About Me
Jen-Kuang Chang is working on acoustic, electro-acoustic, and audiovisual composition as expressive agents and is an occasional-causal-writing-addict on Charlie Parker and Bebop improvisation. Dr. Chang's chamber ensemble work, "Chakra", was named the Second Prize winner of the JIMS "Stadtpfeifer" International Composition Contest for Improvised Chamber Music in Salzburg and was premiered by the Vienna-based Janus Ensemble.
Dr. Chang's works have been presented in the International Computer Music Conference, Improvised Music Salzburg, Sonoimágenes International Festival, Visionaria International Toscana Videofestival, Festival Internazionale di Musica Elettroacustica del Conservatorio S.Cecilia, ASTAS ROMAS 404 International Electronic Art Festival, Sguardi Sonori Festival, CYNETart Festival, B-Seite Verein für Visuelle Kunst und Jetztkultur....More

 

Featured Projects
  • Blossom

    Blossom

    A snack-time project featuring series of CPU-hungry graphics completed during my residency at KHN Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts

  • Drishti III

    Drishti III

    Screenshots of Drishti III, an audiovisual work presented at Kunstfilmtag, VIDEOMEDEJA Festival, ASTAS ROMAS 404 Festival, FLUID New Media Festival

  • Sequence

    Sequence

    Snapshots of Sequence, a generative animation reacting to an hour-long field-recording of stream sound captured during my residency at the Millay Colony of Arts

  • Particle

    Particle

    Particle is a long-exposure photography series done during a moonless/sleepless night

  • Strokellectanea

    Strokellectanea

    A study of generative graphic, initiated during my stay at I-Park Artists' Enclave Residency in East Haddam, CT, by using Scriptographer in Adobe Illustrator

  • Piu Piu

    Piu Piu

    A series of graphics to study the beauty of randomness of generative codes with a little bit help from Processing and intuos4 pen tablet

From The Blog

Dialogue | John Coltrane’s employment of “The Bebop Lick” in his Coltrane Changes lines in Countdown and Giant Steps

Dialogue | John Coltrane’s employment of “The Bebop Lick” in his Coltrane Changes lines in Countdown and Giant Steps

I usually do my nonstop listening of The Heavyweight Champion: The Complete Atlantic Recordings of John Coltrane on September 23 (duh, Coltrane's birthday).  While it might seem like a self-imposed annual ritual of sort, it's really more like a superb excuse to shower myself with those less-familiar alternate takes of Coltrane's Giant Steps and daydream about that Trane's masterpiece would eventually become the number-one-hit on that jolly elevator-music-top-100-chart.  This year,...

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Dialogue | Beyond Patterns: Sculpting Jazz Improvisation Lines with the Diminished Scale

Dialogue

Our beloved diabolus in musica has been kind enough to pay my inner ears several unsolicited visit after my afternoon reading session through a fascinating thread relating to the Diminished Scale in Jazz Guitar Group Forum few days ago.  Believe me, diabolus in musica won't be winning the most-gracious-guest-award anytime soon.  He kept reharmonizing my Philip Glass study scores with that knotty diminished triad and criticizing every single Johann Sebastian...

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Black Swan & Alice White

Black Swan & Alice White | JKChang.com

A quick photo of wine corks of Alice White and Black Swan wine recycled from my friend’s trashcan / Alice the Kangaroo looked a bit lonely / P.S. Please drink responsibly.

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Sapp Bros. Giant Coffee Pot

Sapp Bros Giant Coffee Pot | JKChang.com

Sapp Bros. Truck Stops have been serving truckers and travelers since 1971. Their coffeepot logo began as a plain water tower, providing water supply to the original truck stop. After adding the coffeepot handle and pour spout, the coffeepot quickly became a recognizable landmark at the junction of I-80 and highway 50 west of Omaha. This giant coffeepot photo was taken at their Percival, Iowa location.

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