This collaborative work was developed with the interdisciplinary visual and dance artist Oh Yujin (stage name: Hongsil). It is based on an algorithm designed to enable real-time performance of improvisational sonic transformation, playback, and sampling processes. At the same time, the system allows real-time control of new colorization applied to the movement of a subject captured through a camera. The work premiered at EMU Artspace, a multidisciplinary cultural venue in the Gwanghwamun district of Seoul. The performance was realized before the completion of the building’s interior construction, utilizing two unfinished doors as architectural elements around which lighting, projection mapping, and an audio system were integrated.
On the left side of the space, the performer’s shadow is cast, while on the right a processed silhouette of the performer appears. Within this silhouette, fluid light—unfixed and continuously transforming—mutates in real time, causing distortions in the figure’s form. Through the mediation of the shadow, the work attempts to reveal an archetypal internal energy of the living body, a pulsating and restless vitality.
The sound material consists of recordings of door-opening and door-closing noises, combined with human screams and laughter recorded by Shuchen (Malaysia). These sounds were used as samples and processed through audio signal processing techniques to produce a wide spectrum of emotional expressions.
By removing everyday sounds from their original contexts, the work explores their latent potential through diverse forms of audio processing, testing new musical trajectories. These sonic transformations unfold alongside the fluid movement of the dancer, becoming intertwined with the performer’s evolving narrative. The dancer continuously investigates and pursues the primordial energy that writhes within their own shadow.
The dancer’s presence appears simultaneously in two forms: the moving physical body and its projected counterpart. The immediate body is revealed as a cold, monochromatic silhouette, while within it vibrates a primordial vitality—an energetic pulsation resembling a mass of magma, a fluid state where multiple potentials coexist without fixed direction. This condition is mirrored in the sound: familiar everyday noises, originally embedded in defined contexts, are sampled and recontextualized in real time, producing an indeterminate field of sonic potential in which multiple emotional trajectories remain simultaneously present.
