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IPHONE RINGTONE REMIX

Live Audiovisual Performance

IAMAS NxPC Online Concert Vol.46 1/2
Youtube Live Streaming
October 3, 2020

Credits
- Sound & Lighting Design : Lucy Cho
- Visual Design : Ayumi Nagai
- Performance : Kartika Menon, Keizou Tanji

A mixed reality performance by NxPC.Lab (Next Dimension Plural Media Club Experience), part of IAMAS, was designed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The performance combined live video recordings with visuals created using Touch Designer, which were then streamed on YouTube. 

The aim was to create an enjoyable experience for audiences during the pandemic. To achieve this, the performance reimagined the familiar iPhone ringtone through unique arrangements, paired with choreography to offer a fresh and engaging experience. Additionally, elements of the costumes and visuals incorporated imagery related to COVID-19, delivering a timely message reflective of the era.

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SOUND SCULPTURE

Collaborated with Keizou Tanji
Installation

IAMAS Showcase Exhibition
Softpia Japan Center 1F Showcase
September 10 - 30, 2020

Credits
- 3D Modeling : Lucy Cho
- Installation : Keizou Tanji

During a time when an unknown virus was raging, I sought to explore how to express the anxiety we were experiencing and encapsulated this contemplation in a sculpture. The piece was inspired by 9 recordings made at three-hour intervals starting at midnight on a day in June 2020. These 9 waveforms represent the patterns of my breathing at those moments, reflecting the emotions I felt at each time. Due to Japan's Mizugiwa policy, which barred re-entry from Korea to Japan, I had no choice but to collaborate remotely with Keizou Tanji. I modeled and deconstructed the sculpture, sending the files in STL format to Tanji, who received the segmented data, printed, processed, and displayed it. 

Observing the gradually forming object, Tanji remarked that the process had entirely erased the sense of its original meaning:
"We create something in a state of unknowing, forget even that we don't know, and then try to recall what we no longer remember."

This intricate emotion of anxiety cannot be fully expressed through an artificial sculpture crafted by a 3D printer. Much like our working process, this unique situation reveals how people become severed from each other, repeatedly and profoundly, in times of disconnection.



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SARASARA

for tape

EMAP (Ewha Media Art Presentation) 2019

ECC (Ewha Campus Complex)
May 30 - June 1, 2019

Credits
- Music Composition : Lucy Cho

さらさら  Sarasara
1. the bristling sound of an object
2. inexorably moving forward
The questions that once brushed through my mind often came back to engulf me.

'Sarasara' was influenced by Toru Takemitsu’s song ‘Ki. Sora. Tori,’ and thus aims to convey the intonation and respiration of the words in the song. The elongating length of Sarasara represents one’s deep dive into their inner mind.












GROWLING

for Snare Drum and Audio-Visual Media

Ewha Composition Graduation Recital 2018
Kim Yeong’s Hall of Ewha Womans University
November 13, 2018

Credits
- Music Composition & Visual Design : Lucy Cho
- Percussion : JiYoung Son
- Technical Support : Yeabon Jo

"Growling” attempts to capture the sound of hundreds of dropping ping pong balls. Ping pong balls that drop feebly due to force of gravity represent a person who is lost with despair. The shouting – the way in which one attempts to find one’s self – is easily disregarded, however, one ultimately navigates one’s own path by shouting continuously. Keyword of this work, such as “Shouting” and “Growling” is expressed as series of experimental sounds, amplified through a snare drum. Part of a tape and the image of circle repeatedly drawn by a performer symbolize the repeatability of life. MaxMsp was used in creating part of the audio.











REFLECTION

for 3 Clarinets in Bb

Ewha Composition Recital 2017
Kim Yeong’s Hall of Ewha Womans University
May 16, 2017

Credits
- Music Composition : Lucy Cho
- Clarinet : Minsik Choi, Jiyae Lee, Sehwa Hong

This piece started from a photograph entitled <Self-Portrait, May 5th, 1955> by Vivian Maier. It expands the boundary of general sound of clarinet, and experiments the possibilities of the tone by using expended techniques of the instrument. The echoes of such sounds resonate and transform into my own ‘Reflection’.