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tranSonic 2009
- Fujui Wang
Live Performance

Description of the project:

tranSonic 2009

"TranSonic Sound Art Festival" is the most experimental and creative
sound art performance in Taiwan. This year, the theme of the festival
is "Sound, Vision and Space". By projecting video images to
deconstructed spaces, artists rebuild the relationship between
visualization and space dimensions, trying to bring new experience in
listening and imagination.

SoundBulb
- Fujui Wang
Sound Installation

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Art contemporain taïwanais

Curated by Chih-Cheng Chen and Eric Féloneau, Paris
Exposition du 24 mars au 3 mai 2009
École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris

2008

Sound Bulb
- Fujui Wang
Sound Installation

1. Description of the project:

Sound Bulb, the sound installation in which different volume of feedback sound generate through microphone and speaker randomly. The small speaker and tiny microphone is inside the same glass bulb. The sound from the small speaker is picked up by the tiny microphone, a “feedback loop” is created. The volume of the “feedback loop” is controlled by the microcontroller, digital resistor and relay randomly while the rhythm of sound/silence unconsciously formulates the soundscape of insect world. The bulb as a container varies different sono-signals by its shape.

Instead of mostly using the PITCH to compose sound work, sound bulb unconventionally by using just the VOLUME creates a purified soundscape of the nature. In the endless circles of sound generation inside the bulb, every moment of silence is the birth of new sound. The silence/sound are as the Yin/Yang of TAICHI, the two elements composing the whole universe.

2. Tech Spec:

8 x Sound Bulb
8 x Karaoke Amplifier
8 x Custom Electronics (Digital Volume Controller)

tranSonic 2008
- Fujui Wang
Live Performance

Description of the project:

tranSonic 2008

Transcend the perception of sound and its medium.
Discover more possibilities from within the sound itself.
Using sound as the main body of exploration,
along with interactivity,live video, light installation,
kinetic art, game station, laser, etc.

Exceeding the conflict between all media,
tranSonic is about to evoke our imaginative space.

Blinding Light
- Fujui Wang
Outdoor Projection

Description of the project:

The core concept of this performance is the idea that the architectural and conceptual framework of the urban space is formed by a wide variety of "buildings". The performing artists try to loosen the rigid architectural structure by projecting lights onto surface of these buildings. What these artists seek to establish here is an imaginary public space whose structure is continuously being reshaped, and boundaries being dissolved.

2007

Beyond 0~20 Hz (To Hear What You Can't Hear)
- Fujui Wang
Sound Installation

1. Description of the project:

Beyond 0~20Hz proposes to bring the imperceptible to human perception. It aims to achieve this by using 0-20Hz (i.e. the inaudible sound frequencies of sine waves) as the main source of sound, while digitally controlling the frequencies and loudness of sounds of 0-20Hz. It is so that the device would generate ‘analog faults’ on the loudspeakers that lead to the production of new forms of sound.

0-20Hz: inaudible sound frequencies

Beyond 0~20Hz uses inaudible sounds of 0-20Hz as the main source of sound-making. By and large, people can hear from 20Hz to 18,000Hz (18 kHz); sounds below 20Hz are infrasonic and therefore inaudible. By applying the infrasonic frequencies as the chief device of sonic-arts practice, the work sets out to explore the unknown and imperceptible, yet exquisite world of sound waves. In other words, Beyond 0~20Hz attempts to find a way to allow people to hear the inaudible.

The use of special (non-ordinary) digital measures for digitally controlling the variations frequency and loudness of sounds

Sounds of 0-20 Hz might be inaudible. Nevertheless, controlling the frequency or loudness of 0-20Hz may result in generating new forms of sounds, such as a click or even a sudden pause; or in some cases, the highly random changes of frequency and loudness may generate noise. In other words, variations in frequency and loudness may effectively create various forms of sounds. It follows that the seemingly inaudible sounds could inadvertently construct new forms of hearing experience.

Hearing → Ears → 0-20Hz (inaudible frequencies) → Deconstruction by digital control → Re-construction by triggering analog faults → New forms of hearing experience

This would appear to be an ‘analog fault’ in the digital control, rather than a ‘digital fault.’

