TheFirst Prize Winner of the FourthDigital Art Performance Award
The Permutation—Collaborative Project for Percussion, Technology and Performance
TheDigital Art Performance Award is an important platform in Taiwan for potential digital artists to present their works. “The Symphony Project –I. Violin,”“The Process of Death,” and “Huang Yi &KUKA” are respectively the works of the first prize winners of the First, Second, and ThirdDigital Art Performance Awards.These worksdemonstrated the boundless energy of Taiwanese artists in digital art and interdisciplinary creation. “Huang Yi &KUKA” was even invited to be performed at the2013 Ars Electronica Festival held in Linz, Austria. The Digital Art Performance Awardachieves remarkable outcomesby integrating the experience and resources of the Digital Art Foundation withthose of the Quanta Arts Foundation. By presenting cutting-edge works, Taipei Digital Art Festival can be expected to become aniconic digital art festival in Asia.
“Allergen” is the first prize winner of the Digital Art Performance Award this year. It is an interdisciplinary groupfounded by Wang Lien-Cheng (interactive design), Chou Yun-Ju(percussion), Chou Li-Ting(composition), and Tsai Chia-Jeng(installation). In addition to its pathological definition, Allergen seeks to develop higher sensitivity towards the environment. Starting from the sense of hearing, it attempts tocreateunprecedented sensory experience. In “The Permutation—Collaborative Project for Percussion, Technology and Performance,” the musical instruments and loudspeakers are scattered in the venue of performance. Sounds and lights are generated from all directions and thereforeprovide the audience with unprecedented experience. The audience will experience different auditory and visual effects by freely moving in the space surrounded by sounds and lights. In this work, reality and virtuality intertwine in the relationship among the computer composition, electronic sounds, soundstage, space, and lights.Digital technology and percussion will create greater auditory complexity and more diverse dialogues between humankind and machine.
Venue: The Multi-Showcase Hall, SongShan Cultural and Creative Park
Price: 150 NTD
Time: 19:00 and 20:30 on November 2; 19:00 on November 3
Seat: Seats are not numbered.
Ticket Service: The NTCH Ticketing System
Brief Introduction to the Team
Allergen is an interdisciplinary group founded by Wang Lien-Cheng, Chou Li-Ting Chou Yun-Ju, and Tsai Chia-Jeng. In addition to its pathological definition, Allergen seeks to develop higher sensitivity towards the environment, createunprecedented sensory experience, and even become the “allergen” that heighten the audience’s sensitivity towards space as well as their visual and auditory senses.
Staff
Director: Wang Lien-Cheng
Installation Design: Tsai Chia-Jeng
Arrangement of Musical Instruments: Chou Li-Ting
Lighting Design: Liu Yen-Ting
Stage Manager: Lai Liang-Jia
Brief Introduction to the Performance
In the performance, the musical instruments are scattered in the space. The performers control the performance at the center of the venue. Sounds and lights are generated from all directions and thereforeprovide the audience with unprecedented experience. The audience will experience different auditory and visual effects by freely moving in the space surrounded by sounds and lights. This performance incarnates the spatialization of musical instruments and establishesa relationship among soundstage, space, and lights. In addition to percussion instruments, we add electronic sounds and computer composition in this work. We control the soundstage through computer algorithm and the loudspeakersthat surround the venue of performance.We also connect the electronic sounds and computer composition with real musical instruments to create greater auditory complexity.
Host: Taipei City Government
Co-Hosts: Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government; Digital Art Foundation
Sponsor: Quanta Arts Foundation
Executor: Digital Art Center, Taipei
