PROJECTS
soundinitiative
soundinitiative comprises nine musicians from France, Australia, China, Italy, Poland and Taiwan who have each forged their own careers, both in France and abroad, as soloists and chamber musicians. Their mix of backgrounds affords the group a rich collective musical insight encompassing myriad cultures, musical languages and interdisciplinary experiences.
Winnie Huang is a co-artistic director and violinist of the ensemble.
Winnie Huang & Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn
Interested in realising long-term research projects on instrumental design, interdisciplinary gestural interaction, and acoustic/technological feedback. From traditional instrumentation of trombones and violin/viola to invented instruments, we hope to bridge technological innovation with human gestural interactivity.
Sonic Silhouettes, Musical Movement
Winnie Huang’s doctoral research project investigated the role of the musical-gestural performer. Exploring works of the last sixty years, with different degrees of compositional collaboration, from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Winnie will work with composers such as Jessie Marino, Charlie Sdraulig, Sivan Cohen Elias and the Stockhausen Foundation among many others, clarifying ideas of embodiment, presentness and examining the roles of performer/composer/creator.
LOOKOUT
LookOut is a new musical performance duo featuring composer-performers Jessie Marino and Winnie Huang. As an international duo creating and performing existing and original new works, LookOut explores physical bodily movement alongside sound, light, and theatrical drama and humour for an embodied transdisciplinary performance experience. LookOut’s work together also encompasses educational projects such as a composer/performer workshops and research into multidisciplinary artistic forms of collaboration.