1 00:00:01,091 --> 00:00:02,221 - WOMAN: What is light? 2 00:00:06,847 --> 00:00:08,007 Who controls light? 3 00:00:23,822 --> 00:00:27,412 - MAN: You are, at the end of the day, playing an instrument 4 00:00:27,743 --> 00:00:30,373 and it just happens to be a computer and it controls lights. 5 00:00:37,294 --> 00:00:38,884 - WOMAN: Who is Gabe Fraboni? 6 00:00:45,218 --> 00:00:46,548 Who is Martin Garrix? 7 00:00:48,263 --> 00:00:49,853 - MARTIN: Gabe and I have been pushing each other 8 00:00:49,932 --> 00:00:51,982 from the moment we started working with each other. 9 00:00:52,058 --> 00:00:55,018 And he knows how I think and I know how he thinks 10 00:00:55,604 --> 00:00:57,194 to a certain level because he's a genius. 11 00:01:01,944 --> 00:01:06,494 - MAN 1: And intro starts in three, two, one. 12 00:01:27,011 --> 00:01:30,261 - GABE: I've been working with Martin for three years now and... 13 00:01:30,723 --> 00:01:32,853 his energy is really contagious. 14 00:01:33,059 --> 00:01:36,899 It's kinda like this atmosphere we built of challenging each other. 15 00:01:37,479 --> 00:01:39,019 That's how we evolve. 16 00:01:40,024 --> 00:01:43,574 So from here, we're going to throw our entire show and start from scratch. 17 00:01:45,821 --> 00:01:48,531 - We're going to introduce a complete new show during Amsterdam Dance Event. 18 00:01:48,615 --> 00:01:50,365 New visuals, new lights... 19 00:01:50,450 --> 00:01:53,660 completely redesigned and... it's wild. 20 00:01:54,538 --> 00:01:58,458 - GABE: To enhance the music is to take what we are hearing sonically 21 00:01:58,542 --> 00:02:00,672 and turn it into something tangible. 22 00:02:04,506 --> 00:02:07,466 It's kind of learning to blend technology with art. 23 00:02:08,134 --> 00:02:11,684 It's how to manipulate numbers to get something gorgeous. 24 00:02:15,517 --> 00:02:16,637 All right, boys, so... 25 00:02:17,269 --> 00:02:19,479 I wanna listen to this song and I wanna figure out... 26 00:02:20,064 --> 00:02:21,314 what we are trying to communicate. 27 00:02:32,910 --> 00:02:35,750 Yeah, I feel like it wants to be something that bounces, like, bup-bup-bup! 28 00:02:36,872 --> 00:02:40,332 But also it needs to have some elements that kind of slash through you. 29 00:02:41,585 --> 00:02:44,455 It's like, it's not like this is the drop cue the whole time. 30 00:02:44,964 --> 00:02:46,214 It's only happening when the little... 31 00:02:49,217 --> 00:02:51,137 - BERT: Well, he's definitely a crazy person. 32 00:02:52,554 --> 00:02:56,104 Everybody's like, it might be something that's programmed and it happens. 33 00:02:56,516 --> 00:02:59,476 That it's not Gabe that's doing it live at the moment. 34 00:03:00,104 --> 00:03:01,314 Nobody does that. 35 00:03:01,396 --> 00:03:03,316 - You will never ever see the same show twice 36 00:03:03,398 --> 00:03:05,478 because it's always freestyle from my side, 37 00:03:05,567 --> 00:03:06,937 free style from Gabe's side. 38 00:03:07,111 --> 00:03:08,531 It's a crazy team. 39 00:03:10,072 --> 00:03:12,202 - LORENZO: It's important that we maintained 40 00:03:12,282 --> 00:03:14,282 this ability that gives Marty the freedom 41 00:03:14,367 --> 00:03:16,537 to play whatever he wants in whatever order he wants. 42 00:03:16,620 --> 00:03:19,920 So, we programed and designed a visual that lighting looks 43 00:03:19,999 --> 00:03:22,209 to create a world for each song. 44 00:03:22,417 --> 00:03:24,417 and then we improvise within that world. 45 00:03:29,257 --> 00:03:30,377 - GABE: I've known since I was six years old 46 00:03:30,467 --> 00:03:31,757 that this is what I wanted to do. 47 00:03:33,762 --> 00:03:34,892 I was in a giant stadium... 48 00:03:36,098 --> 00:03:37,638 and my dad was music producer 49 00:03:37,724 --> 00:03:39,814 on the Rolling Stones Bridges to Babylon tour. 50 00:03:42,104 --> 00:03:45,904 Patrick Gorgio for ZLD and I... 51 00:03:46,150 --> 00:03:48,940 remember walking up to him and essentially asking him like, 52 00:03:49,319 --> 00:03:50,569 what do you do? 53 00:03:51,530 --> 00:03:52,870 He let me push one of the buttons 54 00:03:52,948 --> 00:03:55,158 and, like, the whole place was lit up with strobe lights. 55 00:03:56,535 --> 00:03:59,865 I was, like, "Oh, this is [bleep] cool!" 56 00:04:02,082 --> 00:04:06,002 - GREG: His mind is moving at an unbelievably accelerated pace... 57 00:04:06,336 --> 00:04:11,296 And so he always has to be doing something new, trying something new, 58 00:04:11,383 --> 00:04:15,473 because Gabe is unapologetically a perfectionist 59 00:04:15,554 --> 00:04:19,104 and he's gonna be his worst own enemy at the end of the day. 60 00:04:19,391 --> 00:04:21,191 We are not cue stacking anything right now. 61 00:04:21,351 --> 00:04:22,731 - Fine. - It's four o'clock in the mor-- 62 00:04:22,811 --> 00:04:24,771 He can go until six o'clock in the afternoon. 