Archive for April 2009
minimun | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang minimum is scored for four parts with flexible and expandable instrumentation. The compositional process was in essence based on the concept of code arts instigated by my not-so-fruitful experiment with Processing software. The oddly amusing part of the compositional process was to spend an era on constructing a formula of which the whole composition was structured and derived upon. The bonus enjoyment for...
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A stylized photo of Filtrete Dust Reduction / 20 x 30 x 1 / 300 performance rating / 10 panels of minimalistic goodies / used in an installation project
More →Santa Fe Plaza | Santa Fe, New Mexico | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang April in Santa Fe, New Mexico was simply gorgeous. Air was as pristine as 96Khz/24bit sound and the atmosphere was fun and cheery like George Rodrigue's blue dog. After 12-or-so-hour of road trip and road trip music, all we needed was a quick sip of beautiful view of the Santa Fe Plaza and we...
More →Bicycle Built For 2000, credited to Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey, utilizes 2,088 voice recordings of Daisy Bell contributed by people from 71 countries through Amazon's Mechanical Turk service. Daisy Bell, originally composed by Harry Dacre in 1892, was selected by John Kelly, Carol Lockbaum, and Max Mathews back in 1962 for the project realized with IBM 704 computer to create synthesized vocal and accompaniment. Koblin and Massey's modern attempt...
More →Chakra | 2007 | Jen-Kuang Chang Chakra was composed back in 2007 during an eventful week in the spring time. I finally got the time to reread the first two chapters of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood and listen to Brain Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports twice, Kaija Saariaho's NaoNao six times, György Kurtág's …quasi una fantasia…four times, and Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde eight blondy times. I also...
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