Reverberation: Pulsating (2024) focuses on Taiwanese locally-made craft instruments: MuYu and Luo. Its starting point is based on the aesthetics of contemporary music and sound art. Both main creators visited the factories many times and had numerous conversations with the craftsmen, exploring the repurposing and sonic possibilities of these crafts. This work attempts to uncover the collision between space and sound, the resonance between the body and the instrument, the sensation of breathing and vibration, and the alternation between chaos and order, all of which constantly goes back and forth and refocuses between the sonic essence of MuYu and Luo and the modulated rhythmic pulsations. This work only features these two instruments, MuYu and Luo, accompanied by various installations, percussion mallets, and playing techniques, with instrumental sizes ranging from 2 inches to 25 inches for MuYu, and 5 inches to 30 inches for Luo, for a total of 100 instruments. Through six percussionists, speakers, transducers, and installations, the inner qualities and textures of these two instruments are explored and revealed, in addition to lighting to create a sound-light interweaving atmosphere, along with sounds coming from different directions to establish an immersive sonic experience, allowing the audience to flow with the ever-changing sound and pulsation to reverberate together within the space.

  • Performance
Performance Venue: NTCH Experimental Theater, Taipei Performance Date : 2024/04/12 (FRI.) 19:30 2024/04/13 (SAT.) 14:3019:30 2024/04/14 (SUN.) 11:0014:30 https://linktr.ee/reverberation_project



photos by Lin Yu-Quan

  • Team
Project Leader|LAI Chi-Hsia Co-creation, Composer|LIN Wei-Chieh Co-creation, Sound, Installation|LAI Chi-Hsia Performers |HUNG Yu-Wen、YU Rho-Mei、LEE Mei-Yi、 TSAI Fang-Yun、CHANG Yu-Chen、HUANG Hsiao-Ting Stage Design|KUO Chia-Hung Light Design|Ray TSENG Consultant|Tora HSU Stage manager|HUANG Yung-Chih Audio technical advisor|CHEN Yu-Chien、LIU Shih-wei Installation technical advisor|GUAN Shian-Yu Technical Stage Manager|YAP Siew-yin Visual|HSIAO Yang-Hsi Documentation|LIN Guan-ming、CHENG Hsiang-yun Production coordinator|Spring CHEN Executive production|NIAN Shin-Yu Production|One Litre Sound Special Thanks|He Feng Religion Craft Ltd、Lin-Wu Gong Studio