DJING - Disc Jockey in New Generation
by William CHAN Long Yin
Art must not be an artwork. Art can also be a kind of performance or a kind of tool which creates artwork. My idea, is to combine Art, Performance, Tool and Artwork, and the medium is using Disc jockey Music.
This idea is inspired by the idea of Reactable developed by Sergi Jordà, Marcos Alonso, Martin Kaltenbrunner and Günter Geiger, which is a musical tool where you put different boxes of electronic devices on a table platform, so that they will create sound effects to create music.
My idea is called, “Disc Jockey in New Generation” where I call it “DJING”. Which is a technology combines, two-sided monitor, multi-touch screen, and computer music composting technologies. The overall idea is that, traditionally, when we watch a DJ performance, we can only see the DJ working really busy on his equipment, or sometimes the DJs may move their bodies to create a nice atmosphere for audience. While using DJING, the audience can see each sound track in the form of sound wave, and while the DJ mix the sound tracks and adding special effect into those sound track, the audience can clearly see the adjustment to the form of sound wave, for example, increase the volume by increasing the aptitude, tuning a higher pitch by increasing the frequency, lower the tempo by stretching the sound track, and most important, the show the audience how do you rotate the disc to create incredible sound effects.
As we are using a two-sided monitor in DJING (or we can use half-hologram instead of two sided monitor), when the DJ adding sound track of making any changes to the music, the movement of the sound wave will create a moving picture on the screen, so that the DJ is not only creating music, but also a piece of new media artwork throughout the musical performance. The DJ can also moves his set up around, and use different mods and skins to create different special visual effect. They can also preset programs to change background and form of the sound wave.
Music is not only sound in my opinion. They can represent different story and emotion. DJING is such kind of tool to turn sound into something different, from sound to visual. It is an interactive new media performance art in my opinion, which brings music into another dimension.