One-Page Score Project: Alex Zhang/prOphecy sun

One-Page Score Project w/Vancouver Electronic Ensemble

“Johonin Bunchy Principle Crosstalk”
One-Page Score created by Alex Zhang
Music composition and performance by prOphecy sun

This special spring edition of Vancouver New Music’s One-Page Score Project invites workshop participants to create their own one-page graphic score, and collaborate with a member of the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble to realize their creation.

Starting on Tuesday, May 19, 2020 we’ll host the live premiere of 2 new scores weekly at noon (PDT) for 4 weeks right here on our YouTube channel. We invite you to join us live, or listen later at your leisure.

https://newmusic.org/ops-may-june-2020/
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Artist Statement – prOphecy sun
Johonin Bunchy Principle Crosstalk is a sound piece based on Alex Zhang’s abstract one-page score from 2020 (see Fig. 1). The work references the Banana bunchy top virus – a plant pathogenic disease in which infected plants are stunted with top heavy leaves; crosstalk, in which multiple signals align or create discontinuity; and, Gestalt psychology, in which the whole is considered first before the individual parts.

Johonin Bunchy Principle Crosstalk was recorded and performed live in one-take using consumer grade technologies such as an iPhone, Shure Condenser Microphone, 1987 Casio PT-100, and edited in post. The composition consists of vocal, processed, stretched, granulated and sequenced tones, multiple currents, polyphonic sound, harsh and buzzy synth notes, and other thick improvised patterns to unify and draw attention to the underlying rich visual score.

PROPHECY SUN is an interdisciplinary performance artist, movement, video and sound maker, mother and Ph.D. Candidate at the School of Interactive Arts + Technology at Simon Fraser University. Originally from Vancouver, she is currently living in Nelson on the unceded territories of the Ktunaxa, Syilx and Sinixt peoples. Informed by her creative studies in vocal and movement improvisation, her practice celebrates both conscious and unconscious moments and the vulnerable spaces of the inbetween in which art, performance, and life overlap. Her recent research has focused on ecofeminist perspectives, co-composing with voice, objects, surveillance technologies, and site-specific engagements along the Columbia Basin region and beyond.

She performs and exhibits regularly in local, national and international settings, music festivals, conferences and galleries and has authored several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and journal publications. She is also a founding member of the Vancouver Electronic Ensemble (VEE), Girls Rock Camp Vancouver, and hosts a show on Kootenay Co-Op Radio (KRC). And, past shows include Destroy Vancouver at VIVO Media Art Centre, 15+ Soundscape at Arts Commons (AB), Surrey Art Gallery, Vancouver International Jazz Festival, 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Festival des Musiques Creation (QB), Soundasaurus Media Arts Festival (AB), Signal and Noise Media Festival 10, Exploding Cinema (UK), Square Waves Festival.