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INTERMEDIA

 

When water has perfect memories- Toffia (10') 2025

Immersive audiovisual installation

Residency: 33 Officina Creativa

2025    33 Officina Creativa (33OC), Toffia, Italy

Multiverse (8') 2024 

Audiovisual, field recording, mask puppet, live green screen

2025    Holden Chapel, Harvard University, U.S.

2024    Paine Hall, Harvard University, U.S. Watch

Strawberry Creek Redefined (6') 2024 

Audiovisual work with processed field recordings

Co-creator: Simona Fitcal (visuals)

2026    Walking Festival of Sound, Cambridge, MA, U.S.

Commission: Thingamajigs, Oakland, CA, U.S.

2024    Redlined Redefined interactive map  Watch

Foreign Earth (8') 2023

Custom instrument, vocals, animations

Co-creator: Hassan Estakhrian

2026    Playgrounds of Sound, CalPoly, U.S.

2025    ICMC International Computer Music Conference, Boston, U.S.

2024    Accidental Theatre, Belfast, NIR., U.K.

2024    CCRMA, Stanford University. U.S.  Watch

2024    New York University. U.S.

2023    Paine Hall, Harvard University, U.S.

2023    University of Guelph, Canada

2023    New Music Gathering, Portland, OR, U.S.

Beauty Standards (7') 2023

Immersive audiovisual installation with custom smart mirrors

Co-creator: Seiyoung Jang

Grant: Cornell Council for the Arts

2024    Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Cornell University  Watch

2023    Paine Hall, Harvard University  Watch

Prosimetrum (5') 2023

Organ piece with live custom hand puppetry from the organ gallery

Commission: Nathan Mondry (organist, U.S.)

2023    Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University

Jaack (25') 2022

Collaborator: Simona Fitcal (interactive visuals)

Puppets, custom smart mirrors, interactive visuals, electronic music, and string quartet

Commission: JACK Quartet (U.S.)

2023    Mannes School of Music, Manhattan, NY, U.S.  Watch

Space Junk (10') 2022

Custom instrument, vocals, animations

Co-creator: Hassan Estakhrian

2026    Playgrounds of Sound, CalPoly, U.S.

2025    Holden Chapel, Harvard University, U.S.

2024    CCRMA, Stanford University. U.S.

2023    Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand

Behind the scenes (5'30'') 2022

Micro-documentary with animation and live percussion duo

2022    NOMON: Cornell Cinema, U.S.

Pro5ling (8'30'') 2022 

An improviser on custom instrument with FX in front of a custom smart mirror with AI generated art

2022    Greg Stuart: Milstein Hall, Cornell University, U.S.  Watch

Whose Turn Is It Anyway (25') 2021

An improv musical puppet theatre project for 6 people (video score)

2023    Harvard New Ensemble: Harvard University, U.S. (Excerpts)

2021    Stanford New Ensemble: Stanford University, U.S.

Peeter & the Woolf (3') 2020 

Chamber Orchestra & SMATB with puppet and video

Collaborator: Simona Fitcal (video)

2025    Puppet Power 2025

2020    orkest de ereprijs: 26th Young Composers Meeting, Apeldoorn, NL  Watch

Speed Dating (10') 2019

Ambisonics and three-screen video with puppet

Collaborator: Simona Fitcal (video)

2025    Puppet Power 2025

2022    MANTIS Festival, University of Manchester, U.K.

2021    Audiovisual Frontiers, University of California, Riverside, U.S.

2020    Sonorities Festival Belfast, Belfast, NIR, U.K.

2019    Bing Concert Hall, Stanford University, U.S.  Watch

Ethonosexualization (6’) 2016

Septet (soprano saxophone, EWI, 2 electric guitars, electric bass, accordion, and drum) with video and 3 actors

Collaborator: XinXin Lin (film)

2017    Winner, The American Prize in Opera, Theater, Film, Dance-- Student Division

​2017    Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

Grant: Experimental Performance Lab Technology Support Grant

2016    Experimental Performance Lab (xMPL) at University of California, Irvine, U.S.

2016    Experimental Performance Lab (xMPL) at University of California, Irvine, U.S.  Watch

Different Mirrors (N/A) 2016

I. Oral Languages (Korean, English, Chinese, Cantonese, and Vietnamese)

Collaborator: Khue Bui (visuals)

