CCRMA OVERVIEW - CCRMA - Stanford University

published as an enhanced CD by earsay productions http://www.earsay.com. The CD includes
sounds, text, and the algorithms used to create the piece. The text, in HTML format, is available
at http://www.sfu.ca/~dkeller.
Sections of touch'n'go have been played in Vancouver, Bourges. Stanford, and on Zagreb Radio.
Seungyon-Seny Lee
• Je est un Autre II (2000), for 3 dancers, video images, installations, and computer-generated
sounds
Je est un Autre II is a journey of the imagination and an aesthetic evolution of its ingredients. The
cycle consists of four pieces, each composed for different media. Electro-acoustic music and visual
images are combined in the first piece, dance, video images, installations, and computer generated
sound in the second, Instrumental sextet and theater in the third, and a sound installation with
ceramics in the fourth. In these pieces, Imagination, as a metaphor for the unconscious, signifies
the existence which struggles within an ego.
The raw acoustic materials used in Je est un Autre II are recordings of the sounds from nature.
These sounds were electronically processed, creating a broad palette timbres and sonic textures.
These transformed materials are used to develop diverse musical layers, inviting the listener to
interpret the music through his own imagination.
The imaginary phase of the unconscious is further represented in the piece by projected images.
The images were chosen for their symbolic references to internal psychological states.
Dance in Je est un Autre IF' is used continue the exploration of concepts originally presented Je
est un Autre I. The three dancers roughly signify the three phases of becoming an individuated
being, as theorized by Jacque Lacan; the Real (need), the Imaginary (demand), and the Symbolic
(desire). Choreography was influenced by 'ABECEDA' by Karel Teige and Vtezslav Nezval (1926).
The gestures of the dancers depict letters of the alphabet, spelling out terminology used by Lacan
in French.
The installation is intended to convey aspects of Lacan's linguistic structure of discourse. The
three panels used as props by the dancers represent the phases of the linguistic process. Discourse
originates in the unconscious (represented by the plastic sheet). The abstract form of the idea
filters through the memory (the transparent scrim), and is formulated as language (the newspaper
sheet).
• Je est un Autre (Self is Other) (1999/2000)
Je est un Autre is a journey of imagination and an aesthetic evolution of its ingredients. The total
work will consist of four 5-10 minute pieces; combining electro-acoustic music, and visual images in
the first piece, and performance elements in the second piece. The third piece will consist of only
acoustic instruments, a sextet, and the fourth piece will be performed with a ceramics exhibition
in a gallery in Rome, Italy.
In these pieces, Imagination, as a metaphor for the unconscious, signifies the existence which
struggles within an ego, in memory and in reality, from nil to eternity.
The raw acoustic material will be recordings of the sound of running water, shaking rice, and
insects. The sounds will be electronically processed, creating a broad palette of timbres and sonic
textures. These transformations will be used to develop diverse musical layers, inviting the listener
to interpret the music through his own imagination.
The imagery for the piece will include animation and photographs. The images were chosen for
their symbolic reference to internal psychological states. The animation will be an abstraction
of the photographs, signifying the elements of the unconscious which form wishes, desires, and
symbols.
In Je est un Autre I, a fish tank will be placed in front of the video projector. The shadow effect
of rippling water delivers images which refer to the unconscious as the foundation of all being.
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