Music

NO ROAD

NO ROAD

NO ROAD forms the core of Stephen's triptych of guerrilla performance art pieces around monuments entitled FRANKFURTWERK comprising of NO ROAD,

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900 606 dissonance productions
INTERIOR SONGS

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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1920 1080 dissonance productions
LOON SONGS

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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1280 720 dissonance productions
STILLE.D

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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1280 720 dissonance productions
THE SCHOOLING OF DESIRE

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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2560 1440 dissonance productions
TRANS-PIRE

TRANS-PIRE

To mark the final four weeks of

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1024 601 dissonance productions
PACED

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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1280 720 dissonance productions
NORTH SOUTH

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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720 480 dissonance productions
INTER-MEZZO

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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1280 720 dissonance productions
INTER-MEZZO (DEEP THROAT, HIGH PALATE)

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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800 450 dissonance productions
INTER-MEZZO (WHAT THE FACH?)

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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800 450 dissonance productions
DOH! OH DEAR, A FEMALE TEAR!

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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800 450 dissonance productions