INTERACTIVE VISUALS WITH CHAOSFLÖTE

Developed with flutist and interdisciplinary artist Melody Chua, ‘Bad Decisions’ is a collaboration that explores audio-visual interactivity and intelligent machine improvisation. Visuals and sound react to ‘Chaosflöte’ (a cybertronic flute with motion sensor) in real time through a patchwork of triggers pre-programmed in SuperCollider, MAX/MSP, and Touchdesigner. This first iteration was premiered at the Design Biennale 2019 in Zurich, CH, and subsequently performed at Swiss Digital Day and Refresh Festival 2019 at ZHdK.

Setting the Tone is a multi-sensory interactive installation by Xuan & Jo Ho, that reinterprets a habitual and spatial experience that we are all familiar with: the activity of dining. By using a combination of media, such as sound, vision and food, we aim to highlight the immersive nature within the act of eating. On the opening day of the exhibit, visitors were invited to book a seat at our table to play with, listen to, and eat jellies of different flavors and colors. In “Setting the Tone,” each color of jelly corresponds to a certain sound depending on the way it is placed on the plate, and in which course it is being played.

Process Book

#32daysofStockhausen is a personal project made for Instagram using Telemusik, an electronic piece by Stockhausen. This series of 32 vignettes aims to visualize the sonic richness of each section using techniques in animation, collage, glitch, typography, digital processing, drawing & photography.

View the complete series on my IG

Composed by Kaija Saariaho

Performed by Dustin Seo

Sept Papillons is a collaboration between cellist Dustin Seo and Xuan. Originally a solo acoustic work by composer Kaija Saariaho, the visuals are abstract animations inspired by the sonic textures drawn out of the cello. The goal of the collaboration was to shift focus from the performer to the experience of the music as a whole, so that the concert would be completely immersive and the sonic world will fill every physical space it’s performed in.

Abstract film: Digital processing

Music by Tomek Arnold

‘Reactions’ is an abstract film about the explosive and volatile nature of the creative process.

Allison Wright, sound artist

Nicole Patrick, drums

Xuan, visuals

Chaos Hands is a trio that encompasses genre-bending and discipline-defying in every sense of the word. Their live performance is a mix of improvisation, through-composed material, and pre-recorded triggers. Everything created by Chaos Hands is based on pillars of trust, letting go and experimentation. All voices in the ensemble play and equal role in the development of the pieces. Each member lives in a separate continent, which means the material is passed from one to another as it is being developed. Our original compositions are heavily influenced by Berlin & Detroit Techno, drum and bass, Bjork, Jon Hopkins, Sophie, Arca, and Avant-Garde film.

Abstract visuals: photography, digital processing

Commissioned by Third Coast Percussion & Glenn Kotche

‘Composed over a six-year period by Wilco drummer Glenn Kotche in collaboration with his fellow Chicagoans from the Third Coast Percussion quartet, much of the music in “Wild Sound,” is derived from integrating the sounds of making and unmaking the instruments being used. It puts a clever twist on the phrase “work in progress.”’

--StarTribune