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Transsonic (2018- )
a transmedia duo exploring sound and light
Transsonic Music is a duo project in collaboration with guitarist Nicola Hein. We were both interested in developing the idea of “light as musical materials” and question the ontology of music in the light of digital technological development in our time and the translations of music across disciplines in arts. We create site-specific light installations for each performance: Nicola takes my light information as music and interacts on his guitar; while I listen to his guitar sounds and play on my light controllers that I built for my musical expressions. It is an ongoing project where we are exploring the rich nexus between lights and sounds where they are seen as equally important and yet dialectical musical counterpoints that enrich our musical experience.
Performance at the Helicopter Project Space, the Hague
Multichannel (46-speaker system) performance at Sonic Arts Research Center,
Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Ambisonic performance at Gray Sounds Series, Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry,
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Performance History
Jun 13, 2025 Madgeburg Felicia Festival, Madeburg
Feb 27, 2025 Panke Culture, Berlin
Feb 16, 2025 Äänen Lumo, Helsinki
Nov 30, 2024. NEXT festival, Bratislava, Slovakia
Nov 3, 2024 Lokal Harmonie, Duisburg
Oct 11-12, 2024 Fluid Ontologies, Premiere, Tanzhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin
Sept 21, 2024 Pantopia festival, Spreehalle, Berlin
in collaboration with Susanne Fröhlich and four musical robots from Logos Foundation Ghent
Sept 11, 2024. Oxford University, as part of the AI and Music Conference (AIMC)
Sept 4, 2024 Ekko, Utrecht, NL, as part of the New Interface and Musical Expression (NIME) conference
Apr 27, 2024. Workshop @ Hochschule Luzern
Apr 26, 2024 WIM Werkstatt für improvisierte Musik Zürich
Apr 25, 2024 Gare du Nord
Apr 24, 2024. Artist talk @ Musik Akademie Basel
Apr 23, 2024 Hochschule Offenburg, Offenburg
Apr 17, 2024 KM28, Berlin
Aug 15- Sep 5, 2023. Uncool Residency, Poschiavo, Switzerland
June 21, 2023. Experimentik #65, THEATER IM KINO (TIK), Berlin
May 21, 2022 Tankkeller in Egnach, Egnach, Switzerland
March 16, 2022 Fridman Gallery, Experimental Intermedia, New York City
March 10, 2022 Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University
Nov 23, 2021 Sonic Anchor, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
Sept 23, 2021 Seanaps Festival, Leipzig
***commission for a new iteration for lights, relays and A.I. assisted electronics
Jan 11- Feb 27, 2021 Residency at Villa Waldberta, München
Dec 17, 2020 Infrequent Seams Streamfest, online event
May 12, 2020 Ambisonic iteration, "Gray Sound Sessions vol. 4", Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, University of
Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, US
Jan 8, 2020 12-channel spatialization, "Dodecagony", Immersion Room, Bobst Library, New York University, NY
Sept 18, 2019 NYU Waverly Labs, New York University, New York
June 12, 2019 "DC Currents", Helicopter Project Space, den Haag, the Netherlands.
Feb 9, 2019 “Space as Instrument”, 21 Market Place, Huddersfield, United Kingdom
Feb 8, 2019 Fuel Cafe Bar, Manchester, United Kingdom
Feb 7, 2019 Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Center, Queen’s University Belfast, United Kingdom.
Jan 15, 2019 Opening's concert 2019 Roze Tanker Impro, De Tanker in Noord, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Jan 10, 2019 LETJOY 68, Tung Nam Lou Hotel, Hong Kong
Nov 23, 2018 Klex festival, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia