Piyawat Louilarpprasert on his piece “Tele Tera”
Watch my interview with Piyawat Louilarpprasert on his piece “Tele Tera”. It is a living installation and performative composition which situates sonic-visual experiences through the interaction between sound digitalization, light sensors, motions of visualizations, and awareness of humans in the orchestra. The piece explores the audible and visible connectivity among the soloist, performers, sounds, lights, electronics, and videos. Electric guitar acts as the main role of the drama by leading the orchestra with a variety of sonic qualities such as reverberation, distortion, granulation, and more. Electronics act as a sound reflection of the electric guitar. Orchestra acts as a sound installation that produces sonic possibilities by interacting with multiple components in the space such as human sensitivity (noises, breathing, presence of being, state of mind), sonic sensibility (drones, frequency, ambient), and visual awareness (stage, space, lights, videos, temperature, etc.). Lights act as an interactive musical instrument that responds to all the sound productions in order to construct light qualities (rhythm, speed, shade, intensity) as well as to create the simultaneous visualization that emerges together with human presences and video’s quality such as the silhouette, shadow, and moving images. The video acts as the virtual reflection of reality by digitally taking videos of performers to represent human fragments of memories, minds, and physical behaviors as an illusive installation. Ultimately, all components are connected to create a multi-cognitional experience that brings together the correspondence between human, space, sonority, visibility, objectivity, and technology.
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Originally from Bangkok, Piyawat is a Thai composer, performer, and curator who works with the interweave of music composition, visual art and sound installation. Piyawat has been awarded several grants and composition prizes such as International Coproduction Fund (IKF) — Goethe Institut, ISCM/ACL Prize 2022, MATA Festival, Mizzou Composer Festival, ASCAP Morton Gould Composer Award 2018–20–21, Lucerne Festival, Gaudeamus, Pro Helvetia, British Council, Japan Foundation, Sergei Slonimsky Award, Matan Givol Prize, Otto R. Stahl Memorial Award, Léon Goossens Prize, and Kultur Kontakt Residency and many more. In 2019, his “Smelly Tubes” was featured in CNN News World: “Young and Gifted”. His recent work, “Ohm-Na-Mo” was commissioned by Donaueschinger Musiktage for 100 years celebration in 2021. He worked with groups: Tacet(i), Arditti, Berlin Philharmonic Horn Section, Alarm Will Sound, ICE, Mozaik, Platypus, Meitar, Wet Ink, Lucerne Alumni, Switch, Omnibus, Orkest Ereprijs, Vertixe Sonora, Royal Northern Sinfonia, Princess Galyani Vadhana Youth Orchestra, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Aguascalientes Symphony Orchestra, American Composer Orchestra etc. Piyawat is recently appointed as a Visiting Lecturer position at Cornell University. He is serving as a chair for Int-Act Festival (Thailand).
