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Reflect VIII

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Reflect VIII | 2009 | excerpt | Jen-Kuang Chang Unhurriedly editing graphics made possible with Joshua Davis’ dazzling generative playground in this icily sluggish afternoon felt like having a tea party inside a warm Eskimos Igloo in the North Pole. Fluffy feeling aside, the task was 98% tedious with occasional glitchly rambles from my laptop of old age, seemingly complaining about the heavy data processing. Fair enough. I tucked my...

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Fluc.tu.a.tion

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Fluc.tu.a.tion | 2006 | Jen-Kuang Chang   Warming up with Canadian composer André Gagnon’s 1983 album "Impressions" and a robust cup of Antoccino in this overcast Saturday morning has unexpectedly twirled into a rather onerous process. Frozen shadows of my life lingered on like wretched souls composed over Gagnon’s placid Comme au premier jour, yearning for affections of any kind. Sigh. I quietly observed my trembling being inaudibly let go...

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The Watchful Citizen & Haymarket

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The Watchful Citizen & Haymarket | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Murky snowy day. 2:13 P.M. Alternate between dried cranberries, café noir, Ferrero Rondnoir Dark Chocolate, Moving Pictures: Contemporary Photography and Video from the Guggenheim Museum Collection, and archiving sunny-happy-smiley photos taken in a sunny-happy-smiley November day in the Haymarket with the Watchful Citizen. Old memories like wide-eyed homeless kittens hungerily waiting right outside the door. Meow. The Watchful...

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Composers of Concordia University

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Composer Theron Jenkins preparing for the rehearsal | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang Working with talented young composers, to me, is always a fantastically exciting privilege. The process is, from a personal perspective, delightfully stimulating, like taking time to introduce various espresso brewing styles and discuss their distinct features. Café au lait, café noir, caffè latte, cappuccino, breve, doppio, ristretto, wiener mélange, affogato. In no time, they are all happily brewing...

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The Strategic Air and Space Museum

Spending this sunny morning with Milan Kundera’s Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí (The Unbearable Lightness of Being), Magnus Lindberg’s cello concerto, an endless bag of Kettle Brand Sea Salt & Vinegar Potato Chips, and few happy cups of Espresso con Panna was very much my kind of Saturday-morning-extravaganza. After few hours of reading, though, it was starting to feel somewhat outlandish to exclusively sync with Karenin, the dog of Tomáš and Tereza,...

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