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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

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