The second concert of "Concert for 1 Person" series 0404:
live set by su dance110 and elif gülin soğuksu
electronics, voice 
recorded on 04042022, Berlin
mixed by su dance110, mastered by elif gülin soğuksu
the key words of this concert 精灵流光 (essential, spirit, & motion glow) were contributed by the audience

"Concert for 1 Person" is a concert series that happens once a month on the date which has the same number of the month(3.3, 4.4, 5.5, 6.6....) starting from March 2022. This concert series is about "Get intimate and get personal; One but not the only". It invites the audience to experience the maximum intimacy and freedom while listening. The input from the audience is taken as the inspiration to the live set.

精灵流光 [CF1P0404]

The third concert of "Concert for 1 Person" series 0505 took place outdoor in a garden:
live set by 
su dance110(analogue synthesizer, tools, voice)
Shun Momose (percussion feedback and modified guitar)
recorded on 05052022, Berlin
䁝 (shimmering) was the experience described by the audience

"Concert for 1 Person" is an experimental concert series that happens once a month on the date which has the same number of the month(3.3, 4.4, 5.5, 6.6....) starting from March 2022. This concert series is about "Get intimate and get personal; One but not the only". It invites the audience to experience the maximum intimacy and freedom while listening. The input from the audience is taken as the inspiration to the live set.

䁝 [CF1P0505]

The fourth concert of "Concert for 1 Person" series 0606 Sonic Homeopathy 
live set by
su dance110 (electronics, text)
and Mizuki Ishikawa (electronics)
recorded on 06062022, outdoor, Berlin

Equipment setup: electronics, text playback through speaker, ambient sound playback from recorder to speaker, headphones for synthesised sound and text reading.
Audience listening environment: outdoor garden, occasionally small rain, cloudy, listen with umbrella and headphones.
Audience hearing sound sources: bypass natural ambient sound, bypass playback of ambient sound, simulated ambient sound and text reading through headphones.

Concept: We simulate and interact with the natural ambient sound on two layers. The first layer is the real time playback of the natural ambient sound. The second layer is the simulated ambient sound through synthesizers. Audience listens through headphones with the ambient mode, meaning the natural ambient and simulated ambient sound could bypass the headphones in addition to what is played through the headphones. The ambiguity between what is natural or what is simulated/artificial is thus created in the listening experience. Through the multi-layered set up, the natural sound is diluted through digital devices. The homeopathic listening to the surroundings is encouraged. 

Natural factors that affected the set: wind, birds, rain drops, voice, ambient noise.
The recording is the mix of the recording of natural ambient sound, real time playback of the natural ambient sound and the simulated ambient sound. 

"Concert for 1 Person" is an experimental concert series that happens once a month on the date which has the same number of the month(3.3, 4.4, 5.5, 6.6....) starting from March 2022. As a resistance to the hierarchical setting how live music is often played, this concert series is about "Get intimate and get personal". The settings for the concerts are experiments with considerations taken into account for the audience and their inputs.

Sonic Homeopathy [CF1P0606]

The fifth concert of "Concert for 1 Person" series 0707 Map for Belonging
A sound walk with
Wei Kang Beh (field recording, coffee making tools, conversation)
su dance110 (field recording, voice, electronics feedback, conversation)
and the audience (conversation)

recorded during the walk according to a sonic map, on 07072022 in Berlin

The theme of this concert is “The sense of belonging”. We collected a short interview with the audience about the meaning of “the sense of belonging” and the location that reminded the audience of “home”. We designed a sonic map according to the audience’s answers and our own answers. The map is a score for blind walks, field recording playbacks and stations of live acts, shared through our conversations happening casually along. Space within a space was created. The recording captured sonically in real time of this journey. 

Key time point summary:
00:00 conversation about sense of belonging at the cafe
00:19 blind walk with field recording playback of the cafe
00:32 electronics feedback and voice
00:38 conversation about the reflection of the previous blindfolded listening 
00:49 set up, coffee making in public, field recording playback
01:17 coffee drinking in silence
01:21 conversation about home


CF1P "Concert for 1 Person" is an experimental concert series that happens once a month on the date which has the same number of the month(3.3, 4.4, 5.5, 6.6....) starting from March 2022. This concert series is about "Get intimate and get personal". It invites the audience to experience the maximum intimacy and freedom while listening. The input from the audience is taken as the inspiration to the live set and experience.

Map for Belonging [CF1P0707]

The sixth "Concert for 1 Person" (CF1P): 0808 MY LOVE IS FAKE
is a listening experiment using both AI and human generated poem.

