Xiaoyu Kang – Looking Outwards – 10

The project that I looked at is named Data Peluda. It is a performance done by Jorge Chikiar and Luis Conde at Roseti in Buenos Aires, on August 11, 2017. Jorge Chikiar is a composer and sound artist from Argentina. He has worked at many places such as Colon Theater, CETC, and Michell  Maccarone’s Art Gallery. He has been experimenting with different ways to present music for many years, and many of his project involves the use of different kinds of computer technologies.

This performance itself used a combination of saxophone and computer technologies. The music that the audience heard is the sound of the saxophone modified electronically by the computer. The processed sound turns out to be a combination of classic instrumental music and contemporary music. The most impressive part of this performance is that the music is produced live, which means that the process of modifying the saxophone music happened at the same time as the saxophone is played. I found this to be a great example of how computers are used in live music performances.