Transsonic, Nicola L. Hein and Viola Yip, is an experimental transmedial duo that creates immersive site-specific performances and installations bridging the vibrations of light and sound. Having a musical background, they look into the ontology of sound and how musical experience can be transformed beyond its common material—sound. For their artistic research project, Transsonic explore light as an expanded musical material. They research and create performances, improvising between lights and sounds as equally important but dialectical musical materials. Transsonic has been commissioned by Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Seanaps Festival Leipzig and Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago. They have also presented at New York University, Experimental Intermedia NYC, CCRMA at Stanford University, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Sonic Lab in SARC at Queen’s University Belfast, University of Huddersfield, Oxford University, New Interface for Musical Expression (NIME) conference, Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Klex Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong Arts Center, De Tanker in Amsterdam, Gare du Nord in Basel, Classical Beat Festival in Travemünde, Blurred Edges Festival in Hamburg, Currents/ Festival für aktuelle Tiefkultur Köln, A L’arme Festival and Experimentik in Berlin.

Commissioned by A4 as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union and supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council and Bratislava City Foundation. Supported by the International Visegrad Fund.

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