Archive for October 2008
The Children’s Museum of Richmond (CMoR), located at Broad Street in downtown Richmond, was moved from its previous location in the Navy Hill School in 2000 to its current location, featuring an open art studio, a living tree house, and a town square. A satellite location, CMoR Short Pump, was opened in the West End of Richmond Page in 2010, featuring an indoor Safari Train and an art studio.
More →My Secret Heart is a multimedia work created by composer Mira Calix, video artist Flat-e, and sound designer Dave Sheppard for Streetwise Opera. 17th-century Italian composer Gregorio Allegri's Miserere Mei was selected by Calix and Flat-e for its "theme of secrecy" as the primary musical inspiration. The work is presented as an installation on 360 degree screen with surround sound and stunning visual. My Secret Heart Project My Secret Heart...
More →Musicians preparing for "...et cetera" at Ball State University | 2008 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Accompanied by October’s spotless sky, we road-tripped to Muncie, Indiana to participate in SCI Student National Conference 2008, hosted by Michael Pounds, at Ball State University. Muncie, a birthplace of Ball Corporation, was approximately 723.03 miles away from our home-sweet-home. After some Terry Riley and lots of Beatles later, we finally reached Muncie...
More →Organicism VI | 2008 | Jen-Kuang Chang The productivity was somewhat diminished due to the unbearable heat waves when I was in Connecticut for a retreat program this summer. It was really hot there. The clock started to seem to move in the fashion of metric-modulation performed by kangaroo tube band and I basically did nothing while accomplishing the feat of sweating like a broken fountain. I had little choice...
More →Dream II | 2008 | Jen-Kuang Chang Dream series was a pictorial extension of a graphic score, titled Nada, completed and realized when I participated in Music Omi International Residency during the summer of 2008. Hans Parment, a tremendous composer and a flutist from Sweden, and I interpreted the score of Nada in an outdoor concert in Music Omi and in a concert in Roulette in New York City....
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