หยื้อ (yue) | cham-cam is part of Nguyễn + Transitory’s long-term research into different traditional forms of sound and movement in Thailand and Vietnam, in which they have been working together with mainly practitioners of different forms of traditional dance and movement who have been interested in reaching out towards amalgamating their practices with other traditional forms as well as with the duo’s practice. Tradition is in some cases and in some places still feels like a non-static living form drifting along to the rhythms of non-linearity.
For each of the presentations in Chiang Mai, Khon Kaen and Hue, the duo have invited five local performers to join them in a performance that navigates between interdependency, vulnerability, closeness, disorientation and trust. These themes will be explored as forms of collective resistance.
The piece is built around a site-specific, structure-sensitive, touch-based sonic architectural interface made especially for multiple performers. These performers collectively transform sounds through touch, attempting to fuse the body with the instrument being played. The body not only touches the instrument, but becomes a conductor as well, generating a composition live and in real time and conducting the fluctuating electrical currents that are transmitted into a modular synthesizer.
This dynamic destabilizes classical relationships, roles and hierarchies often present among director-composer-performer constellations and creates a situation that allows the complexities of collective agency to unfold. In this piece, touch becomes an essential tool of communication, a carrier and receiver of sound, and a tool through which agencies are renegotiated and the collective is sustained.
หยื้อ | yue in Chiang Mai, Thailand – https://youtu.be/f8wSsLPDlhI
หยื้อ | yue in Khon Kaen, Thailand – https://youtu.be/zga9jYv9UPo
cham-cam in Hue, Vietnam – https://youtu.be/C-pYVyuU7WI