Consider harnessing sound as a way of interpreting the universe, relationships, changes, and the here and now; a process wherein an exploration of cosmopolitics is implicit; a sublimation technique to navigate between the form and essence of all things. 


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Consider harnessing sound as a way of interpreting the universe, relationships, changes, and the here and now; a process wherein an exploration of cosmopolitics is implicit; a sublimation technique to navigate between the form and essence of all things.

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Moon Tides


月潮





“Moon Tides” is a multi-part project that explores the persistance for life in a plant and human. What is the drive that motivates us to prosper, to bloom, to preservere in this life of becoming? How can we sonically interpret this striving as a score of our lives?

The idea of transbody is explored in Moon Tides I: Sonic Union, a ritualistic performance in which a plant and a human are united in a shared narrative of vulnerability and weakness. Internal sounds from the human and plant, such as breathing, digestion, breaking bones and branches and electromagnetic bio-feedback are used in a musical experience to create one sonic field of bio-rhythms.

In this performance, the narrative of vulnerability and sadness reflects upon a general correlation between power and emotions. How does the energy of life embody a certain affective politics based on our vision of life affirming goodnesses? According to Spinoza, Joy and sadness are considered two poles of the emotional scale that determine the range of the vital melodic line; joy increases one’s power to act and persist in life; sadness diminishes one’s level of power.

“Let us begin with a general mythology of sound. Imagine the most elemental technology in the world--the essence of life--the animating power that runs through all living things. This power is an intangible material with universal potential that suggests a shared disposition between all that appears to be separate. Like wind, it flows through different internal and external worlds, making the inner and outer one of the same. The ability for this power to connect different entities, spaces, and time gives it a narrating quality, bringing together different relations, changes and patterns to assemble a perspective of the world that differs from histories based on externality.” --Excerpt from Cosmopolitics of Sounds (2018)

Moon Tides II: Vitality Conversations is an sound and video installation that involves an ongoing interview with women about their life struggles and moments of bloom.  Fictional and true stories are weaved together into an abstract stream of life energy accompanied by vased flowers repeating a looped performance of blossoming.


Excerpt of Mood TIdes II: Vitality Conversations, 2017
Moon Tides I, looped film and plant, 2017




Moon Tides I, performance at Taipei Contemporary Art Center, 2017




Moon Tides II: Vitality Conversations, sound and video installation, 2017
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