Humanji

Humanji is a project that involves the creation and performance of an album by Starkbravado alongside a physical creation and performance choreographed by Candela Murillo.
 

How i work
a place where humans exist as primitive, instinct-driven creatures. Inspired conceptually by Jumanji, the album reimagines the idea as Humanji: instead of exotic animals, humans themselves inhabit a raw, shadowed landscape, struggling, surviving, and navigating purely through instinct.

The music reflects this abstract and dark vision through experimental sound design and immersive textures. I combined electronic and analog production techniques, layering distorted synths, deep drones, and fragmented rhythms to evoke a sense of unease and subterranean tension. Live vocals were integrated as another instrument, often haunting, guttural, or ethereal, enhancing the visceral, human presence within the darkness.

The compositions explore the boundary between control and chaos, mirroring the characters’ primitive instincts and the blindness that forces them to rely on intuition rather than sight.

Through abstract structures, live performance, and a mix of analog warmth with digital manipulation, the music transforms the stage into an immersive, almost primeval ecosystem, a Humanji where darkness is alive, and the humans themselves become the wild.

HUMANJI by Candela Murillo and Starkbravado

at Nieuwe Vide Haarlem

Performers:

Jefte Tante

Anna Riley-Shepard

Candela Murillo

Arturo Vargas

Rebecca Lillich Krüger

Roberta Maimone