Monica Lim on her piece Electromagnetic room
Watch my interview with contemporary art music composer Monica Lim on her piece Electromagnetic room. It is a participatory music piece, where audience is invited to manipulate and change the acoustic sounds made by a performer on the the electromagnetic piano via 3 interactive screens which tracked hand movement with AI pose-estimation technology.The overall sound became a product of the collective and the space.
Monica is a sound artist whose work spans installations, performance art, contemporary dance and screen. She is interested in new cross-disciplinary genres and forms as well as combinations of new technology with music. Her work has been presented at Arts House, Science Gallery Melbourne, AsiaTOPA, White Night, Liquid Architecture, Melbourne Fringe, Arts Centre Melbourne, Sydney Dance Company and WorldPride as well as international symposiums such as ISEA and NIME. Monica is currently undertaking her PhD at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne in movement-led composition and new technologies. She is part of the research team at VCA Dance's TrakLAB and the University of Melbourne's Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Ethics. Monica is a 2023 Artist-in residence at the Grainger Museum and Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio and is co-creator of the Electromagnetic Piano with Mirza Ceyzar and David Shea.