Music – dissonance productions

LiebeBitchenLieder

LiebeBitchenLieder is a postcolonial song-cycle in the lieder (art song) tradition. The art song genre flourished during the Romantic era and was performed in the parlors frequented by the privileged…

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2024 Generative / Interactive Music

SatiricAI

SatiricAI investigates the potential of Generative AI for commentary and resistance by drawing upon the historical praxis of the satirical song, in response to SingAiBore), Stephen prompts LLM (Large Language…

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2024 Generative / Interactive Music

SingAiBore

SingAiBore uses Generative AI as a tool of critique and resistance, instead of wallowing in current debates on creativity, economy, privacy etc. by using the oft-critiqued generic outputs from Generative…

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2023 Generative / Interactive Music

DE-RAIL

A series of what Stephen terms "Shinkansen sonatas", music composed and performed on Japan shinkansen (high-speed bullet trains) in tandem with the fleeting rail-side scenery, embodying the contradictory states of…

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2023 Generative / Interactive Music

Shinkansen Suite

Shinkansen Suite comprise generative meditations on technology and progress (philosophically and literally on Shinkansen routes). The soundtrack for passing rail-side scenery is generated algorithmically via various methods, which in turn…

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2022 2023 Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography Writing

nūbēs obscura

Shortly before his two week backpacking traverse of Baffin Island in 2022, Stephen received the diagnosis his glaucoma had worsened rapidly and he had lost a significant chunk of his…

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2021 Film Generative / Interactive Music

Tan-Ka

TAN-KA plays on TAN (dialect pronunciation of Chen - Stephen's last name) and KA (Egyptian hieroglyph depicting "soul" or "spirit" of a person that survives the death of the body)…

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2020 Installation / Site Music

Music Boxed

Capturing the zeitgeist of confinement and tedium quarantine, Stephen transposes his musical compositions onto a programmable music box mechanism. manually marking out and punching out the notes onto the card…

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2018 Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography

Aye Few Clamored

An anagram and extension of

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2018 Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography Writing

we’re made of clay

WE'RE MADE OF CLAY alludes to common threads in creation myths and Native American ruins in the American Southwest. Like

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2017 Film Installation / Site Music Writing

Gone Dyke

GONE DYKE is a multi modal work of performance/poetry/music/photography/video that explores the queer in landscape, and the queer as landscape via the Klondike Gold Rush. At its core is an…

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2017 Music

Lieder Ohne Kunst

LIEDER OHNE KUNST (Songs Without Art) is a retrospective of the alt-Classical songs/cycles Stephen Chen had composed and performed as part of his subversive recital practice, whereby politics and performance art…

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