"Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons" written by British playwright Sam Steiner debuted at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. As KenKen Theatre Workshop's third attempt to adapt and localise the play, the 2021 production was under the direction of Xu Rui and ran for seven shows at Shanghai Grand Theatre during 22 - 26 December, 2021.

Influenced by disciplines of devised theatre, most aspects of the project including its music and sound effects were crafted during a highly collaborative process. The outcomes were manifested in the forms of more than twenty tracks and sound effects that capture a wide range of colours: from absurdity to earnest realism, from absolute light-heartedness to gut-wrenching repression...

Corresponding to the play's fictional worldview, the music leans towards the electronic genre to emphasise a certain synthetic feel. It was created through synthesizers, electric guitar, noise generators, and other musical techniques such as sampling and reversed musical phrases.

Dive in the six selected tracks for a unique listening experience that provides a taste of the multifaceted nature of Steiner's brilliant play!

More about the project:
mp.weixin.qq.com/s/sASft4LW30gtZ4F_7xp7NA

View musical clips:

Don't Tell

Cheese Grater

Little Fur

Squid Ink

Gust of Wind

Improv

Joining FREE SPACE’s project exploring the relationship between artists and their unsuccessful attempts during creative practices, I picked out loops from my archive that did not develop into full-length songs with the intention of using them for unconventional songwriting practices. 

Rather than expanding these loops and letting them unfold in progression, I limited them to their own length and created inwardly through the extreme layering of sounds and melodies, paralleling practices in visual arts such as filling out blank canvas or producing sketches. The resulting sound pieces share a common lack of space and themes on their own, but all survive as testimonies of sounds etched in space and time. 

The work was on exhibition at FREE SPACE in Guangzhou in December, 2022. It also took part in a special auction organized by 2522 Unlabelled Art as the sole successful bid under the video/audio category.

Gust of Wind

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