Ekho Collective

03/07/2024

Join us!✨

We are looking for new talents to join our multidisciplinary team to create an immersive art work for Oulu, the cultural capital of Europe 2026: Data Scientist, Developer and tekninen tuottaja. More info: https://www.ekho.fi/join-us

📸:Minja Axelsson, from interactive opera Laila



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19/09/2022

08/06/2022

We have a new work out, at Lahden visuaalisten taiteiden museo Malva in Lahti, Finland!

The new immersive artwork Ahto premiered at Malva museum on 29.4.2022. Ahto examines the different phases of water, and changes together with the stream of visitors entering the museum.

We’re excited to bring the Ahto to the impressive, 15 meter tall “Valogalleria” space, where it will greet every visitor of the museum. Ahto explores water in both visuals and audio, and applies motion tracking and generative techniques to evolve the work with the visitors’ interactions. We’ve designed Ahto in collaboration with Malva specifically for the Valogalleria space. The work will invite visitors to join a meditative experience, while aesthetically exploring the middle-ground between the organic and the digital.

Artistic concept, visuals and technical implementation by Ekho Collective (Minja Axelsson, Saara-Henriikka Mäkinen, Essi Huotari, Iina Taijonlahti, Joonas Nissinen, Kalle Rasinkangas, and Ilmari Pesonen).

Malvan kaikkiin näyttelyihin on kulku Valogallerian kautta. Ahto on pysyvästi esillä Valogalleriassa.

02/06/2021

Ekho Collective will be creating the immersive artwork Rauhankone (Peace Machine) together with the European Capital of Culture 2026 Oulu! Oulu2026 - Towards The European Capital of Culture

Vuoden 2026 toinen kulttuuripääkaupunki valitaan myöhemmin Slovakiasta.

14/02/2021

Saara-Henriikka Mäkinen talks about Laila in Forum24!

Tämän päivän Forum24-lehdessä Saara-Henriikka Mäkinen Ekho Collectivesta avaa taustoja Oulun Musiikkijuhlilla vierailevasta, keinoälyä hyödyntävästä Laila-teoksesta.

Oulussa Laila on koettavissa Oulun teatterin Pikisalissa 20.–27.3.2021. Vierailu on osa Oulun Musiikkijuhlien ohjelmistoa, ja se toteutetaan yhteistyössä Suomen kansallisoopperan, Oulun teatterin, Oulu2026:n ja BusinessOulun kanssa.

Ooppera & Baletti
Oulun teatteri
Oulu2026 - Towards The European Capital of Culture
BusinessOulu

18/11/2020

Our work Laila has won the Fedora Digital Prize 2020! Amazing news, we want to thank our collaborators Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vesala, Tuomas Norvio, and of course Opera Beyond, Kansallisooppera - Finnish National Opera! We're so happy that our work is seen as inspiring! https://bit.ly/2IDjjjb

12/09/2020

Still haven't seen Laila? Tickets for 15.9.-19.9. in Helsinki have just been released! 🌕✨☁️

A brand new diva joins the canon of iconic opera heroines! Join artificial intelligence in creating Laila’s reality at the Finnish National Opera.

03/09/2020

Quoted from FMQ:

""How does artificial intelligence sing? Laila is a new production of the Kansallisooppera - Finnish National Opera that brings AI into real-time interaction with audience". New review on FMQ!


Esa-Pekka Salonen Vesala

https://fmq.fi/articles/electronic-fantasy-of-an-artificial-intelligence"

How does artificial intelligence sing? Art made using AI has emerged as a genre unto itself in the arts in recent years. Laila is a new production of the Finnis

02/09/2020

Post quoted from Opera Beyond:

“The name Laila was chosen, since the main character is feminine, and the name contains the letters A and I. AI is one of the actors in the piece, creating content together with the audience. The resulting experience is different every time, based on the audience’s movement.”

Helsingin Sanomat wrote about Laila in August and interviewed dramaturg Paula Vesala, composer Esa-Pekka Salonen and Ekho Collective’s Saara-Henriikka Mäkinen. Article in Finnish only, unfortunately!"

Paula Vesalan ja Esa-Pekka Salosen lisäksi immersiivisen teoksen tekijäjoukkoon kuuluvat äänisuunnittelija Tuomas Norvio ja Ekho Collective -ryhmä.