Films

Sound Art

A Song I sing in Darkness

A song I sing in darkness is an effort of [un]forgetting. Collecting materials from public and personal archive sources and Vietnamese films and TV sound track, the track grapples with feelings of sustaining in the ungraspable space of memory. Through manipulating and layering these sources, I try to hold on/recall/meditate upon my personal past memory of the Sài Gòn soundscape, which has been altered by distance, by time, by gentrification process, by the violent history and world memory. In abstracting the diverse sonic experience, the piece aspires to be an impermanent imagination of what memory had been and could have been, of place that can't never be once more, and the songs we have to hold on to, at the infinity of darkness.


Sonic Memories Sound Art Residency with
Media Arts Comittee, Vancouver

At the very diffracting point, crisscrossed and boiled


Sound of the Sun 3 Residency at UNIT/PITT Gallery