Sydney-based creative collective Toby & Pete creates ‘Infinity Prism’ for music producer Flume
Sydney based creative collective, Toby & Pete has recently designed and built the Flume Infinity Prism and supporting visuals for the major Australian and International electronic music producer – Flume.
Says Toby Pike, Toby & Pete co-founder: “Flume is an international phenomenon. Rolling Stone magazine called his first album, ‘scarily close to perfect’. So when Flume’s record label, Future Classic, contacted us to say they were looking for designers to create a visual icon for the artist that could become as unique and as spectacular as the music he produced, we were excited to say the least.”
The Infinity Prism and accompanying multi screen visuals have been the centrepiece of the ARIA and iTunes chart topping artist’s sell out headline tour, Splendour In The Grass, Triple J’s One Night Stand live TV event, and recent tours of Europe.
The six sided Infinity Prism took three months to design and build utilising Toby & 
Pete’s in-house team of design, electronic, software, interactive, modeling, live action, CG and motion graphics specialists drawing inspiration from liquids, metals, and crystals.
Says Pete Stopniak, Toby & Pete co-founder: “The team also created more than two hours of organic, synthetic and electronic visuals that react and 
interact with Flume’s music live on stage and on the show’s multiple video screens to create the ultimate visual spectacle to complement Flume’s iconic sound design.”
As a result, the show has garnered the prestigious Best Live Act award at the 2013 InTheMix
Awards.
Says Harley Streten 
(Flume): “The Toby & Pete crew have done such an amazing job pulling it all together, not only do I have an Infinity Prism, but I also have an amazing platform which allows me to connect with the crowd on a visual level. We feel we’ve only just cracked the surface of what’s possible; we’re already making plans for what’s to come in future shows.”
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Nice piece. Saw it at the brisbane river stage and looked amazing.
AMAZING
Well done Toby, Pete and co. Another impressive string to your bow.
Awesome!
Great stuff. No limits, only endless possibilities.
I experienced this at Festival Hall, blew my mind!
Oh yes, forget Lennon, McCartney, Dylan, Miles and even the Finn brothers. The next perfect piece of popular music is comin’ from our man Flume and his ‘visual icon’. Because what’s music without a visual icon? Oh, that’s right, it’s music.
All hail the visual icon. Can’t you just see young musicians proudly devoting thousands of ‘finger-bleeding’ hours, not to their instruments, but to their visual icons. In the future, we’ll share tales of the then-famous musicians who dragged themselves out of the gutter to dominate the airwaves on the back of their extraordinary gift – visual icons. All the props in the world must go to Flume for this seminal work.
Shut up dad, you’re drunk.
Flume’s headline show sold out before anyone had even seen the “visual icon”. 40,000 Australian fans purchased tickets to his shows based on hearing his music alone. Nice one Joe.
Bravo, boys.
Looks bloody amazing hyping up a crowd of thousands.
Well done.
Feel free to switch the words ‘visual icon’ with ‘synthesizer’ or ‘decks’ and apply the thesis to all the crap music you like, you little snot-nosed ignoramuses.
Not sure where this article bagged more traditional forms of music or put shit on guitarists in general? It is more giving credit to the Toby & Pete team who started out a short time ago as two retouchers and have built an impressive collective, doing great work across a lot of different media, including this. Ease up, mate. You don’t like the music, change the channel, or as it seems, watch it change around you.
Give the guy a break Joe, without the lights, visual FX, and samples he’s just a guy standing behind a table
All those artists you mentioned used visual icons in their day, Flume’s just happens to be the cutting edge of the day. I haven’t seen his show but I was lucky to see Daft Punk when they toured the pyramid, and that thing blew my mind. This appears to be in a similar realm.
Well done boys.
yay for Pete and Toby!
An independent agency showing those multinational dinosaurs how creative should be done.
watch out for the meteorite T-rex!
Amazing work guys – love it