There are a number of ways in which changes of sound frequency and loudness can be digitally controlled:

i. Variations in loudness:
a. specific changes in loudness, including a pause;
b. linear changes in the volume (variations in lengths or in speeds);
c. random and non-linear changes in volume (variations in lengths or in speeds);

ii. Variations in frequency;
a. specific changes frequency;
b. linear changes in frequency (variations in lengths or in speeds)
c. random and non-linear changes in frequency (variations in lengths or in speeds).

The use of loudspeakers as a music instrument instead of a stereophonic sound generator

Beyond 0~20Hz utilizes a total of eight subwoofers. (By and large, stereo devices such as loudspeakers, headphones or power amplifiers do not support infrasonic sounds, i.e. those of 0-20Hz.) It should be noted that the subwoofers used in Beyond 0~20Hz are not intended to function as the sound transmitter. Instead, as the variations of sound frequency and loudness are digitally controlled, the physical errors may trigger sounds from the subwoofers themselves, effectively making the subwoofers a music instrument in its own right. As such, each of the eight subwoofers would generate its own distinctive sound.

As a series of attempts to digitally control the sound frequency and loudness are made, Beyond 0-20Hz constructs new forms of hearing experiences, as well as experiments ways in which sounds can be transmitted, by means of triggering the ‘analog faults’ that would prompt the subwoofers to generate sounds. In the meanwhile, the variations in the sound frequency also lead to visible vibration of the subwoofers which can also be perceived as a visual thrill; on the other hand, the abrasiveness embedded in the way Beyond 0-20Hz attempts such experiments can also be seen to inadvertently reveal another sense by which the vitality of the sounds can be perceived: that is, through the touch of the sound-generated pulse.

2. Tech Spec:

8 x Subwoofer Speaker
4 x Stereo Amp Output Power (THD 1%): > 150+150W At 4 Ohms (Stereo)
1 x FireWire Audio Interface (8 balanced line Outputs)
1 x Max/Msp Software
1 x Mac G5 or P4 PC

2006

Catch You Can't Catch
- Fujui Wang/Kehnan Liao/Ming-Chih Chang
Light Installation

Elastic Impulse
- Fujui Wang
Video

"Elastic Impulse" screened at Sixth Annual Activating the Medium Festival 2006, San Francisco Art Institute. Part of installation screening curated by Scott Arford.

2005

iPure
- Fujui Wang
Interactive Sound Installation

Each plug of the installation represents different sound and image. The audience could re-connect the plug to alternate the image: as the aura of star light penetrating the blue sky. The surreal image with microwave sound can also stir the floating subconscious of mind. By plugging the work, people’s mind become part of the work deepening into the spiritual state.

Ever Passing Moment
- Fujui Wang
Video Installation

Ever Passing Moment

people moving forward, time passing by,
void background, uncertain scenery, unknown characters,
only the movement of our body wakes us..
unconscious turmoil physically vibrated with the temple,
in a flash, gone with the wind,
the moving of the bodies transfers to the slightly smokes,
disappearing into the scene,
the past pasting and
the senses immersing..

Description:

This work reflects the state of consciousness and tries to conjure the mind tenement of contemporaneity. By shooting the shadows of the people passing through the real world, the consciousness and mind state of everybody that were captured by the surrounding sea of the messages, this work digitally gathers the elements of the physical relationship of body and real world to project the real and surreal spiritual statement of people through the fluid images.

The message world is today’s wild nature. Ostentatiously, the “free will” of human being could control the messages from the internet, faxmille, life and the society. We choose what we want, but we by all means are inevitably falling ourselves, and our “free will”, into the vast quasi-reality.

Meditating the images of Ever Passing Moment, the images of all our lonely selves passing by the world, where are our senses and consciousness flowing to? Where are we?

(text: fujui&anes)

2004

Blissful Light
- Fujui Wang
Interactive Installation

In the space of the white light, does the light itself have form or does it appear as physical human form?

