United

video with eight-channel sound

2013 · 9m

United invites the audience to gaze at the intricate happenstance coordination of movements in the world, in this case the view out a window of Narita Airport in Tokyo on September 9, 2011 from 3:31 to 3:40 PM. A multichannel score heightens the viewers' perceptions of ordinary events, setting the passing moments into a kind of timeless frame. The music was composed from recordings of individual musicians from the Gagaku ensemble Reigakusha, which were composed especially for the artwork.

Premiere

  • 2013

    • Run Run Shaw Creative Media Center, Hong Kong City University

Presentations

  • 2024

    • ZKM | Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • 2018

    • Bing Concert Hall, Studio, CCRMA Concert, Stanford University
  • 2017

    • Intermedia Symposium, Tokyo University of Art and Music, Japan
  • 2016

    • Sound/Image Conference, University of Greenwich, UK
  • 2015

    • University of Oregon, Eugene
    • Tokyo University for Arts and Music, Japan
    • Senzoku Gakuen College of Music, Tokyo, Japan
    • Department of Music, UC Santa Barbara, CA
    • 12 Nights of Electronic Music, Bakehouse Arts Complex, Miami, FL
    • Berkeley Art Festival, CA
    • Visible Bits, Audible Bytes, Phoenix Theatre, Leicester, UK
  • 2014

    • FaceArt, Shanghai, China
    • Department of Music, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
    • M@SH Collective Music Marathon, St Hilda's College, Oxford University, UK
    • SoundImageSound International Festival, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA