Announcing Hatched: Breaking through the Silence
It’s Monday, January 4, and I’m so thrilled to share the news: we’re illuminating Boston’s Iconic Hatch Shell later this month! A project commissioned by The Esplanade Association (with amazing partners and sponsors listed below!), it’s been a huge honor to create the piece over the past few months.
Read more about the project at www.esplanade.org/hatched, and stay tuned - more behind-the-scenes, partner shout-outs, viewing information, and more to come!
About Hatched: Breaking through the Silence
The projection-mapped visuals for Hatched will celebrate the many sounds that Hatch Memorial Shell performers have expressed over the facility’s impressive musical history. Finkelmeier and her team will feature geometric shapes of musical instruments as kaleidoscope pieces, human hands magically tapping, scratching, and creating beats on the surface itself, and colorful animations accentuating the Shell’s Art Deco form – all set to new music composed by Finkelmeier and recorded by local musicians. Featuring a team of predominantly female-identifying artists and directors, Hatched will bring to light a balanced pedestal, an opportunity for underrepresented communities to “break through” and share their skills, vision, and voice.
Powered by Epson laser projectors, “Hatched” will bring vibrant color and form to the inner surface of the Hatch Shell. With custom-built weather housing for the projectors, the experience presents a rare opportunity to experience projection mapping in the winter months and will bring joy no matter the New England winter weather.
THE INCREDIBLE TEAM!
photos: Aram Boghosian
Commissioning Body: Esplanade Association
Project Site: The Hatch Memorial Shell, Boston
Artist Studio: MF Dynamics
Project Partners: Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation & LuminArtz
Projector Sponsor: Epson America, Inc.
Artistic Director & Composer: Maria Finkelmeier
Technical Director: Pamela Hersch
Project Manager: Jane Long
Fabrication Specialist: Karim Badwan
Green Screen Videography: Raber Umphenour and Zy Baer of Cinematics Film Studio
Musicians: Maria Finkelmeier, Stephon Davis, Ashleigh Gordon, Francesca McNeeley, Rachel Panitch, and Kirsten Lamb
Studio Intern: Katie Medrano-Escobar
