The new Infinity open-air stage set to debut at Bonnaroo in June of 2025 isn’t just new to the music and arts festival. It’s new to the United States.

Billed as the world’s largest 360-degree, immersive sound experience, the Infinity stage technology was designed by UK-based Polygon Productions and according to Bonnaroo promoters C3 Presents, the 3D sound technology has never been showcased in North America.

Brad Parker, festival director with C3, said explaining this audio experience is challenging, but described it as the Infinity stage being to audio what the Sphere in Las Vegas is to video.

” When you go to the Sphere, you’re hearing the band kind-of how you would if you saw them in any venue, but really the visual experience is what’s driving it,” Parker said. “With the Infinity, the audio experience is what’s driving it.”

What is different about Bonnaroo’s Infinity Stage?

Parker said to think of the Infinity stage as “surround sound on steroids.”

The 3D, immersive sound, open-air concert experience developed by Polygon Productions, is set to make its U.S. debut at Bonnaroo 2025. This was a concert in Thailand and while Bonnaroo’s stage might differ slightly, the experience will be the same.

“You hear people talk a lot about 360 stages, which is simply where the artist is in the middle and the crowd is fully in a circle around them. This is really the opposite of that. The artist is on the traditional stage and the sound itself is encapsulating around you. So, at a traditional concert, the sound is all coming at you mostly from the front. It’s hitting you from one direction. 3D sound takes us to a whole other level where the sound can hit you from any direction at any movement and is going to move around from where you’re hearing it. Different pieces, whether it’s the vocal, the guitar, the drums, those are kind of going to hover around you.”

The Polygon technology has only been experienced twice. Once in Thailand and once in Saudi Arabia. Parker was able to attend the Thailand event and described it as “transformative.”

” You really get to hear things in a way that you’ve never heard heard it before,” he added. “They had everything from DJs to Mongolian throat singing groups to meditation sound baths. It’s all across the board and we’re going to look to kind of replicate some of that more experiential programming at Bonnaroo as well.”

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Which musical acts will play the new Infinity stage at Bonnaroo?

Specific performers for the Infinity stage have not yet been announced. Parker estimated a late January, early February announcement.

“This takes a little bit longer because we’re asking artists to do something they’ve never done before,” he added. “It takes a lot more explaining and a little bit more of a pitch to say, ‘Hey, you get the chance to be doing something that no other artist in the world’s really doing.’ It requires a little bit more effort from the artist’s side to do this than a normal stage performance would, so we’re actively figuring out that programming right now.”

The 3D, immersive sound, open-air concert experience developed by Polygon Productions, is set to make its U.S. debut at Bonnaroo 2025. This was a concert in Thailand and while Bonnaroo’s stage might differ slightly, the experience will be the same.

Where will the Infinity stage be at Bonnaroo?

While organizers don’t have the final layout of the festival locked in just yet, Parker did confirm the Infinity stage will be inside Centeroo and that it will not replace any of the other major stages.

Melonee Hurt covers music and music business at The Tennessean, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK — Tennessee. Reach Melonee at [email protected], on Instagram at @MelHurtWrites.

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