Solid Light, Flowing Sound

Zone Sound Creative (Po-Hao Chi, Min-Ching Chen, Caitlin Lai)

Interactive program, found objects, field recordings

2020

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"Solid Light, Flowing Sound" is a site-specific installation that integrates glimpses of life in the marketplace. The audience can trigger and overlap pre-recorded samples to create flowing sound-light scenery. While listening to rhythms in urban spaces, we tend to refer people and things to on-site experience and associate them with our sonic memories. Henri Lefebvre's discourse indicates that rhythm is actually about repetition. However, soundscapes are always under construction. In other words, they are ever-changing. When observing various repetitive events in spaces, rhythms then enter the process of shaping time perception. Thus, "Repetition" turns into the clue that links similarity and dissimilarity. Through crowd participation, the field ambience of the marketplace, which we usually regard as noise, is interlaced with music, raising a co-creation process that forms the everyday rhythm. The mixing of various ingredients is like an experiment, leading us to discover surrounding sceneries that we often neglect when rushing through life.