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Revenge, love, virtual reality, and social media. In their work Bonegarden, Timo Tuhkanen uses speculative fiction and the expanded monodrama form to explore ‘trauma-porn’, or the commercialization and abuse of traumatic experiences. Told through the perspective of a woman, played by Lore Lixenberg, who in her rage discovers an online service that offers memory-infused VR experiences where the avatar of Helen Weber, a trauma victim, is used to play out the revenge fantasy of the client. This constructed multiplayer online server allows users to embody, live through, and act out experiences where they are able to commit their acts on others. In the monodrama we see Lore’s character fall into this cycle and struggle with her feeling of being torn between the abusive nature of the technology and her need for self realisation.The work has a video part and the story revolves between the stage and the video. The video part I filmed together with Hannu Karjalainen in 2013 in Helsinki and the actors in it are Anna Saksman, Heikki Räisänen, Jesse Luostarinen and Hannes Mölsä.The score is written for a poly-microtonal ensemble consisting of instruments able to play 19, 22, and 31 equally divided octaves. The coloratura mezzo-soprano vocal part is written in all 3 notation systems and shifting from one to another is indicated by a small number above the part.

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