The light on the bodies of viewers is drawn into the chaos and noise, returned to a silent, floating state and then disappears, leaving all perceptions floating in space. In this process, we are presented with what appears to be the interaction of bodies, but everything is controlled by a program pre-setting machine functions, making it difficult to escape the manmade machine. This work looks in more detail at the contradiction of control that exists between man and machine in an era of technology. Better to let loose the brilliant light that exists in all of us than believe in the omnipotence of technology.

Lotus Song From The Deep
- Fujui Wang
Underwater Sound Installation

Lotus, the oriental floral underwater audio installation, lyrics the mysterious codes. The ripples passing through the lake and vibrating with the sound as well as the water wave, transform into the ancient languages with profound messages, an unknown poem. People pass it, sense it, aware of it, meditate it, as times pass by…

2000

NoiseDrome
-Fujui Wang
Sound and Video Installation

The work was created through micro methods. The video portion takes broadcast TV signals and amplifies them, and a digital video camera is used to shoot microwave flashes in electronic luminous flux. The audio portion use as its raw material the sound of the sea, amplifies it, filters out all but the extreme high- and low-end frequencies, and uses a method akin to "biogenetic experimentation" to restructure, mix, recombine, and mutate different sampled sound sources, converting them into a sea-wave microwave sound signal. The microwave sound signals suggestive of spotlit waves on the surface of a vast sea correspond to the manmade microimage of the noise of broadcast electronic signals, and they are full of the unknown and are surprising.

Biography - Fujui Wang

Fujui Wang (Ching-Shen-Ching)

ACTIVITIES

1993 Founded the first noise/experimental music label "NOISE" in Taiwan, releasing fanzine, tapes, CD etc...　
1995 Starting "Ching-Shen-Ching" project for the Audio/Video creation
1998 Creating the website of NOISE@Taiwan,
2000 Member of EtatLab
2003 Organizing the first sound art exhibition "Bias" in Taiwan
2003 Teaching Max/Msp/Nato/Jitter, Pd/Gem at Taipei National University of the Arts(TNUA)
2005 Head of Digital Art Lab, Center for Art and Technology, TNUA
2006 Head of Computer Music Lab, Center for Art and Technology, TNUA
2007 Curator of the exhibition "Digital Art Festival Taipei 2007-Open Play"
2008 Organizing "TranSonic 2008" Sound Art Festival, Taipei
2008 Curator of the exhibition "Digital Art Festival Taipei 2008-Trans"
2009 Organizing "TranSonic 2009" Sound Art Festival, Taipei

EXHIBITIONS

2000 "NoiseDrome", Video Installation; "Spin City 2000: Alternative Space On Line", Whashang Art District, Taipei
2001 "Yellow Submarine"(Etat Lab), Mixed Media; "The Gravity of the Immaterial", Moca Taipei, Taipei
2001 "Joints Reflex", Interactive Sound/Video Installation, Etat , Taipei
2001 "Breaking Waves"; AO:Audio Only Sound Gallery , MAAP 2001, Australia
2001 "Erasing Scenery"(EtatLab), Video Installation; Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival, Kaohsiung
2002 "Devolve Into II", network project and Installation/ performance in collaboration with Peter Courtemanche and others. ORF Klangtheater Wien and Intermedium 2 at ZKM Karlsruhe
2002 "Stalker", Interactive Video Installation; Etat, Taipei
2002 "In Between"(EtatLab), Interative Video Installation; Total Museum, Korea
2002 "T-Art"(EtatLab), Interactive Video Installation; IT Park, Taipe
2003 "T-Art"(EtatLab), Interactive Video Installation; Taipei Artist Village, Taipei
2003 "Break In Break", Interactive Sound Installation/ Performance; Taipei Artist Village, Taipei
2003 "Flying Dots", Video; EtatLab, Taipei
2004 "Eyes Fish"(EtatLab), Video Installation; Taipei County
2004 "Lotus Song from Deep Water", Sound Installation; Taipei
2004 "NoiseDrome", Video Installation; "Media City", Moca Taipei, Taipei
2004 "Blissful Light", Interactive Installation; "CO4 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta II-Lost Words", Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei
2005 "Blissful Light”, Interactive Installation; ”CO4 Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta II-Lost Words", Hsinchu
2005 "Ever Passing Moment", Video Installation; "Con-temporary Citizens", Lan-Zhou Police Station, Taipei
2005 "iPure", Interactive Sound Installation; "The Post-Stone Age:Taiwan Contemporary Young Artists Special Exhibition", Art Taipei 2005, Taipei
2005 "Eyefish"(Etatlab), Video Installation; Art Taipei 2005, Taipei
2005 "iPure", Interactive Sound Installation; DiVA Cologne, Germany
2005 "Eyefish"(Etatlab), Video Installation; DiVA Cologne, Germany
2005 "Eyefish"(Etatlab), Video Installation; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
2005 "iPure", Interactive Sound Installation; Center For Arts, Yuan Ze University
2005 "Elastic Waves", Video Installation; Center For Arts, Yuan Ze University
2006 "Elastic Impulse", Video; The 6th Annual Activating the Medium Festival, USA
2006 "Catch You Can't Catch", Led Installation; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2007 "Beyond 0~20Hz"，Sound Installation; Boom: Taiwan-Australia New Media Arts Exhibition, Taipei
2007 "Eyefish"(Etatlab), Video Installation; Very Fun Park II, Taipei
2007 "Eyefish"(Etatlab), Video Installation; Beyond Language, Soka Art Center（Beijing）, Soka Contemporary Space (Taipei)
2007 "iPure", Interactive Sound Installation; Shanghai Art Fair 2007, China
2008 "Blinding Light", Outdoor Projection; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
2009 "SoundBulb"，Sound Installation; Art contemporain taïwanais, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, France

