Control is a gesture-controlled interactive video choir constituted by 16 clips each featuring mezzo-soprano Elisa Sutherland’s mouth singing to a graphic score that directly reflects the high and low of a significant stock chart from the beginning of the pandemic till present times (2020-2022). The score includes charts of typical YOLO investing strategy stocks (Gamestop, AMC) that represent an attempt of individual opportunists trying to push the change of the economy; monopolistic corporations that raise ethical concerns (Facebook, Amazon) and pharmaceutical companies that are visibly profiting from the pandemic (Pfizer, Moderna). By moving their body to the motion capturing webcam based on the choreography preassigned via machine learning (ml5.js), the audience experiences a fake sense of control of the choir--but do they really? This project is a satire against capitalism and a bitter laugh at the awkward economic state that a lot of people find themselves in post-pandemic. [p5.js sketch]

Set specific projection mapping version featuring 9 of the mouths. The physical set includes a piano, a drumhead, a suitcase, 7 paper plates, 2 balloons, a lamp stand, and the bottom of a coat rack.