Anyma Reveals How He Built AEDEN for Coachella 2026 Using Google Gemini AI

Anyma just pulled back the curtain on one of the most ambitious electronic music productions in recent memory.
Anyma has released a short documentary in collaboration with Google Gemini that tracks the build of his ÆDEN show from concept to Coachella Mainstage, capturing the full audiovisual ambition behind the project. The film is cinematic, intentional, and gives the clearest picture yet of how ÆDEN actually came to life. Spotify

What Is ÆDEN?
ÆDEN was designed as a large-scale digital renaissance, built around the collision of ancient mythology and futuristic digital storytelling. Characters, narrative, immersive visual environments, and a fully synchronized musical experience were all part of the concept from the beginning. Anyma described the core challenge simply: he could not find any existing visual reference that connected ancient mythology with digital technology in the way he imagined, so he had to build an entirely new visual language from scratch.

AI as a Tool, Not the Artist
To turn his abstract ideas into concrete visuals, Anyma turned to Google Gemini, using the generative tool to refine early concepts and move through thousands of iterations of form, angle, and perspective. The goal was never to let AI dictate the final vision, but to develop a precise enough plan that his human collaborators could execute it. Ticketmaster

In his own words: "Gemini became a useful tool in that process, helping turn my influences from classical art and ancient texts into images that could start a conversation with myself and with the collaborators. The technology helped us have a precise plan." Ticketmaster

Once that plan was set, the tools changed completely. That high-tech plan was placed back into human hands, with choreographers, dancers, and real human movement taking over from the algorithms. Anyma was clear that grounding the digital figures in real human movement was essential to making the whole concept feel alive rather than cold. Ticketmaster
Weekend 1 Was Cancelled. Weekend 2 Made History.

On the Friday night of Coachella's first weekend, high winds gusting over 35 mph made it impossible to safely erect the towering pillars, screens, and rigging that Anyma had spent a full year building. The show was cancelled minutes before it was due to begin. Ticketmaster

Weekend 2 on April 17 was a different story entirely. Anyma took the Mainstage in white, opening with digital pillars collapsing and rising again. Over the course of the show, 125,000 people watched a character reminiscent of Michelangelo's David smash through digital columns, a Medusa-like figure moving in perfect sync with every beat, and humanoid beings woven from tree roots flexing in hypnotic patterns. Ticketmaster

Special guests LISA, Joji, Matt Bellamy of Muse, and Swae Lee all appeared throughout the set. The show closed with Joji performing Beautiful live on stage while his image appeared as a stone statue on the screens behind him.

What Comes Next for ÆDEN
Coachella 2026 marks one of the most technically ambitious electronic Mainstage productions of recent years, and ÆDEN is far from finished. Anyma has taken the show on a world tour, with stops in London and cities across the globe still to come. Spotify
The documentary is out now on YouTube. It is five minutes long and worth every second.