las Vegas studio as one of three US hosts selected for Avolites’ intensive Ai media-server training program.

2019
Official event / Partner context

Amway Celebrates 60 Years at Mandalay Bay

Amway’s official A60 page and the event designer’s case study document the international anniversary gathering at Mandalay Bay where MELT mapped branded media across the outdoor beach environment.

2019
Festival feature / Las Vegas Review-Journal

Life Is Beautiful Helps Transform Downtown Las Vegas

A feature on the festival’s cultural and economic impact, connected to MELT’s live social content and festival visual work.

2018
Partner feature / Direct credit

Samuel Adams Air & Après

Production partner Lumen and Forge directly credits Melt Interactive for helping create and execute the big-air projection-mapping spectacle at Sugarloaf Mountain Resort.

2018
Festival review / Los Angeles Times

Adult Swim Tries the Multi-Day Festival Experience

The Los Angeles Times reviews the inaugural Adult Swim Festival, while Buzzbands’ independent photo report documents the exact ROW DTLA environment where MELT contributed projection mapping and festival visual content.

2018
Industry interview / Direct credit

Inside Melt Creative’s Touring VJ Practice

An extended interview with Melt Creative VJ Jordan “Pickles” Leonard discusses Morgan Lavery, the Datsik touring pipeline, content creation, stage design, immersive installations, and the studio’s expansion from electronic music into corporate visual production.

2017
Tour review / Your EDM

Said The Sky Stuns Fans With Massive New Live Show

A review of Said The Sky’s Always Summer live show and its expanded audiovisual presentation.

2017
Artist coverage / Direct credit

Infinight Creates Custom Visuals for Skrillex at Burning Man

Dancing Astronaut’s report on Skrillex’s Camp Questionmark set directly identifies Infinight as the visual artist behind the custom show accompanying the performance.

2017
Festival production / Exact project

Building the First Lost Lands

Production and editorial recaps document the inaugural festival’s projector platforms, volcanoes, dinosaurs, and large-format environments. Kyle Gordon’s published collaborator archive directly credits Melt Creative within the 4K and 8K visual team.

2017
Tour technology / Live Design

deadmau5 Cube 2.1 Custom Visuals

Live Design and DJ Mag cover the Cube 2.1 tour’s moving graphic-panel system and custom visual world, where MELT contributed real-time animations, rendered loops, programming, rehearsal, and show-system integration.

2017
Event recap / Direct collaborator credit

A Look Back at Redken Symposium

American Salon recounts the Manhattan-themed opening production at Mandalay Bay. Studio ZIRO’s project record directly names Melt Creative as a collaborator on the pre-mapped 4K content for the motorized center wall, 120-foot runway, and LED wings.

2017
Official program / Direct credit

Skoll World Forum Creative Partners

The official 2017 Skoll World Forum program lists Melt Creative among the event’s creative partners for the Oxford gathering, where the studio created and operated 4K ceremony content.

2017
Tour production / Shogun Stage

Datsik Introduces the Shogun Stage

303 Magazine and Insomniac document the Ninja Nation tour’s Shogun visual stage production, the architectural LED temple for which MELT created mapped content and provided touring visual direction and VJ operation.

2017
Production feature / Direct credit

Designing the Indy 500 Snake Pit for Daylight

Live Design documents the 50-by-160-foot 8K wall built for the 2017 Snake Pit and quotes production designer Collyns Stenzel directly crediting “Morgan at MELT Creative” for the custom content on the massive screens.

2016
Official artist recap / Direct credit

Bass Center Premieres New Visual Work

Bassnectar’s official Bass Center recap names Melt Creative among the visual artists whose original work premiered as part of the event’s multimedia production.

2016
Press event / Photos & video

Ozzfest Meets Knotfest at the Hollywood Palladium

Independent photographs and complete video coverage preserve the invitation-only announcement and press conference inside the Hollywood Palladium, where MELT created custom 360-degree mapped environments for SGE.

