-> I Live Such a Life
Installation, Voicemail, Sound, Light, 2022
Tools: Digital fabrication, Arduino, Max/msp, Handcraft
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"I Live Such a Life" is an interactive sound and light installation that translates emotional voicemail stories into musical pieces that capture the essence of conveyed emotions while leaving out the detailed content. The installation perceives the human body as a uniquely individual instrument, playable through the way we talk, recognizing emotions as a universal language beyond our spoken ones.
This piece creates individual Max/MSP instrument for each of the eight basic emotions, as classified by Plutchik's emotion wheel. With which, It translates and exclusively preserves the emotional essence of the stories into musical compositions. It is a poetic data mapping of human emotions and a shared safe garden for our inner landscapes.
The piece is created because:
—besides the ocean of great man in history, there are
rivers of everyone/everyone has his own river (Yang Benfen)
世界上不止有名人的巨流，每个人都有河。（杨本芬）
—our emotions will not become insignificant because there is greater pain or happiness in the world. Everything we feel is real and significant to ourselves(Long Yingtai)
我们自己心里的痛苦不会因为这个世界有更大或者更“值得的痛苦而变得微不足道；它对别人也许微不足道，对我们自己，每一次痛苦都是绝对的，真实的，很重大
—no matter how, we all are connected.
“I live such a life” is an ever-growing piece, maybe someday it will become a forest.
And，
I wish it to be sincere and beautiful.
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Installation, Voicemail, Sound, Light, 2022
Tools: Digital fabrication, Arduino, Max/msp, Handcraft
"I Live Such a Life" is an interactive sound and light installation that translates emotional voicemail stories into musical pieces that capture the essence of conveyed emotions while leaving out the detailed content. The installation perceives the human body as a uniquely individual instrument, playable through the way we talk, recognizing emotions as a universal language beyond our spoken ones.
This piece creates individual Max/MSP instrument for each of the eight basic emotions, as classified by Plutchik's emotion wheel. With which, It translates and exclusively preserves the emotional essence of the stories into musical compositions. It is a poetic data mapping of human emotions and a shared safe garden for our inner landscapes.
The piece is created because:
—besides the ocean of great man in history, there are
rivers of everyone/everyone has his own river (Yang Benfen)
世界上不止有名人的巨流，每个人都有河。（杨本芬）
—our emotions will not become insignificant because there is greater pain or happiness in the world. Everything we feel is real and significant to ourselves(Long Yingtai)
我们自己心里的痛苦不会因为这个世界有更大或者更“值得的痛苦而变得微不足道；它对别人也许微不足道，对我们自己，每一次痛苦都是绝对的，真实的，很重大
—no matter how, we all are connected.
“I live such a life” is an ever-growing piece, maybe someday it will become a forest.
And，
I wish it to be sincere and beautiful.
Our body as the instrument
"I Live Such a Life" explores the idea that our bodies are instruments that produce a unique and complex range of sounds. We communicate not only through the content of our speech but also through the volume, pitch, duration, timbre, and pauses that shape our communication.
For the first time, I miss my mom so much
Then memory will turn into faith
Feeling alive again
We share the same soul when holding hands
We set off at 1 am for the sunrise
Floating in the air
I went to cinema alone when I am sad / Four movies in nine days
Like I would become him in 10 years
The vast lake
The crying door
I have been feeling stuck this past 6 month
It should have a soft and tender texture
