dissonance productions

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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2013 Events / Performance Music

I-CON

I-CON is an extended piece of performance art that raises the issues and fetish of iconicity, refracted through gay (musical) icons. Through performative tactics, it attempts to question the implicit…

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Installation / Site

CALIGARI’S CABINET

A reference to the seminal 1920s film Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari, CALIGARI'S CABINET is a growing collection of interactive devices and applications that reflect on the madness and delusions…

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2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2023 Events / Performance Film Installation / Site Music

VIDEO ART + ODDS & ENDS

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