Sound/scapes at the Asian Art Museum

In 2022, I was invited to be the inaugural Sound/scapes artist at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. With access to the museum’s collection over a six month period, I created three site-specific performances in various spaces of the museum inspired by works in the collection. I am grateful to curator Janet Oh for this incredible opportunity to engage with the historic works of the museum. Read more about the project in this interview with Iris Kwok in the San Francisco Classical Voice.

Sound/scape 1: Solo performance inspired by works of Filipino American artist Carlos Villa, June 16, 2022
Sound/scape 2: In The Cave of Guanyin, a four-channel piece for cello, voice and electronics inspired by sculptures of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara/Guanyin, July 14, 2022
Sound/scape 3: Skipping Stones and Speaking Pines, performed on cello and electric guitar with Kanoko Nishi-Smith on bass koto, on paintings of Uragami Gyokudo, Tokuyama Gyokuran, and Chiura Obata, August 18, 2022

Sound/scape 1: Postcard Scores for improvisation, gouache on paper by Theresa Wong.
Click to see full image - please feel free to download these to use as prompts for improvisation.