Swimming in the Sea of Sound Waves

 It is a project I did in the summer of 2012.

The stage was set in a abandoned school house of the elementary school in Sandiaoling.I spend around two months collecting sound and local stories from this tiny town used to have coal mining business.

I used these sound as an inspiration and source to create an interactive installation in an empty space in this school house. And I invited a professional dancer , whose name is Wanjen Chang, to come before opening day. We spent few days play around it to see how the sound goes with the movement, and arranged this performance in 22nd, September, 2012.

The video above is the documentary of this show, we like it to be seen even if you're not there that day. Hope you enjoy it and you are more than welcomed to share: on facebook, or your opinion of this work. Cheers!

Ming

"PILE UP, AND SWING BACK" sound design and music

My close friend Weng Cho Ray gives birth to this beautiful project as her final presentation in Konstfack.
I help her complete this sound track as part of her exhibition.
In the process of making this,
I searched few foreigners who lives in Taipei, and asked them to read Choray's words.
The whole experience is beautiful, because those words became alive through their voices.
In the end, I suddenly realize the distance between individuals is not that far.

We could understand strangers deeply.

hope you enjoy this soundtrack, beautiful human beings

Love, Ming

check Cho Ray's work on http://oowcr.com/

[Relation]

Relation is a modern dance play, it is about how individuals interact with others and the process of building relations. Pretty interesting concept and brave intention trying to tell this story in nonverbal language. This is what I have been working on lately.

Composing music for Relation is a whole new experience to me, cause dancers aren't like short films, which I have more experience to compose music for. Dancers aren't fixed, they breathe and glow according to their body and mental state. So my assignment is to create the right atmosphere for them to live/dance, and they will breathe out the emotions which touches the audience. Instead of acting like the boundaries which limits dances, my music is supporting the structure of the whole dance play and remain space/flexibility for it. Love the process of creating this work with the Taiwanese choreographer-Feng Xi Yen and dancers in Feng Dance, creative energy flows back and forth every time we rehearse.

Look forward to see the show, if you are in Taiwan, come to see us!
If not, check the trailer below at least, and give me some feedback.

Love, Ming

Whistle/ Drawing/ Glitch

From the moment I chose to investigate and explore more in the sound field, I found my true passion toward understanding the the relationship of sound and visual.And [Whistle/Drawing/Glitch] is part of it. I build this algorithm in MaxMSP, there are two main mechanism. First, detecting the pitch of my whistle and generating arpeggio to comping it; second, grabbing the data of the mouse position and feeding them back to change different parameters to create glitchy sound. By these two main approach, I successfully integrated whistle and drawing into my new instrument!!

Please give me constructive feedback, they will help me to improve and give you better work next time.
Thank you!!