2016
Industry interview / CHAUVET Professional

Daniel Bouchard on Building Video Wall Designs

Life in Color production director Daniel Bouchard directly credits Morgan Lavery and the Melt Creative team for developing the Paint Factory’s touring visual content and masked video system.

2016
Tour feature / Insomniac

Flosstradamus Builds the Hi-Def Youth Bunker

Insomniac focuses on the immersive military and post-apocalyptic Bunker stage at the center of the Hi-Def Youth Tour, where MELT worked under Immanent’s creative direction to develop environmental visual looks.

2016
Concert review / Seattle Music News

Galantis Brings Louder Harder Better to Seattle

A review of the exact North American tour describes the Seafox imagery, LED-screen content, live production, and complete audiovisual experience supported by MELT’s custom content, camera feeds, timecode, and touring VJ operation.

2016
Official event recap / TechCrunch

Highlights From Disrupt San Francisco

TechCrunch’s official recap documents the five-day Pier 48 conference, its stages, speakers, Startup Battlefield, and visual event environment supported by MELT’s show content and live operation.

2015
Industry news / PLSN

Adventure Club Goes Rogue With Chauvet Professional

A production-focused look at the When Darkness Falls tour’s lighting, scenic system, and custom visual world.

2015
Artist feature / LA Weekly

Datsik Prepares the Vortex

LA Weekly’s feature on the Vortex tour and the immersive show design surrounding Datsik’s live performance.

2015
Event coverage / Vice

Kaskade, Steve Aoki, and A-Trak Rev Their Engines for the Indy 500

Coverage of the exact Indy 500 Snake Pit lineup accompanied by MELT’s custom visual loops, sponsor content, and live stage media.

2014
Festival news / Billboard

Life in Color Announces World Tour

Billboard coverage of Life in Color’s expansion and touring festival world, featuring MELT’s main-stage visual design and architectural mapping work.

2014
Festival coverage / Loudwire

Knotfest 2014

Coverage of the Slipknot-led festival where MELT created architectural mapping content for the event environment.

2014
Culture / The Outsider

VJs: The Ghosts Behind Our Visual Journey

A feature on the artists and operators shaping the visual layer of live music culture.

2014
Concert review / Houston Press

The Crystal Method at Stereo Live

Houston Press identifies Morgan Lavery / Infinight Productions and directly credits him with the live visuals for The Crystal Method’s Stereo Live performance.

2013
Recurring editorial / DJ Mag Canada

Superstar VJs: The Future Is Visual

Through Future Visual, Morgan Lavery helped produce and write the recurring “Superstar VJs” column for DJ Mag Canada, covering VJ culture, live visuals, stage media, and the artists shaping electronic music’s visual world. This recovered page follows VJ Infinight and the Visual Jedi creating custom festival visuals for Dash Berlin, Borgore, Cedric Gervais, and Krafty Kuts across four Miami stages.

DJ Mag Canada Superstar VJs article page titled The Future Is Visual
2013
Production feature / Direct interview

Inside Morgan Lavery’s Cream Machine

Live Design identifies the touring stage as Morgan Lavery’s concept and interviews him about its physical construction, dimensional visual worlds, LED system, and road-ready design.

2012
Tour announcement / Under the Gun Review

Borgore Announces The Cream Machine

Early coverage of Borgore’s custom Cream Machine stage design and the tour built around it. PLSN’s follow-up coverage directly identifies the truck as a concept by VJ Morgan Lavery, owner of Infinight Productions, and quotes him on the road-ready stage build.

2012
Contemporary event report / Burning Man

Carl Cox Draws Burning Man to Opulent Temple

Opulent Temple’s official lineup and Ralph Lawson’s first-person report document Carl Cox’s Friday-night set as Burning Man 2012’s peak musical draw. Morgan Lavery, performing as VJ Infinight, created and operated the live visuals across the stage’s twin projection surfaces.

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