This work-in-progress is performer-focused and site-specific. Each performer’s contribution will determine how the piece will sound. The core of this exercise is to develop the performer’s listening sensitivity. The performer will access and associate their significant past memories and manifest the pathway to/of them. Score: Part I (Pitch) Part II (Place) Part III (All together)
Month: September 2024
Mementos (2024)
Mementos is an original short film based on an excerpt from my zine, “Don’t Go Soft on Me”, published in 2022 alongside my album “Yesterdays Impressions”. In that album, I constructed sounds with field recordings and samples, along with my instrumental and voice recordings, making the album very cinematic. I consider this video a kind… Continue reading Mementos (2024)
“VENT!” (2022)
Commissioned by West Kowloon Cultural District Freespace “VENT!” is a dance-theatre piece exploring confinement and release. Mixed with Yang’s musical origin, creating an enveloping and unique performing art experience. A man who was born inside the ventilation of a high-security hospital, discovers humanity in a top-down overview. Light is where he learned to believe, while… Continue reading “VENT!” (2022)
Choreographer and Composer Lab, “CCLAB I II III” (2021)
COMMISSIONED BY WEST KOWLOON CULTURAL DISTRICT FREESPACE “CCLAB I II III” was co-created and performed by Jonathan Yang (Composer), Laujan (Writer), and Terry Tsang (Choreographer). This piece splits into three Acts. It explores the darkness of human nature. It is a confession to mortality through the story of pain and contortion inflicted from within, narrated… Continue reading Choreographer and Composer Lab, “CCLAB I II III” (2021)