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Transsonic (2018- )

for real-time spatialized guitar and lights

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

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