2013 – Page 2 – dissonance productions

2013 Installation / Site Visual / Photography

BOUNDED NATURE

BOUNDED NATURE is a photographic series and installation that investigates the dialectic and tension between the natural and the man-made in urban environments; how nature is contained, pruned, and rendered…

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2013 Events / Performance Installation / Site Music

INTERIOR SONGS

INTERIOR SONGS is a hybrid performance/installation piece that explores the dynamics of trace, space, introspection and observation through allegorical set pieces that regress through history. Like

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2013 Events / Performance Music

LOON SONGS

LOON SONGS updates the Romantic song cycle trope of the wayfarer into a contemporary context, tracing a day in the life of a backpacker arising in the morning chill to…

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2013 Film Music Visual / Photography

STILLE.D

STILLE.D is a meditation on Walter Benjamin's concepts of ruin (as nostalgia, regret, decay, loss), as well as the paradox of the bourgeois interior constituting both refuge and amplification of…

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2013 Events / Performance Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography

THE SCHOOLING OF DESIRE

A piece exploiting the repetition of an action and the repetition of an aria to explore the rubric of discipline (e.g. school, spinster teacher, schooled voice i.e. operatic singing, etc.),…

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2013 Music

TRANS-PIRE

To mark the final four weeks of MURDER IN PASSING, Stephen researched and recorded a new song each week in the repertoire that brackets trans expression and representation.

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2013 Film Music Visual / Photography

PACED

PACED is an experimental hybrid "tone-poem" short that explores the different dimensions of pace (as speed, as measure, as rubric for containment) in the city through time lapse, montage, and…

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2013 Film Music

NORTH SOUTH

Reworking recently rediscovered lost 15-year old footage, NORTH SOUTH is a personal and political allegory of freedom and repression in Singapore. It draws an analogy between bipolar altered reality to…

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2013 Film Music

INTER-MEZZO

INTER-MEZZO is an experimental triptych of independent yet inter-related shorts that treats the voice as a metaphor for political voice. Stephen Chen traces his journey as a male mezzo, faced…

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2013 Film Music

INTER-MEZZO (DEEP THROAT, HIGH PALATE)

INTER-MEZZO is an experimental triptych of independent yet inter-related shorts that treats the voice as a metaphor for political voice. Stephen Chen traces his journey as a male mezzo, faced…

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2013 Film Music

INTER-MEZZO (WHAT THE FACH?)

INTER-MEZZO is an experimental triptych of independent yet inter-related shorts that treats the voice as a metaphor for political voice. Stephen Chen traces his journey as a male mezzo, faced…

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2013 Film Music

DOH! OH DEAR, A FEMALE TEAR!

INTER-MEZZO is an experimental triptych of independent yet inter-related shorts that treats the voice as a metaphor for political voice. Stephen Chen traces his journey as a male mezzo, faced…

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