Through music creation as an artistic practice, I study human conditions with a focus on affect, perception and relation. Community, commoning and decentralization are particularly important areas of research and guideposts for my practice. I work in collaborative projects consisting of texts, scores, performances, videos and installations that attempt to realize ways of being together based in intimacy, hope and generosity. Meaningful participation is an integral part of the processes that I engage in, and often takes the form in the development of methods for decentralized music creation. Education and organizing work with groups such as Family Dinner, Fire is Scary, and Hache Collective also plays a significant role in my socially-engaged practice. With this work I critique art and music scenes and propose alternatives to create more accessible, inclusive and vital communities.
Sound is Touch #1 - Sound is Touch #1 is an intimate performance, sonic meditation, tactile exercise, collaborative instrument, textual score and physical recording. Playing with a gentle touch in the boundaries between various formats, this work invites interaction and listening through/with the body. Open the box and engage with objects inside.
Family Dinner - Family Dinner is a cookbook / collection of printed works, as well as a documentation of the first edition of the Family Dinner residency in which a group of artists gathered to study, discuss and work through the themes of hospitality, sharing and gifts.
Family Dinner is an art space/residency/project/dream starting from the basis of food and community, organized by Charli Herrington and Gordon H. Williams. It is built upon a collective research on reproductive labor— not just cooking and collecting recipes, but an experiment through learning, cooking, eating and cleaning together. Family Dinner is based in Rotterdam and focuses on supporting local artists, food growers and reproductive laborers.
‘Named lover but not lover made a fire to heat the fire.’ - This video for the 8th track from our debut album uses footage from our exhibition, so you should play on a swing, which we presented in Amsterdam in December 2021. This track, as well as the others on the album, is a result of a long and ongoing series of translations.
Fire is Scary
Sol Enae Lee
Gordon H. Williams
Agustin Faundez Rojas
Ariel Sin Yu Lee
This is a difficult email to send. - I wrote This is a difficult email to send. after a cooperative that I volunteered with announced that it was shutting its doors. The title is a direct quote from the final email of the cooperative’s directors. In this piece, electronic and live sound, as well as video, come together to convey a sense of inevitability- that which cannot be avoided. Sol Enae Lee provided the design and animation for this work.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics - The Second Law of Thermodynamics is a piece written for an audience to perform. The score consists of twelve parts which progress from highly structured and ordered instructions, to gradually more vague and ambiguous instructions. The duration and content are guided, but indeterminate.
