My Dreams These Days: Rhythmic

"It's gonna be fine (2020)" is a critique on people's indifference towards COVID-19 and the classicist reality of mid-pandemic lives, particualrly in the United States. Referencing "Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe, the protagonist wakes up in a mansion full of priveledged party goers, while the rest of the world is suffering from medical, financial, and emotional hardships. How are we carrying on with life as the world adapts to a new "reality" ?

Snowflakes take form under tumultuous circumstances: freezing temperatures, systemic impurities, and a long fall. Variations on hexagonal geometry, a symbol of wholeness in Chinese culture, are used to simulate these anomalously half-frozen etherflakes, which melt just as fast as they appear. 

Some days you wake up and nothing quiet makes sense, so you try to rebuild. You dream, you wander, you remember a distant past. Slowly you realize there is no order to how things used to be, but to move forward you need to come up with one that defies all logic 

Over the course of this performance I enact “free-drumming”, which consists of drumming influenced by virtual elements and sounds that are generated and manipulated by the body through motion tracking. I become part of a cosmic world of clicking drumsticks, floating snare drums, figures made up of particles, and sonic drones and audio clips which create a conversational exchange and fuel the physical body’s movement and drumming.

This seven-speaker digital sonic sculpture is a documentation of our awareness, movements and subtle sounds from our day-to-day lives, discreetly intertwined within the vocal waves. It is a reaction to our hyper-techno-isolation through noise cancelling Air Pods and headphones. Each speaker holds a single voice with specified instructions, and as the piece progresses, should project these individualities into one sonic shape, body and size. This endless composition uses repetition as a source of stability and comfort, guiding the listener through the sonic experience. It envelopes traditional musical techniques with untraditional performance methods into one harmonious installation. 

This seven-speaker digital sonic sculpture is a documentation of our awareness, movements and subtle sounds from our day-to-day lives, discreetly intertwined within the vocal waves. It is a reaction to our hyper-techno-isolation through noise cancelling Air Pods and headphones. Each speaker holds a single voice with specified instructions, and as the piece progresses, should project these individualities into one sonic shape, body and size. This endless composition uses repetition as a source of stability and comfort, guiding the listener through the sonic experience. It envelopes traditional musical techniques with untraditional performance methods into one harmonious installation. 

This seven-speaker digital sonic sculpture is a documentation of our awareness, movements and subtle sounds from our day-to-day lives, discreetly intertwined within the vocal waves. It is a reaction to our hyper-techno-isolation through noise cancelling Air Pods and headphones. Each speaker holds a single voice with specified instructions, and as the piece progresses, should project these individualities into one sonic shape, body and size. This endless composition uses repetition as a source of stability and comfort, guiding the listener through the sonic experience. It envelopes traditional musical techniques with untraditional performance methods into one harmonious installation. 

This seven-speaker digital sonic sculpture is a documentation of our awareness, movements and subtle sounds from our day-to-day lives, discreetly intertwined within the vocal waves. It is a reaction to our hyper-techno-isolation through noise cancelling Air Pods and headphones. Each speaker holds a single voice with specified instructions, and as the piece progresses, should project these individualities into one sonic shape, body and size. This endless composition uses repetition as a source of stability and comfort, guiding the listener through the sonic experience. It envelopes traditional musical techniques with untraditional performance methods into one harmonious installation. 

This seven-speaker digital sonic sculpture is a documentation of our awareness, movements and subtle sounds from our day-to-day lives, discreetly intertwined within the vocal waves. It is a reaction to our hyper-techno-isolation through noise cancelling Air Pods and headphones. Each speaker holds a single voice with specified instructions, and as the piece progresses, should project these individualities into one sonic shape, body and size. This endless composition uses repetition as a source of stability and comfort, guiding the listener through the sonic experience. It envelopes traditional musical techniques with untraditional performance methods into one harmonious installation. 

This seven-speaker digital sonic sculpture is a documentation of our awareness, movements and subtle sounds from our day-to-day lives, discreetly intertwined within the vocal waves. It is a reaction to our hyper-techno-isolation through noise cancelling Air Pods and headphones. Each speaker holds a single voice with specified instructions, and as the piece progresses, should project these individualities into one sonic shape, body and size. This endless composition uses repetition as a source of stability and comfort, guiding the listener through the sonic experience. It envelopes traditional musical techniques with untraditional performance methods into one harmonious installation. 

This seven-speaker digital sonic sculpture is a documentation of our awareness, movements and subtle sounds from our day-to-day lives, discreetly intertwined within the vocal waves. It is a reaction to our hyper-techno-isolation through noise cancelling Air Pods and headphones. Each speaker holds a single voice with specified instructions, and as the piece progresses, should project these individualities into one sonic shape, body and size. This endless composition uses repetition as a source of stability and comfort, guiding the listener through the sonic experience. It envelopes traditional musical techniques with untraditional performance methods into one harmonious installation. 

When I am on the train late at night, I can feel myself becoming a part of the train. In those moments, there is no distinction between myself and the train. I want to create an audio that replicates that experience.

Blurring the boundaries between land and sea, Sirens Dawn creates a seascape in constant flux with its identity—ever changing, always in motion. A sonic topography inspired and partly arranged from recordings made around a sound mirror on the South East coast of England (UK). The mirror, itself, stands dormant as it waits, facing outward away from land. Sound markers and siren warnings; still it listens, quietly detecting.

“Celebration” is a post-club music video, which presents underground clubs provide transformative power to Chinese queer identity through non-judgmental and inclusive experiences. In the short film, multiple psychedelic CGI animations present an alternative and utopian habitat where numerous chrome-plated Bodhisattvas dance, where queer thrives and lives free. By duplicating the Bodhisattvas, the religious figures become neutral, and the traditional spiritual form is manipulated, communicating messages of universal queer acceptance, celebrated with dancing. This work explores how the Chinese queer community can be visible in the club scenes, and how the post-club aesthetics shelter the Chinese queer identity.

Those who exist beyond the mirror’s surface remember what it used to look like.  If you stare into its reflection they’ll whisper secrets in your ears. Which direction will you run?

It’s time to address the flesh. The body remembers so we cannot forget.

The first of 4 videos existing together as an ode to the shedding of formers selves. 
The fever-dreamy collaged style of exploration demands attention much like a screaming child, or watching a clown car accident.

Close the curtains. Lock the front door. Don’t answer the door and hide in the closet.

“Celebration” is a post-club music video, which presents underground clubs provide transformative power to Chinese queer identity through non-judgmental and inclusive experiences. In the short film, multiple psychedelic CGI animations present an alternative and utopian habitat where numerous chrome-plated Bodhisattvas dance, where queer thrives and lives free. By duplicating the Bodhisattvas, the religious figures become neutral, and the traditional spiritual form is manipulated, communicating messages of universal queer acceptance, celebrated with dancing. This work explores how the Chinese queer community can be visible in the club scenes, and how the post-club aesthetics shelter the Chinese queer identity.