Cabin Fever PROTOTYPE
2022Cabin Fever PROTOTYPE is a 24-hour digital artwork composed for an ensemble of voices, domestic sounds, and Zoom. Once every hour, singers softly share a dream collected from around the world, their voices emerging from long, dreamlike silences. Each hour introduces a new language, marking a different time zone.
The worldwide dreams were collected with the assistance of dream researchers around the world, including Jake Clwyd Roberts, Kelly Bulkeley, Fabiane M. Borges, Livia Diniz and Deirdre Leigh Barrett.
The project was created in collaboration with Counterpoint, the creative studio of Samuel Diggins and Tero Parviainen. Initially, the singers shaped the visual landscape themselves—covering their desktop cameras with household objects while on Zoom, casting abstract washes of color across the screen. These raw, improvised visuals later informed the generative software, which expanded on this idea to produce dynamic, algorithm-driven colour effects. Each hue corresponded to a different group of singers in a different location, transforming their presence into a shifting, dreamlike palette.
When streamed live an online chatroom accompanies the piece, allowing viewers to share their thoughts and connect with others online from anywhere in the world.
By repurposing video conferencing technology, the work invited amateur performers—many of whom had never engaged in online art-making—to explore new sonic and visual possibilities. Through this process, digital connections took on new depth, transforming distance into a shared creative experience.
Featured languages: English / Portuguese / German / Italian / Brazilian Portuguese / Spanish / French / Russian / Japanese / Filipino / Vietnamese / Hindi / Arabic / Swahili / Finnish / Czech
Online artwork
24 hours