Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Added value in performence of Chang Xiang Shou by Chi Wang
So since the whole week, has been pretty much talk about Kyma I decided for this blog to include some refferal to KISS 2012. Saturday concert was visual as well as music concert and in particular the performance by Chi Wang and her composition Chang Xiang Shou has played a big effect on me. In this performance Chi Wang used a wii powered voleyball that she used to control sound as well as movement of certain pictures on the screen. I found it interesting when Chi Wang's film was more angular or like a static pictures the music was more moving forward and angular which made it interesting in the film sort of creating sense of moving even though the pictures was static. Another aspect I noticed was when the Wii volleyball would go in circle, the sound would be surround and the picture on the screen would be moving circular too. By having surround sound the picture almost felt more life, more real. It was interesting because when I would close my ears during performance and try to isolate sound the film itself sort of seemed broken up into parts, compare to with music it seemed to have a very good flow.
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I agree with your comment about the music being "smoother" without the video. However, I think that the video gave the performance a sense of movement forward, as well as placing the different parts of the sound into movements. I think that without the video the audio would have became boring after a while. The video provided a depth to the audio that normally isn't there. For example, the chopped up voices, for me, would not have made sense if it was not for the visual element of the Chinese figures. And because that same sound and video appeared again later in the performance, It strengthened the relationship between the two elements.
Actually watching her perform the piece is what really through me off. I guess by "through me off" I mean distracting. Although it was amazing to watch, I found it difficult to watch her, the video, and listen to the relationships that they had with the audio. I also found myself predicting what was going to happen next in the video, because there was a slight delay between her movements and what was projected onto the screen. All in all, amazing performance, and it definitely is a great example of how video can affect ones perception of the video and vice versa.
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