LOUIS WALTERS

Video design lead and live operator for David Guetta’s global touring shows between 2011–2019, delivering hundreds of performances across major festivals and arena venues worldwide.

The visual system ran entirely in real time, with no fixed setlist or timecode, allowing the show to respond dynamically to the music, atmosphere and energy of the crowd.

All visuals were pixel to pixel accurate - mapped precisely to the stage architecture using Pilot Technologies bespoke software, enabling the screens to run at 100% brightness with no scaling. The result was a neon vector-style visual language, with each scene forming a new three-dimensional environment that David performed within.

Together, the visuals, lasers and stage architecture behaved as a reactive visual instrument, transforming each performance into a unique live experience.

The show’s visual language drew directly from the industrial and technological landscape of Detroit, the city where techno first emerged. Inspired by its factories, infrastructure and futuristic mythology, the visuals combined laser architecture, and generative graphics to evoke a retro-futurist vision of the industrial city.

Video and laser systems were designed as a unified spatial instrument, translating the mechanical rhythms and synthetic textures of Cybotron’s music into three-dimensional structures of light that expanded beyond the stage and into the audience space.

The entire show was performed live with no timecode. Audio stems were split from the performance and sent to FOH, driving the visuals and lasers in real time so the system responded dynamically to the music.

The result was an immersive environment connecting the machine-driven origins of techno with a visual language rooted in Detroit’s technological era.

The installation featured a sculptural wall of 51 stacked CRT monitors, each stack playing a bespoke edit created from Alpine’s original archival film. Working from original archive material, we cut and restored the footage, developed rhythmic sequences, and created treatments that matched the tactile, analogue aesthetic of the installation.

The final edits formed an atmospheric backdrop to the display, helping to position the cars within Alpine’s broader design and motorsport lineage.

The finished piece became a cinematic backdrop to the stand: analogue, tactile and immersed in Alpine’s legacy.

Vehicles showcased:
• The debut of the A390
• The A441 C — 1975 prototype Le Mans racer
• The A110 Ex-Works Berlinette — winner of the 1973 Rallye du Maroc

Tokinokawa is a six-screen and multichannel audio-visual installation produced by UK-based media collective The Light Surgeons. Commissioned by the BFI, it’s part of a larger performing music and cinema collaboration, Tracing the Circle, inspired by new restorations of some of the earliest moving images of Japan, preserved at the BFI National Archive and dating back to 1902.

Camera Director & Vision Mixer working across international touring shows and large-scale music festivals.

I direct and cut live multi-camera systems for IMAG and screen content, maintaining a consistent visual language across varying venues, lighting conditions and show formats.

I regularly work within touring systems designed by Toby Vogal, integrating into established setups and delivering confident, reliable live cuts under pressure.

With a background in live show video design and operation, I bring a strong screen-first perspective to camera direction; understanding not just how to cut, but how the content translates to the audience in real time.