Foxconn Frequency (no.3) – for three visibly Chinese
Music
Description
Description
Foxconn Frequency (no.3) – for three visibly Chinese performers is a work of “algorithmic theatre” that incorporates real-time game mechanics, piano pedagogy, 3D-printing and poetry.
Three performers work with and against each other as they move through a series of testings and mini-games sourced from piano training. They succeed and fail in real-time, forced to correct their mistakes before they can continue. In each performance, 3D-printers output an object documenting the performer’s competency over time.
There are many reasons for the restriction of “one visibly Chinese performer. ” In music composition, we often specify instruments (e.g for solo violin), but almost never the body itself. By making this distinction, it is the artist’s intention to draw focus to the performer’s identity, to engage the eyes as well as the ears, and to bring attention to the “extra-musical,” shifting the mode of audience perception to multiple modalities.
Fully automated and generative, Foxconn Frequency (no.3) is different every performance, ranging from 50 minutes to 80 minutes: an experiment in digital game-mechanics as a way of meaning making in the performing arts.
CREATORS：Natalie Tin Yin Gan; Milton Lim; Remy Siu; Vicky Chow [Canada]; Paul Paroczai; Matt Poon [Canada]
PerformerS：Natalie Tin Yin Gan; Vicky Chow [Canada]; Matt Poon [Canada]
Info
Free
Indoor
Local, Non-local
