Frequency Chasing 🦆 頻蹸
This performance was conceived as an invitation to play—an invitation to novices like me to get on board playing in a 25-minute sound performance, while not being intimidated. Thus, a few simple rules that can be easily understood, yet offer a lot to interpret.
The first draft of the rules was simpler but too maindain, with the help of Tina, we got it tighter, and then
@space_bar_presser offered to visualise the game, which helps the audience to understand the dynamics.
I thought this can’t be hard, we sometimes fiddle with our synths for hours anyway. I was wrong.
Turns out the discovery of the right instrument and signal path is an endless pursuit. Anyone who plays with computer music or synthesisers will understand the curse by the power of computation: A synthesiser can make any sound, and so the question is, which sound?
Then, how to engage and respond to each other, is it with your ears, or your eyes, and then how to respond? Some of us dance on acoustic instruments like a swan, and I’m stuck steering a battleship of a sequencer that sometimes feels like diffusing a bomb. It sinks in on me during the final rehearsals that it feels like I sometimes struggle to steer back into the formation.
What pull us all together is a lot of talk, among ourselves and some good folks like Adam, Karen and more on almost anything.
And it pays off; somehow, we gained dynamism and engagement musically in a burst at the performance, so that’s wonderful.
Thank you for coming, and I hope to see you again in the next Frequency Chasing.
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2025.10.14
@space_bar_presser @wingkinlui_png @tuna_production_ @tim_footage &
@odsynth
Frequency Chasing at Sonic Anchor #48
Hosted by
@contemporarymusikinghk
📷Photo credit: 1,3,4,6,7 by
@soft.groundprod