Taylor Swift: 1989 World Tour
Taylor Swift’s LED dress and 12 dancer suits, each wirelessly controlled from the lighting desk. The dress now lives in the Country Music Hall of Fame.
- Client
- Taylor Swift / Asher Levine
- Company
- Smooth Technology
- Role
- Lead software & firmware architect and developer; firmware and RF design
- Disciplines
- Stage & Live Production, Electronics & Connected Products
With Asher Levine, we built Taylor Swift’s LED dress and 12 LED suits for her dancers on the 1989 World Tour.
Every outfit was individually controlled over DMX through a custom wireless transmitter and receiver system driven by the lighting board, so the costumes stayed perfectly in sync with the rest of the light show. All of the hardware and software was custom.
Taylor’s dress now resides at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville. We also built the motorcycle helmets for the Bad Blood music video, one of the most viewed videos on YouTube with over a billion views.
