Before I study sound arts, I was considering myself as a musician or a composer, since I am interested music and started to write music and Folk, Blues and rock music seems to talk to me most when I started to learn music. For music, Syd Barrett, Nick Drake and John Lennon inspired me a lot. By listen to their work, the idea of minimalism is interested me most where it gives more space for the audience to wander around the pieces. I went to the arts high school when I was I5 and by that time, I decided music would be my career and I wanted to learn more about. Interestingly, I did not just learned music in there, I also started to explorer different art form, such as performing art, visual art, films. I started to think can we use sound as the medium of art rather than just the conventional way to doing it which called music.
Then during the course, my interested in wild camping and outdoor survival increases, and field recording become a tool for me to capture the experience sonically. Acoustic ecology and deep ecology become the theme of most of my uni works. The most straightforward way to use and interact with recording materials are soundscapes composition, which became my regular practice in the first half to the degree. However, in terms of producing work, I am also interested in improving and performing. During the course, Lucas and I form a duo for noise improvisation. I am playing guitar and effects and Lucas play no-input mixer. We played few gigs and wish to release and perform more after we graduated. In terms of other medium, I had a collaboration project with Miles and Aparna alone with a butoh dancer Mai last year. This increase my interest in improving with dancers and that would be the work that I am planning to do in the future as well. My goal is to combine field recording, natural soundscapes into improvisation performance. That is my artist goal at the moment.