Ye Vultures Listening Experience San Francisco

For the March 12, 2024 ¥$ / Vultures Listening Experience at Chase Center in San Francisco, featuring ¥$, the collaborative project from Ye, formerly Kanye West, and Ty Dolla $ign, MELT was brought in by InSync Productions as a master projectionist, visual artist, and media-server operator for a one-night arena system built around a circular translucent fabric screen.

The centerpiece was a large hanging cylindrical scrim suspended over the floor. Four projector positions, placed around the room at north, south, east, and west, were blended into the fabric so the screen could hold live camera magnification, Vultures visuals, and split-layout compositions from multiple angles.

The transparency of the fabric became part of the look. Camera feeds and visual content could sit on opposite sides of the cylinder, while light and motion bled through the material just enough to create layered ghost images across the room. Instead of treating the scrim like a flat surface, the system used its translucency and circular geometry as part of the show design.

MELT's role covered projector alignment, blend tuning, Resolume playback, live layout support, and show-day operation. Internal production notes describe the signal path as Resolume straight to the projectors, with four hanging stacks on truss and the media-server position living near the hockey goal area.

Project facts

Event: ¥$ / Vultures Listening Experience
Artists: ¥$ — Ye, formerly Kanye West, and Ty Dolla $ign
Venue: Chase Center, San Francisco
Date: March 12, 2024
Production: InSync Productions, LLC
MELT role: Master projectionist, visual artist, media-server operator
System: Four projector positions, circular translucent fabric scrim, Resolume playback, live IMAG layouts

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RIFF Magazine coverage ↗ABC7 San Francisco ↗SF Station event listing ↗Setlist.fm event record ↗

Circular scrim, four-projector blend, live IMAG

Live IMAG and visual content wrapping the translucent circular scrim from one arena angle.

Alternate layout pass showing the live camera image and projected visual layers bleeding through the fabric.

Behind-the-scenes walkthrough of the server position, playback workstation, and arena setup before showtime.

Project coverage

A San Francisco Vultures listening event

Public coverage confirms the event, date, venue, and artists. MELT's project record documents the behind-the-scenes projection role and circular scrim system used inside Chase Center.

Circular scrim at Chase Center before the Vultures Listening Experience — Image: MELT project archive

RIFF Magazine · March 2024SF Vultures listening party coverage

RIFF covered Ye and Ty Dolla $ign at Chase Center on March 12, 2024, documenting the San Francisco stop of the listening experience run.

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Yeezy Vultures Listening Experience confirmation screen for Chase Center — Image: MELT project archive

ABC7 San Francisco · March 13, 2024Local recap from Chase Center

ABC7 reported on the Chase Center listening party and the Vultures 1 album context around the San Francisco event.

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Circular fabric projection surface viewed from the Chase Center floor — Image: MELT project archive

SF Station · Event listingEvent listing and venue details

The local listing records the ¥$ Vultures Listening Experience with Ye and Ty Dolla $ign at Chase Center on Tuesday, March 12, 2024.

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Public event photo references: outside photo coverage from SFGATE, the San Francisco Chronicle, and A View From My Seat shows additional audience and projection-screen views of the Chase Center event. Those images remain with their respective publishers, photographers, and contributors, so MELT links to them rather than rehosting them here.

Circular scrim, four-projector blend, live IMAG

A San Francisco Vultures listening event

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