A friend once told me, that a true conversation, must by necessity, travel long distances...

PREMIERED NOV 5, 2021 AT THE MAXMACHINA NEUROVERSE FESTIVAL AT NEW YORK LIVE ARTS, NYC.

Doppelgänger

PERFORMANCE

This is me, talking to my future. A double, made of echoes and reverberations.

I relive a life of leaving and returning through conversation with a past self —

Photos by Maria Baranova

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Doppelgänger is a duet manufactured out of time delay.
A real-time stream of the performer is algorithmically manipulated as it appears in a life-size projection. The resulting duet vacillates between a simple canon of delayed repetition and the illogical sense that the live feed is responding to the past or perhaps even anticipating the future.

 

 

Music Excerpt from Sonata No. 5 in C Major by Baldassare Galuppi. Pianist: Cheng-zong Yin.