{"id":350,"date":"2021-08-13T01:49:37","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/?page_id=350"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:52:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:52:20","slug":"symphony-of-intimacies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/index.php\/symphony-of-intimacies\/","title":{"rendered":"Symphony of Intimacies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00979-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00979-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00979-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00979-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00979-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00979-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DSC00979-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Symphony of Intimacies, 2022, Radialsystem, Photo: Asarela Orchidia Dewi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Symphony of Intimacies<\/em> is part of a perpetual work-in-progress which started in early 2018 with the piece <em>Bird Bird, Touch Touch, Sing Sing<\/em>. For their presentation at Radialsystem in April, the duo have invited five non-professional 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The piece is built around a site-specific, structure-sensitive, touch-based sonic architectural interface made especially for multiple performers by Nguy\u1ec5n + Transitory.<br>The 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This dynamic diffuses 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Symphony Of Intimacies: Film von Nguy\u1ec5n + Transitory\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y68V3gs3TmY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Symphony of Intimacies \u2013 Video Documentation of the Process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symphony of Intimacies is part of a perpetual work-in-progress which started in early 2018 with the piece Bird Bird, Touch Touch, Sing Sing. For their presentation at Radialsystem in April, the duo have invited five non-professional performers to join them in a performance that navigates between interdependency, vulnerability, closeness, disorientation and trust. These themes will &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/index.php\/symphony-of-intimacies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Symphony of Intimacies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-350","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/350\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nguyentransitory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}