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Fire is Scary

On the very morning of the 18th of March 2019, I had a bizarre dream, so I wrote it down in half-sleep, and then the Utrecht shooting incident happened, which was very near my house. I scrabbled about the experience and my feelings towards it at night. Later, I decided to write a new text using two writings of that day as material, wondering how much or what kind of personal traces would remain if I treat them as sets of words or sentences and tried not to involve myself in them. 

The project Fire is Scary starts from that day's text and continues experimenting with as many forms as text, installation, recorded music, visual album, workshop and exhibition by the collective Fire is Scary.  

00:00 / 02:09

Fire is Scary movement 1. Fire is Scary

written by Gordon H, Williams
played by Agustin Faundez Rojas
sung by Arial Sin Yu Lee

About the ways to take texts off from the letters and place them in space.

Installation view/ Sound devices and Spectrogram for the performance/ <so you should play on a swing>, Bradwolff projects, Amsterdam, 2021. Photo © Gert Jan van Rooij

A vibration speaker and laser pointer that reinterpreted Koenig's manometric flame apparatus (a device created by a German physicist in 1862 to visualize sound)
and a rotating mirror which shows the waveform of sound/ <so you should play on a swing>, Bradwolff project, Amsterdam, 2021. 

Installation view/ Drums and a Kaleidoscope for Performance/ <so you should play on a swing>
Bradwolff projects, Amsterdam, 2021. Photo © Gert Jan van Rooij

Installation view of Kaleidoscope/ <so you should play on a swing>, Bradwolff projects, Amsterdam, 2021. Photo © Gert Jan van Rooij

Performing view of Kaleidoscope/ <so you should play on a swing>, Bradwolff projects, Amsterdam, 2021. Photo © Chun Yao Lin

Performing view/ <so you should play on a swing>, Bradwolff projects, Amsterdam, 2021. Photo © Chun Yao Lin


Installation for the Performance- Reading Spectrograms Using the App/ <so you should play on a swing>, Bradwolff projects, Amsterdam, 2021. Photo © Chun Yao Lin


Settings for spectrogram reading performance using the app/ two parts of an old printing machine, score for performing/ <Foraging in Idleness>, Moira Expo, Utrecht, 2021. Photo © Alëna Evinokurova


Drawings to Record the Sounds/ Pencil, Charcoal, Gesso, Print Transfer on Paper and Panel and Digital drawing,
Techniques from the book 'Pictures of Sound'/ 30x60cm each/ 2021

Visual Album with the Fire is Scary music downloading link/ Design by Tammie Kang/ 2021

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