Through Noise (2023)
Through Noise is a mixed-media and performance evening length work commissioned and produced by Asian Arts Initiative. It is the first installment of a series that investigates the emerging concept of 'a body' not as a fixed entity, but as an event of sensorial collisions. Through Noise engages the movements of sounding and listening to consider the choreographies that (re/de)form identity, relationality, and meaning. It moves in and through questions around ancestral grief in the Vietnamese diaspora, the conditions of home in an expanding Asian-American consciousness, and their entanglements with queer desire, love, and possibility.
An evening-length solo commissioned and produced by Asian Arts Initiative in Philadelphia.

Through Noise 0.5 Sound-Study
Composition: Jason Vu
(made with Max/MSP and sampled sounds)
Through Noise 1.0 Main Score
Field Recordings and Vocals: Jason Vu
Sound Design & Composition: Jason Vu & Dylan Gilbert
Mixing & Mastering: Dylan Gilbert



Photos by Jorgie Ingram