Violet Disruption: DIVA

DIVA is an ambisonic audio visual installation and takeover of the Finnish opera house.

It floods the auditorium with electronic music, that collides the hauntingly beautiful worlds of operatic divas of the past together with driven and psychedelic electronic dance music. A summoning of DIVA power.

Our DIVA then hosts the glorious CircOpera at the Finnish opera house. An exciting main stage operatic performance bringing the worlds of circus, dance and opera together.

We worked with Composer and Lead Artist Stephanie Singer to bring Violet, our DIVA, to life. Working in Unreal Engine, Character Creator and numerous other softwares we built and textured the character, including her costume changes and reinventions throughout the piece, and used ARKit Facial Capture and VIVE Motion Trackers to generate synchronised motion capture data combined from singers, dancers and aerialists.

This data was then used to produce the ten-minute ‘Overture’ sequence used at the start of the Cirqopera production, as well as two interactive Foyer installations where audiences can use custom software to interact with our host.

Client:
Finnish National Opera & Ballet
Bittersuite

Location:
Finnish National Opera, Helsinki, 2022

Services:
Video & Projection Design
Technical Consultancy
Content Creation
Equipment Hire

Team:
Video Designer: Ian William Galloway
Systems Designer: Salvador Bettencourt Ávila
Animator: Rafael Vartanian
Animator: Jachym Bouzek
Animator: Sophie Bramley
Animator: Rena Iizawa
Editor: Jacob Krumpolc
Software Engineer: Daberechi Ukoha-Kalu

Production Credits:
Composer: Stephanie Singer
Creative Consultant: Gideon Berger
Sound Designer & Producer: Amanda Mayo
Character Designer: Freyja Sewell
Choreographer: David Andrew Reid

Photos:
© Mesmer / Bittersuite