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# Project Description History is but a Sullen Memorabilia Travis Yu Summary Final work College London College of Communication Course BA (Hons) Sound Arts Graduation year 2023 History is but a Sullen Memorabilia is a body of work consisting of radio broadcasts, performance, sound recordings, writings and film. Comprises of Swan Song, Nobody Knows, Four Concrete Walls and Mirror , the portfolio establishes a wide range of vocabularies to transcribe the embodiment of sound and listening through the artist's choice of creative expressions. Concerned about imagining sound objects as memorabilia we hold onto as time goes on, Travis elaborated on their complex relationship with their heritage as well as the environment they found themselves in the present; the juxtaposed and the correlated, all melt together into organised sound and all kinds of movements. Final work Swan Song Pt.1 Swan Song is an album recorded during the artist's residency on radio station Resonance Extra in November 2023. Born from the old site of the station, Travis utilised the space to created a sonic theatre piece where the tone of the tavern-like space, the movements of the performer, and sound objects are edited into an album consisting of 10 tracks. Inspired by the late Queen's visit to Hong Kong in 1986, Travis rewrote the history and imagined a scenario when the colony breaks free from the imperial power and establish a new found sense of nationalism. Nobody Knows “The name of the performance is taken from the song by Louis Armstrong, “Nobody knows - the trouble I’ve seen, nobody knows but Jesus.” So what I mean by the title is: God knows what kind of a past I have lived. But it doesn’t matter, I don’t have to let you in on that and carry it into the future.” “When a devastating event happens in life, you don’t have time to sulk and cry. You just have to think: ok, what can I do now to help? What can I DO to make things better?” “So the actions; the sound making and movements become a forward motion into the future, it is a contemporary rite to bring ourselves forward in time. What do I want to remember? How do I remember them? Creating new memories, growing new fruits, and making new mistakes; nobody knows, but we remember and move on.” “If the past has never been nice to you, Then from the top let’s create new memories.” “Let us be nostalgic from the beginning, Let us make mistakes over and over again, And grow a brand new fruit from it.” Performance runtime ~45m. Installation: Video projection 15m 49s, 4 channel sound system, analogue synthesisers, harmonium, harmonica, microphones, found objects, digital lighting. Performed by Miles Lukoszevieze, Tata Cheng and Travis Yu and devised by Travis Yu. Video by Travis Yu and performed by Vigin Tsang. Production assisted by Eva Leung, Jake Slipkovich and Lucas Yoshimura Wood. Four Concrete Walls “I was on my couch when I received the green light. I was as usual wasting perfectly good sunshine as a way to loathe the sensitive character I am. Am I capable of pulling this project off?” “Faith is before evidence, it is pre-sensorial; faith is the invention of the intellect. It warps and stretches the mind while you escape the structure of an egotistic analysis of self. Could we inhabit within those vibrating particles of our memories, and continue to engage just as actively as on day one?” A pseudo-artist residency conceived by the artist themselves, in search of a framework to reflect upon. That Travis utilises field recordings and ethnographic writing as a way to mourn the end of their status as an undergraduate student as well as the final years of the current building of the London College of Communication. It documented the day-to-day of the artist’s listening within the fiction, concocting new sensorial regimes within the Neo-liberal institution. A creative practice that is free from academia and elitism. To critically analyse the solid time they spent within the building as an outsider, to claim spaces through and within the audible and to translate this ambience that feedback so loudly through the building into a silently sinking table and papers. Mirror Mirror is a silent film directed by Travis, starring Vigin Tsang. It reflects on the relationship between the filmmaker and the subject and their interchanged roles of authority. Share this project History is but a Sullen Memorabilia is a body of work consisting of radio broadcasts, performance, sound recordings, writings and film. Comprises of Swan Song, Nobody Knows, Four Concrete Walls and Mirror, the portfolio establishes a wide range of v... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Activism Aesthetics Archives & Collections Body Gender Histories Identity Language Places & Spaces Story & Myth Alternative Dance Film Multisciplinary Music Performance PerformanceArt Sound Writing
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