Wayang

Visual and Interaction Design | Creative Coding | Live Digital Performance

Took charge of design, production and coding Year: Feb 2019

INTRO

“Wayang” is inspired by a traditional performance in Malaysia, shadow puppet or wayang kulit. There are four people that involve making this project successful and they are musician Wick Simmons, animator Yiyao Nie, dancer Razimen Sabini, and lighting designer Hamilton Guillén. We're using four major aspect idea of shadow puppet which is puppets, shadows, screen and light source. With this tool, we created two different environments current (technology) and traditional.

This project is inspired by music called "Khse Buon”. It is a hand-written score by Cambodian composure Chinary Ung; a stylistic fusion of contemporary Western and non-Western music languages. Chinary Ung wrote this score and shows how he had to adapt traditional western music notation to capture some of the freedom and improvisatory nature of traditional Asian folk music. Our dancer, Razimen Sabini, originally from Malaysia, currently living in New York City, listening to this particular music make him feels like home and he can see himself through this music. The cross-cultural freedom of this music inspired him to move freely with the knowledge of dance within his body. So we come up with this work using traditional movement that mixes with contemporary and/or ballet technique to define new meanings of movement vocabulary. It is always inspiring to us to see the cross-culture between East and West, which is exactly what this music about and the members of this team also come from a diverse background.

All the visuals are generated by code and rendered in real time according to dancers' movement using Kinect.

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My Work:

Production, Creative Coding, Visual Design, Digital Live Performance, Live Motion Capture

Collaborated with:

Dancer: Razimen Sabini

Musician: Wick Simmons

Exhibition:

Jack Crystal Theater, New York, NY, March 14-15 2019

 

PERFORMANCE

The first approach:

 

The second approach:

 
 

PROCESS

 

Here are some photos took from our tests and rehearsals.

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