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Easy Going-on

I am quite struggled with myself because I think it is very easy to lose focus at the moment. I still would like to put more time on my sound installations but the time is very tight at the moment, so I should spend some time on the multi channel stuff. And I always find it is very hard to think what would be the most significant element in my piece. Personally, my first version of doing it would be: I should make the sound installations first and make them connecting in the sound field. But as the length of time, and I think I have to make some midis for dancers which the project would be developed on… It is now being very confusing in my mind! I am thinking to spend the weekend for a free minded relaxation. Maybe less is more. Thinking of completeness first!

This easy going blog is about what easy stuffs I have done and what my interests are:

  1. I made a lovely pan flute with plastic tubes like things in the hospitals and I was thinking of developing it into copper later.

2. I learned how to set up microphones with mixpre6.

3. I made a simple midi generator for the muse head pan but was not very overwhelmed.

4. I went to William Kentridge’s exhibition and I found it really dope.

Black Box / Chambre Noire 

Set inside a miniature wooden theatre run by motors and wheels – something between a puppet show and a mechanical theatre – Black Box / Chambre Noire solidified Kentridge’s interest in entwining opera, art, theatre and film within immersive, ambitious productions.

The work examines Germany’s colonial force and genocide in South West Africa (now Namibia) at the start of the 20th century. In attempting to re-tell the historical events, the production unravels concepts of past, present, victim, perpetrator, theatre and spectator.

Like much of his work, Black Box / Chambre Noire is staunchly analogue, a very physical process and presence. At the RA, you can gather round the wooden contraption and watch mechanically operated figures (including a coffee pot, a megaphone, a bicycle rider) come to life and perform on their delicate, distorted stage.

5. I made a sound installation using cassettes, leaves, metallic tableware, and an umbrella.