I. Two string instruments, pre-recorded tracks, and visual arts 

2017    Winner, The American Prize in Opera, Theater, Film, Dance-- Student Division

2017    Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

Grant: Experimental Performance Lab Technology Support Grant

2016    Experimental Performance Lab (XMPL) at University of California, Irvine, U.S.

II. Writings (Chinese, Persian, Korean, Vietnamese, Hindi, and Japanese)

Collaborator: Christopher Wong (visuals)

II. Two woodwind instruments from different cultures and visual arts

2017    Winner, The American Prize in Opera, Theater, Film, Dance-- Student Division

2017    Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

Grant: Experimental Performance Lab Technology Support Grant

2016    Experimental Performance Lab (xMPL) at University of California, Irvine, U.S.  Watch

2016    Orange County Museum of Arts, Newport Beach, CA, U.S.

Mother & Daughter  (N/A) 2016

Vocal, taiko, and photography

Collaborator: Chien-yin Hsieh (photography)

2017    Winner, The American Prize in Opera, Theater, Film, Dance-- Student Division

2017    Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

Grant: Experimental Performance Lab Technology Support Grant

2016    Experimental Performance Lab (xMPL) at University of California, Irvine, U.S.  Watch

To be continued (9’) 2016

Octet (soprano saxophone, EWI, 2 electric guitars, electric bass, accordion, drum, and piano) and film

2017    Winner, The American Prize in Opera, Theater, Film, Dance-- Student Division

2017    Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

Grant: Experimental Performance Lab Technology Support Grant

2016    Experimental Performance Lab (xMPL) at University of California, Irvine, U.S.

Cultural Spacesuit (8’) 2015

Quintet (bass clarinet, electric guitars, electric bass, harp, piano, and electronics) and a bilingual actor

2017    Winner, The American Prize in Opera, Theater, Film, Dance-- Student Division

2017    Finalist, ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards

Grant: Experimental Performance Lab Technology Support Grant

2016    Experimental Performance Lab (xMPL) at University of California, Irvine, U.S.  Watch

SCORING & SOUND DESIGN

Lucky (5') 2020

Animation score

2020    University of California, Los Angeles Capstone Project

Missing Ingredient (5') 2019

Animation score

2020    University of California, Los Angeles Capstone Project

Intermedia Musical: Tdot (40') 2018

Theatre music and sound design

2018    National Taiwan Normal University Capstone Project

Kokoro (5') 2015

Original score for documentary OMW

String quartet, piano, and taiko

Grant: Mentor Graduate Diversity Awards

2015    Motion Capture Studio at University of California, Irvine, U.S.

Song of Magic Birds (n/a) 2015

Original score for documentary OMW

Violin, cello, and piano

Grant: Mentor Graduate Diversity Awards

2015    Motion Capture Studio at University of California, Irvine, U.S.

Urban Romance (6') 2015

Original score for documentary OMW

Violin, cello, and piano

Grant: Mentor Graduate Diversity Awards

2015    Motion Capture Studio at University of California, Irvine, U.S.

¡Diversi…Qué? (40') 2015

Theatre music and sound design

2015    Department of Drama, University of California, Irvine Production

Rosemary (4'30'') 2014

Animation score

2014    School of Visual Arts Capstone Project

曇華 (5') 2014

Animation score

2014    National Taiwan University of Arts Capstone Project

Ciao (5') 2014

Animation score

2014    Asia University Capstone Project

吻在月球崩毀時 (35') 2013

Theatre music and sound design

2013    National Sun Yat-Sen University Capstone Project

Deathigner (7') 2013

Animation score

2013    winner in 4C Digital Design Awards in Animation Score, Industrial Development Bureau Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan

2013    National Taiwan University of Arts Capstone Project

PUPPETRY

Up in the Sky (3') 2025

Custom toy theatre for Antenna Fuzz’s music video

2026    Playgrounds of Sound, CalPoly, U.S.

2025    Paine Hall, Harvard University, U.S.

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

 

Behind the scenes (5'30'') 2022

Synopsis: Behind the scenes ponders on the past, the present, and the uncertain future of a cultural identity through historic footage of the Taiwan Strait Crisis and autoethnographic narratives.

2022    Cornell Cinema, Cornell University, U.S.

OMW (40') 2015

Custom toy theatre for Antenna Fuzz’s music video

Synopsis: Four young 1.5 generation Taiwanese Americans living in Southern California find themselves balancing between two contrasting cultures. As emerging artists in their mid-twenties, Queena, Willie, Michun, and Michele discuss their intergenerational and personal stories and how these emotional, goofy, and yet insightful experiences shape their art and identities.

2017    Finalist of the Formosa Festival of International Filmmaker Awards

2015    Motion Capture Studio at University of California, Irvine, U.S.

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