63 00:04:24,855 --> 00:04:26,435 - Let's move. - OK. 64 00:04:26,523 --> 00:04:28,983 - Ideas not... specifics" - Yeah, yeah, cool. That's all right. 65 00:04:29,068 --> 00:04:31,438 - He's got so many ideas... 66 00:04:32,571 --> 00:04:34,361 set in stone for himself. 67 00:04:34,740 --> 00:04:39,200 The biggest thing is how to kind of weave in and out of all those big ideas. 68 00:04:39,578 --> 00:04:40,948 - GABE: This is how we've always done it. 69 00:04:41,038 --> 00:04:41,998 - GREG: A hundred percent. All right, cool. 70 00:04:42,081 --> 00:04:43,871 So let's keep jamming. Keep jamming. 71 00:04:48,670 --> 00:04:51,010 - GABE: It's something I realized really heavily last night 72 00:04:51,464 --> 00:04:54,594 when Greg was just playing music and I was just running lasers... 73 00:04:55,301 --> 00:04:59,681 I had completely shed that kind of self-consciousness and I was 74 00:04:59,848 --> 00:05:03,598 just like, "Trust yourself and trust your instinct and just do it." 75 00:05:05,020 --> 00:05:08,820 Sometimes it takes another person to remind me that I'm capable of that. 76 00:05:08,899 --> 00:05:12,399 And... my older brother's mentally handicapped 77 00:05:12,485 --> 00:05:14,485 and he doesn't ever really speak his emotions, 78 00:05:14,571 --> 00:05:15,741 like, really at all. 79 00:05:16,573 --> 00:05:19,493 GABE - MATTEO 80 00:05:21,536 --> 00:05:25,786 The only way to communicate really with Matteo is on an energy level. 81 00:05:28,002 --> 00:05:31,512 You have to feel his aura, you have to understand his energy 82 00:05:32,131 --> 00:05:33,551 to know where he's at. 83 00:05:34,216 --> 00:05:38,096 And that for me, I realized across my entire life 84 00:05:38,262 --> 00:05:40,352 but specifically in my art form is... 85 00:05:40,848 --> 00:05:44,808 I've been taught by him... because I'm feeling the music. 86 00:05:48,689 --> 00:05:49,819 You know, I listen to a song 87 00:05:49,898 --> 00:05:52,648 and that song immediately, the aesthetic and the texture, 88 00:05:52,734 --> 00:05:54,074 and everything that I'm trying to accomplish... 89 00:05:54,736 --> 00:05:56,156 kind of just clicks. 90 00:06:07,749 --> 00:06:08,789 That seems good, right? 91 00:06:10,085 --> 00:06:12,665 If we turn the lasers off and do the build with the spikeys... 92 00:06:12,754 --> 00:06:15,304 then when this comes back in, it's got impact again. 93 00:06:15,382 --> 00:06:17,972 - Yeah, we love this routine that it didn't go to the... 94 00:06:18,052 --> 00:06:19,092 - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 95 00:06:19,178 --> 00:06:20,678 - This is wicked. - 'Cause this is better 96 00:06:20,762 --> 00:06:22,642 and it wouldn't be too busy doing this on... 97 00:06:25,059 --> 00:06:25,889 Cue. 98 00:06:25,976 --> 00:06:27,556 - MAN: I don't wanna be on stage during the show. 99 00:06:27,895 --> 00:06:30,685 - GABE: What we do with our time is we try and have the sensory overload... 100 00:06:30,772 --> 00:06:33,532 portions, but then we try and have these beautiful moments. 101 00:06:36,444 --> 00:06:37,784 - MARTIN: He would tell me when... 102 00:06:37,863 --> 00:06:40,323 this felt awkward during the show, fix it for next time. 103 00:06:40,615 --> 00:06:44,325 And I would tell him if there's a wrong color or a mistake and... 104 00:06:44,786 --> 00:06:47,036 that honesty pushes us both. 105 00:06:47,539 --> 00:06:51,539 We want people to go home after the show not being able to sleep. 106 00:06:59,551 --> 00:07:01,101 - GABE: I wanted to always be perfect. 107 00:07:02,470 --> 00:07:04,270 And it's not ever perfect... 108 00:07:05,557 --> 00:07:06,847 but that's my job. 109 00:07:07,642 --> 00:07:10,692 Find a way to bring beauty into this chaos. 110 00:07:12,356 --> 00:07:14,066 ♪ Make up your mind and make up it soon ♪ 111 00:07:27,454 --> 00:07:29,464 - MAN: Everybody go! 112 00:07:54,522 --> 00:07:56,482 - GABE: When you have that perfect storm 113 00:07:56,566 --> 00:07:59,316 of possibility of working with an artist 114 00:07:59,403 --> 00:08:02,413 who is as big as he is, who has an understanding 115 00:08:02,656 --> 00:08:05,776 of how much value the production has to a show, 116 00:08:05,867 --> 00:08:09,577 that's when really, truly groundbreaking amazing things can happen.