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| Friday, March 12, 2004
Theatre > interview with George Chua on Atlas : Invisible Cities George Chua talks about his latest work at the Esplanade, Atlas : Invisible Cities, with Charlene Lim.1. How much care do you give your music in terms of form, choosing of sounds, layering and sampling? The care I gave it was one of constantly reminding myself to let the sounds be and allow the quality of the sounds to collaborate with me to dictate the form. The essence is what I spend a lot of time working on. 2. Now that you have so much flexibility with your music, what would you do with it? The flexibility is born out of freedom. It gives me the liberty to swerve my work in whichever way I it takes me. My new work which is going to be presented on 26th of June at The Substation. It will be part of experimental film presentation by British filmmaker Guy Sherwin and local filmmaker Lynn Loo called Flicker Orchestrated. I will do live music to some of their films that works more with texture then narrative. I will use melodies more this time and the form will be like water with ripples and light flickering over it. This freedom comes with a responsibility that only the Holy Spirit can help carry. The only thing I can do is to pray, 'Holy Spirit, come take over.' 3. Do you perform with a 'score' or is your work improvised on the spot? I improvise the arrangement but the essence is define before the performance as all the sound materials are already selected and molded though the sounds morph according to the changes given to it during the performance. The score is in my head.
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