PERFORMANCE

1998 Etat Web TV
1999 "Ching-Shen-Ching", Audio/Video Interactive Performance, Taipei
2000 "Recombinant Noize", Taipei
2000 "Black Theatre", Interactive Performance Using PDA, Taipei
2000 "Computer Generated Soundsphere Architect", an experimental sound/image interactive performance in "Taipei Experimental Electronique Music Scene 2000"
2001 "Static Riot", an experimental sound/image interactive performance in "Taipei Experimental Electronique Music Scene 2001"
2001 "Studie I", an experimental sound performance in Etat Lab, Taipei
2002 "Electro-accoustic Combat", Taichung First Noise Art Festival, Taichung
2002 "Taipei Electronic Arts Phenomena", Whashang Art District, Taipei
2003 "Sono", Taipei Artist Village, Taipei
2003 "Weatherbrain Festival 2003” , Taipei County
2004 "Taipei Sounding 2004”, Taipei
2004 "Lotus-Holland Art Festival", Miaoli
2004 "Weatherbrain Festival 2004", Whashang Art District, Taipei
2006 "The Centennial Festival of Guling St. Avant Garde Theatre 1906~2006", "Blinding Light, Dumbing Sound", Taipei
2008 "TranSonic 2008", Taipei
2008 "Mini-Midi", Bejing
2009 "TranSonic 2009", Taipei

Audio Works

1997 "Killing Me Softly With Noise" CD Compilation, Noise/Taiwan
1998 "Soundtracks for Bride of Sevenless" CD Compilation, Auscultare Research/USA
1999 "1,2,3,0" mini-CD, Noise/Taiwan
2001 "Studie I " mini-CD, Noise/Taiwan
2003 "Poise" CD
2004 "Bias" CD/Dvd Compilation
2004 "One Love" CD Compilation
2008 "SoundWave Communication" CD

Video Works

1998 "DeathDrome"
1999 "FlowerDrome" selected by Taipei Film Festival
2000 "Deep Dream" selected by "Image 2000" program of Public TV
2000 "Ching-Shen-Ching" VideoCD
2001 "Noise Drome" selected by iMages Festival, Canada
2002 "Whirling"
2003 "WaterDrome", "Bias" Sound Art Festival, Taipei
2003 "Flying Dots"
2005 "Ever Passing Moment"

Links

http://www.kunstradio.at/BIOS/wangbio.html
http://www.kunstradio.at/2002A/26_05_02.html#dv
http://hosting.zkm.de/intermedium/d/programm/veranstaltungen/veranstaltung_09

Contact

fujuiwang@gmail.com

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