Collaboration with Rosalind Hall
Attending to breathing spaces and mouth details, Alice Hui-Sheng Chang and Rosalind Hall experiment with similarities between abstract voice and saxophone. The jump between interior and exterior perspectives of the instruments brings focus to the textures, movements and embodiment of sound.
Rosalind Hall is a saxophonist and instrument builder based in Melbourne, Australia. She is interested in making modifications to the saxophone that radically changes the sound of and approach to the instrument. Rosalind crafts individual reeds from many materials, transforming the reed into a sensitive and volatile sound source whose properties are ever changing. She uses objects in the bell so that with each preparation and reed the vibrations and playing techniques are altered, creating a unique dialogue between the player and the instrument.
Extended vocal technique has been Alice Hui-Sheng Chang's main focus since end of 2003. She improvises with extended vocal technique in hope of evoking a psychological connection to the indescribable feelings. Her work explores various combinations of layering and interactivity of extended techniques via interaction with the soundscape and acoustic properties of the environment, with attention to visual and spatial associations. Through these sounding, movement and listening experiments, she explored condensing and extracting of inner energy, in-site and spatialisation between collaborators, as well as the harmony and dissonance between them.
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