Procedural Noise — Jay Swuen

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“Procedural Noise” is an experimental practice of Jay Swuen, a branch that runs alongside his principal work and answers to no brief. It pairs custom optics with light fixtures driven by scripts and algorithms built in TouchDesigner, treating it as a way of asking what lighting can be. The work takes form as performance, installation, and immersive environments.

Dance of the Nine Colored Deer @ LACMA

Performance by Andrew Thomas Huang, Kyoko Takenaka
Lighting Design by Jay Swuen, Music by OHYUNG, Costumes by Lindsey Mortensen-Hirway

結像
In audiophile usage, imaging means a speaker's ability to render voices and instruments a sprecisely placed, solid, tangible objects in space. The Chinese term is borrowed from optics, where 結像 means the forming of an image: scattered light condensing into a defined figure.

To image, is to solidify and crystallize a phantom, an existence with no physical source, into something with placement, focus, body, and coherence.