JacqNoise (modular synthesizer, AI generated poem)
su dance110 (synthesizer, voice, human generated poem, experiment score)
recorded indoor environment on 08082022 in Berlin

This listening experiment applies a two-way factorial experimental design: two different versions of poem using the same set of words, one generated by AI and the other generated by me; read by computer female voice, male voice and my voice, resulting in six variations of the poem reading. The audience was provided with the information of these six readings and its order except for the information about which poem is generated by AI. We played both the pre-recorded and live soundscape during the poem reading. Afterwards the audience was asked about their guess which is the AI generated poem and shared with us their experience.

You are welcome to participate the reflection through our recording and leave comments: 
What is your guess, which poem is generated by AI?
What do you prefer, the machine/algorithms or human?


CF1P "Concert for 1 Person" is an experimental concert series that happens once a month on the date which has the same number of the month(3.3, 4.4, 5.5, 6.6....) starting from March 2022, initiated by su dance110. The format or the live set are influenced by the audience's participation each time. Each time just for one audience, and a unique and intimate experience.

MY LOVE IS FAKE [CF1P0808]

The seventh "Concert for 1 Person" (CF1P): 
0909 Anim_A is an organ concert performance for the sleepless.

Romain Bertheau (organ)
su dance110 (organ, voice, movement)
recorded at Taborkirche Berlin on 09092022

“Relations are flakes.
They melt when it’s raining. 
At the end of the day, 
you wake up.
Beautiful sunlight,   
paralyzed in tears.”

The concert was performed with a composition of movement score, written score, and improvised voice. It was recorded in two different spaces, one from the church, and the other inside the organ. The audience was invited to experience in both spaces. Inside the organ, the voice was heard through bluetooth speaker, accompanied intimately by the noise from the organ pipes.

CF1P "Concert for 1 Person" is an experimental concert series initiated by su dance110. It happens once a month on the date which has the same number of the month(3.3, 4.4, 5.5, 6.6....) starting from March 2022. The format or the live set are influenced by the audience's participation each time. Each time just for one audience, and a unique and intimate experience.

Anim_A [CF1P0909]

The tenth "Concert for 1 Person" [CF1P1212]:
"Am 爱 in the Nature" is a concert walk in the Rock Creek Park, Washington DC

su dance110 (voice, 4-channel speakers, recorder)

December in Rock Creek Park, near sunset time, there is still water flowing by, while other shallow parts are already frozen. Brown and sparse green are lazily scattered. Me and the only audience walked down to the thin river, prolonging the silence before the sounds embarked. I prepared four independent recordings for playing back. The audience had two speakers and I had another two. We both listened through headphones from the recorder. While all four speakers playing at the same time, I sang along and live mixed the 4-channel sound by moving their relative positions. The recording you hear is the mix of the live performance and the four pre-recorded sound. While I was singing, I stared into the sky which faded its dark blue into the end of the river. I wonder if that met the spirit of the native American passing by or settling here thousands years ago.

CF1P "Concert for 1 Person" is an experimental concert series initiated by su dance110. It happens once a month on the date which has the same number of the month(3.3, 4.4, 5.5, 6.6....) starting from March 2022. The format or the live set are influenced by the audience's participation each time. Each time just for one audience, and a unique and intimate experience.

Am 爱 in the Nature [CF1P1212]

The eleventh "Concert for 1 Person" [CF1P0101]:
"Homeless Touched Dog" is a site-specific concert taken place at a non-place in Berlin, for three separate random audiences in a row.

Guido Kohn (cello)
su dance110 (voice, synthesiser)

This concert took place at a tunnel which connected two parks with trains passing by on top of our head and the Spree next to it. A non-place is a place we do not normally live in, in which the individuals remains anonymous and lonely. We arrived at this tunnel and it was windy and cold with sparse rain drops. We asked if the homeless person who stayed in the tunnel would like to be our first audience. They replied they would like some symphony. With our scale, we did what we could with our experimental music. At the end, they could not tell if they enjoyed it or not but they gave us a new pack of Christmas star cookies. The second audience told that there seemed to be a message from us and it touched their current living situation, though they had to end us earlier. The last audience came with their dog which almost joined us as a trio.

CF1P "Concert for 1 Person" is an experimental concert series initiated by su dance110. It happens once a month on the date which has the same number of the month(3.3, 4.4, 5.5, 6.6....) starting from March 2022. The format or the live set are influenced by the audience's participation each time. Each time just for one audience, and a unique and intimate experience.

HTDog [CF1P0101]

The last "Concert for 1 Person":
Sailor [CF1P0202] by  
Kaan Bulak (piano, electronics)
su dance110 (voice, electronics)
live performed at Feralnote Berlin, mixed by Kaan Bulak

CF1P "Concert for 1 Person" is an experimental concert series initiated by su dance110. It happens once a month on the date which has the same number of the month(3.3, 4.4, 5.5, 6.6....) starting from March 2022. The format or the live set are influenced by the audience's participation each time. Each time just for one audience, and a unique and intimate experience.

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