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ChatGameLan

2025 |  Networked Laptop Ensemble

Recorded on November 14th, 2025 in Digital Media Center, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.

ChatGameLan is a networked laptop ensemble work composed for the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana and performed as part of the Virtual Gamelan concert in Digital Media Center Theatre, Louisiana State University on November 14, 2025. The performance takes place entirely within a Zoom meeting, where a chat window made in MaxMSP functions as a shared musical instrument. Performers generate rhythm, texture, and form through typed messages, glitches, delays, and collective pacing, transforming everyday digital communication into a live ensemble practice.

Welcome to this Zoom meeting – where the chat becomes a digital gamelan. Yet, behind every keystroke, a faint rhythm of collectivity still persists – glitchy, fragile, but human. Cameras off. Connection unstable. Ensemble intact. Welcome to a place that everybody can overshare, confess, and spam without consequences.

SORRY I CAN’T UNDERSTAND

2024 | Live Electronics

Music coded in SuperCollider, using only 140 characters.
Recorded in Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana concert on 6th November, 2024

play{LocalOut.ar(a=Pulse.ar(LFNoise0.kr(1).range(0,999))*SinOsc.ar(999));b=Formlet.ar(LocalIn.ar,a%0.8/1.5);PitchShift.ar(b+a,0.08,a,a+b)!2}

AETHER

2024 | Audiovisual Performance

XR Studio, Digital Media Center, LSU, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Concept, Direction, and Live Electronic Performance: Fiona Xue Ju

UE Interactive Visuals and Audio Visualization: Shae Duyen Hoang Photography Director, Cinematography, and Film Editing: Alex Matus
Scene Setup and Production Assistance: Alaina Michellli