Interview Date : March 6, 2009.
Interview Place : San Jose, CA.
Original interview length : 1h20min.
Edited interview length : 36min.
Some answers...
On interdisciplinary collaborations
- Music & Theatre as collaborative practices.
- A shift happened and specialization appeared.
- Collaboration & interdisciplinarity as a mean to undo hyper-specialization that’s the result of late modernization.
- As we construct interdisciplinary programs, we do have special conferences, special vocabulary, etc. We have to resist this.
On music, sound design and collaboration
- Music Composition: traditional music VS Sound Design: the use of everyday life sounds. Both are valid ways to express creativity.
- Music has retained the idea of the conservatory. It hasn’t undergone the transformations the contemporary art is taught.
- This is an obstacle for people of DANM interacting with music departments.
On the audience's perception of sound
- Multimedia audience transfixed by image and relatively indifferent to sound is a carryover from the tradition of filmmaking.
- The film score dominates sound in movies. It is a surrogate for the actors to produce emotions. It affects people on a subliminal level to invest the visual with more energy.
- The audio can be engaging. Multimedia artist have to start allowing the interaction to hinge directly to an auditory experience.
interdisciplinarity.
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