Posts Tagged ‘JK Chang’
Aura II | excerpt | 2010 | Jen-Kuang Chang I suddenly woke up in the middle of a very dark and cagey night. Scared. After a cold, bushed February stuffed with several gigantic snowstorms and oh-one-more-bonus-gigantically-gigantic-snowstorm-just-for-you, the sound of midnight rain seemed incomprehensibly monstrous to me. I took an instant shower, fed Tuck & Patti’s scrumptious album Tears of Joy to my auditory hungriness, and began to grill asparaguses with...
More →Symmetry VII | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang In a day bagged with bad weather, appalling conversations with myself, and a rotten soul, I habitually enslaved myself with a panorama view of peculiarly depressing memories. Sacrosanct aroma of organic coffee was tainted and sumptuous texture of dark chocolate fouled, making me feel like an archangel of no tomorrow. In a day like this, it felt like a therapeutic measure to get...
More →Stream | Exported Frame | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang As usual, I helplessly unfolded into an optimist after few cups of organic coffee and fantasized in sublime ignorance that my out-of-century desktop computer could, beyond any reasonable doubt, successfully render a one-hour long generative audiovisual project in lossless avi format in After Effect CS3. I held my breath. I clicked render. I watched my computer superhero-ing through one hundred hours...
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Strokellectanea III | Excerpt | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang The musicsphere for working on Strokellectanea project, a series of blissful generative graphics, orbited through Glenn Gould’s The Goldberg Variations (1955) to Henryk Górecki’s String Quartet No.3 to John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman CD to Per Nørgård's Symphony No. 3 to Van den Budenmayer, and then concluded with Gould’s The Goldberg Variations (1981). The inclusion of Van den Budenmayer in the...
More →Sphere VIII | 2009 | Jen-Kuang Chang In a day with puzzlingly blustery weather condition like this, it was very becoming to simply ground myself in the coziness of my bed and sacramentally revisit "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I flipped through one oddly comforting page after another while symmetrically sipping countless cups of organic coffee. Marquez’s short story delivered the literary magic and...
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