R/nR
Multi-channel interactive sound installation for choreographic performance enclosure. With custom-built PVC speaker tubes, integrated sound objects and live music and movement. Collaborators: Daria Fain (choreography), Robert Kocik (spatial design), Kenta Nagai (speaker design, live performance), Michelle Nagai (electronics, composition, live performance). Presented: Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY (2008).
Listen to RnR.mp3 (2:28)
Read review (PAJ - MIT Press, Sep. 2009)
Imagescape:Soundscape:Landscape
Durational performance and installation via two-channel live video, four-channel live sound. Ursula Scherrer (video and projection screens), Michelle Nagai (sound). Presented: New Genres XV, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa OK (2008).
Listen to sound excerpt (3:13)
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Photo: Tom Payne
Synthetic Hand Holding, V.1 & V.2
Sound and video performance, with wearable interactivity components for audience members. Multi-channel live sound and video mixing, with Ursula Scherrer (video), Michelle Nagai (audio). Presented: Roulette, New York NY, v.1 & Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY, v.2 (2007).
Link to video excerpt (5:59)
Photos: Kenta Nagai
Where I Hear, Were I There
Composition for field recordings, de-tuned radios, live electronics and 16-channel hemispherical speaker array. Commissioned by the American Composers Forum and Jerome Foundation’s Composers Commissioning Program. Realized with the support of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Create@iEAR! Residency. Performed: The Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy NY & Deep Listening Space, Kingston NY (2004).
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Photos: Curtis Bahn & Stephan Moore
From Moving Off Center
Four-channel sound installation with text and chair, commissioned by the Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY for Elevator Music III (2004).
Listen to sound excerpt (9:01)
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some recent--live-performed-multimedia-durational-site-specific-installation--works
Untitled Sit: Snow Is Falling Quietly
Observation score and performance-installation. Performed: Load of Fun Gallery, Transmodern Festival, Baltimore MD (2005).
Link to score and performance notes (pdf)
Untitled Sit: 13II05, 26II05, 20XI05
Observation scores for various private homes (2005).
Link to video excerpt (5:22)
All Untitled Sit Photos: Kenta Nagai