Portfolio
BEN CORNELIUS
Music Director & Creative Visual Director
I’m Ben Cornelius, a 21-year-old musical director, producer, guitarist and creative visual designer based in the UK. My work focuses on building cohesive live performance systems that combine playback, musical direction, and visuals into seamless shows. Using Ableton Live, Ableset and Resolume Arena, I create structured live systems that evolve together in real time. As guitarist for Chase The Wild, I’ve also helped contribute to over 90,000 streams across all songs and platforms. Across projects with Chase The Wild, Girlhood and large-scale live events, my focus is on creating Immersive performances, bringing the Studio to the Stage
ABOUT ME
MY WORK
VISUALS
THROUGH HER EYES
PITFEEDERS
XMAS & SUMMER BALL
Xmas Ball 2025
CTW & GH
Inspired by the Bath Spa main house and ABBA Voyage-style virtual performance visuals. Green screen footage was used to capture performance, then masked and composited into structured environments, combining stylised live movement with digitally built spaces to create immersive, performance-led visuals.
Summer Ball 2026
GH
Inspired by Barbie Dreamhouse aesthetics, ABBA Voyage-style performance visuals and retro dance games like DDR and Just Dance. Green screen footage was masked, composited and built into bold performance environments, with visuals now fully linked through MIDI via Ableton and Ableset for tighter live synchronisation.
MD PERFORMANCES
CTW
@Komedia
EOY Showcase
20/5/2026
A fully connected live performance for Chase The Wild where music, visuals and lighting were designed as one system rather than separate elements. The entire show ran from a single Ableton Live playback session, with time-coded lighting, synced visuals in Resolume, and pre-produced tracks and cues all locked together. This created a continuous performance where every element evolved in real time as one unified show.
CTW
@TheCroft
Headline Show
28/2/2025
A musical direction-led live performance for Chase The Wild at The Croft in Bristol, celebrating the release of our debut EP ‘Go On Home’. The set was built from fully produced tracks arranged into live stems, with structured cues and transitions between songs designed to create a continuous performance system within MainStage. This was the last show built using MainStage, where the aim of creating a fully cohesive live experience proved challenging due to the software’s limitations and less flexible workflow. Since then, the system has been upgraded to Ableton Live for a more streamlined and reliable approach to show control, allowing for smoother transitions, tighter MD structure and a more cohesive overall performance.
GH
@Komedia
Summer Ball
26/5/2026
Created for Girlhood as a continuation and major upgrade from the Christmas Ball 2025 show, developing both the musical direction and visual system into a more refined live setup. The performance was fully MD-led, with Ableton and Ableset used to run stems, cues and MIDI-linked visual control in real time, alongside talkback microphone direction for live coordination. Inspired by Barbie Dreamhouse aesthetics, ABBA Voyage-style performance systems and retro dance games like DDR and Just Dance, the show combined structured musical direction with performance-led visuals built from green screen footage, masking and compositing, creating a tightly integrated live system where music and visuals evolved together throughout the set.
CTW & GH
@Komedia
Xmas Ball
9/12/2025
A Chase The Wild live performance as house band for Christmas Ball 2025 at Komedia Main Stage, featuring guest performers across the set. Musical direction led, the show was built from fully produced tracks arranged within MainStage, with early integration of synced visuals through Resolume Arena triggered via MIDI. A pivotal moment in my MD development, marking the first large-scale system setup, with both audio and visuals now significantly refined in later projects.