Project
The project of Hanna Haaslahti Captured is a participatory installation, which captures your face and creates a new identity for you in a collective scenario taking place in virtual world.
Captured enables people to step into virtual world as a digital double, making them actors and spectators in the same time. The doubles take different roles in a narrative simulation modeling unpredictable moods of human crowd behavior.
Which role will you take on? The bully, the target or the bystander? And what does it say about your primal instincts in watching aggressive social behaviour?
Music
The music expresses interactively the actions of the captured Avatars. The piano is the central ingredient of the orchestration, used in its conventional way, but also by recording of sympathetic resonances.
Each avatar carries around her own piano resonance, while in the peaceful walking state. Each resonance is follows its avatar while collectively composes a wall of sound made out an interwoven network of small. When violence starts, each action is depicted by the frantic gestures of a small music ensemble: piano clusters, drum rolls, cymbal hits, bass drum kicks. Music gestures and avatars gestures are directly interconnected as one gesture.
Silbersalz – International Science & Media Festival, 15.-19. September 2021, Halle, Germany
Expanded/BFI London Film Festival, 6.-17. October 2021, London, UK
CPH:DOX festical 23. March – 3. April 2022, Copenhagen
Credits:
Lead Artist: Hanna Haaslahti
Lead Developers: Mike Robbins, Alap Parikh, Tyler Henry
Capture Station Design and Construction: Panu Heikkilä
Interactive Music Composition: Phivos-Angelos Kollias
“Hello World” music track by Jamie Perera / reorchestrated by Kollias
Producer: Marko Tandefelt
Co-Producer: Harmke Heezen
Produced by Fantomatico and High Road Stories
