“Âm” (“Sound”), Live @ Idecaf, Ho Chi Minh City
A companion piece to Nguyen Le Phuong Linh’s “Dictionnaire Del’image,” “Am” is a ekphrastic sound composition seeking to illustrate the emergence of language from sound. Language is dissolved to its basic components: breath, non-verbal noise using the body and external objects, improvisation, play, and other intensities, until it materializes into actual words.
Performed at Institut d’Echanges Culturels avec la France (IDECAF), Ho Chi Minh City, 27 September, 2019.