Collateral #2 - for performer and gamepad | 2024

Collateral #2 is part of an approach to using a video game controller as a musical instrument. On this occasion, the performer will react to a video-score that will also respond to the performer's actions depending on which buttons are being pressed. These actions will generate a live response in the form of video and sound.

This piece is focused on an object that is theoretically "innocuous" but powerful in its possibilities. This time, we are facing the present and past of a war veteran. A digital, censored, violent, and inhumane war due to its distancing nature through technology...

Is it the person pressing the buttons on the controller who controls the action? Or is it the machine, the technological object itself, that has taken control of the person?