Sonic Organism

An interactive performance for participating audience.

At Theatre Academy BlackBox June 2024

experiencing the complexity of shared agency between humans and technology,
executing posthuman subjectivity

Sonic Organism is a performative experiment and a field to study digital choreography. In it I explore the performative agency of the participating audience and the methods of designing interactive movement sonification systems, through which the choreographic event unfolds.
In this human-technology entangeled, performative world, the artwork unfolds organically through an improvisational co-creation that sensitizes the human agents for inter-corporeal listening. The work invites to indulge in participatory action sensorially and corporeally. Ontologically, the artwork becomes actualized and choreographed by and with its performing audience.

Sonic Organism and its creation process is part of the doctoral research, investigating ethical and feminist practices of digital choreography.

The artistic teaM

Digital Choreography and Concept: Hanna Pajala-Assefa
Movement Sonification Design: Janne Storm
Mocap and Data Processing system Design: Aleksandar Koruga
Digital Scenography and Visualisation: Tomi Paijo

Production by: Hanna Pajala-Assefa
with research support from Helsinki University of the Arts,
in collaboration with
Sonic Move research consortium
(Aalto University, VTT and University of Eastern-Finland).

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