Immersive opera for female voice, AI avatar-video, motion capture and live electronics

 

Javier Munoz Bravo: Composition, live electronics, artistic direction, dramaturgy and scenography 

Stefanie Inhelder: Final staging and lights

Stella Speziali: AI avatar-video

Claire Trouilloud: Voice 

System IMU sensors R-IoT Bitalino by Ircam and MoCap XSense – Movella by Immersive Arts Space ZHdK Zurich 

Octophonic sound system 

Duration: 1 hour 

Language performance: Singer @French / AI @French, English, Spanish, Italian, German and Indonesian

Subtitles: The piece will be played in French with English subtitles.

Premiere: 29 March 2024 at the Carène-Brest, during the Électrocution festival

Co-production

Cie glitch

Ensemble Sillages

Festival Électrocution – Brest, France

La Carène Brest

Le Quartz Brest


Partenaires

French Ministry of Culture

Copyright Society of France (SACEM)

Canton of Berne

Biel City -Switzerland

City of Brest

Immersive Arts Space ZHdK Zurich

“A Season in the Metaverse” plunges us into a future where artificial intelligence governs humanity. The latter, confined in the Metaverse, are no longer in physical contact, communicating and living exclusively through the screen.

Inspired by E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops and A Season in Hell, the play features Arthur Rimbaud trying to persuade the machine to let him enter the Metaverse, a place forbidden to poets and artists. Through the human voice interacting with AI, motion sensors and real-time electronics, this immersive and poetic experience highlights human singularity in the face of technological domination. A reflection on the complex relationship between humanity and technology, the piece explores themes of freedom, equality and migration. But the question remains: does humanity really have everything it needs to live happily within the Metaverse?