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Title
Samurai
Creator
Matthews, Alex
Contributor
Jung, Hunjoo
Date Created and/or Issued
Friday, June 21, 2013
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
IDEAS Performance Series
Rights Information
Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the UC Regents. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact
Jung, Hunjoo
Description
This performance of two pieces, Samurai Showdown and M.P.D., both by Hunjoo Jung, is part of the Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences in the Qualcomm Institute of Calit2. The project Samurai is the work of composer, improviser and video artist Hunjoo Jung, a second-year MA student at UC San Diego. It consists of two pieces: Samurai Showdown, and M.P.D. Both pieces are explorations in the multi-complex structures, which involve live electronics, video projection, lighting, action, live visuals, and sound-file playback with spatialization. The playbacks are built from C-sound & Digital Performer. They run on Max/MSP with spatialization, while visual and video images are built from GEM (Pure Data) that interlocks data points and lighting. Voice with real-time access to program that is built from Max/MSP accompanied by actions on the stage. The concert order involves: Explanation of technology (10 mins) Samurai Showdown, in four scenes for voice, live electronics, live visuals and video in 16 channels (15 mins) -Scene 1: Slashing of Swords -Scene 2: Dancing of Swords -Scene 3: Mourning for the grudge of the soul -Scene 4: Last battle while wind shook a multitude of floral leaves off the cherry blossom tree M.P.D. for action, live electronics, live visuals and video in 16 channels (10 mins) The entire program runs approximately 40 minutes.
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Hunjoo Jung is a Korean composer, improviser and video artist. He graduated from the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston in Composition and Music Theory in 2011 and is now a second-year MA student in Composition for Music at UC San Diego. He has also been accepted to the Ph.D. program in Composition at UC San Diego. In recent years, besides focusing on orchestral and chamber contemporary music, Jung has also been exploring multi-complex structural ways in which video projection, lighting, spatialization, sensors, action, dance, live visuals, sound-file playback and sculptural forms of objects can be used in a wide range of combinations with acoustic and electronic music. Credits: Written by Hunjoo Jung Director of performance and film: Hunjoo Jung Sound and video design: Hunjoo Jung Lighting Design: Mace Tripp Operating Lighting and Video Projection: Mace Tripp Operating Electronics: Michael Ricca and Issac Garcia-Munoz Voice: Hunjoo Jung Action: Hunjoo Jung, Akash Chilka, Isaac Valenzuela and Ori Talmon
Type
moving image

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