HAVE ROBOT DOG, WILL TRAVEL
A song cycle for the technological age. An ode to abstraction, to ambiguity, to words unsaid.
composer, performer, release, solo, voice
Have Robot Dog, Will Travel – A song cycle for the technological age
Category: solo
performer, solo, taiko, voice
Mixtape – for voice, autoharp, taiko, Nebulophone, Bleep Drum, Korg Monotron and looper
A Mixtape is a performance for voice, autoharp, taiko, Nebulophone and Bleep Drum (Arduino-based synths), Korg Monotron, and looper. Taking the form of a mixtape as its inspiration, this performance is a live mashup of intimate songs with dirty, gritty electronics, physicality and athleticism. Moving fluidly or jarringly, it is an unrelenting performance for the…
performer, solo, voice
Rochester – A cabaret/lounge Baroque music performance (2011)
Rochester is a cabaret/lounge Baroque music performance which sets to music the epic, obscene poetry of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, in a contemporary, experimental and absurdist mishmash of traditional Baroque music and contemporary pop music, on a backdrop of burlesque bal masque.
composer, performer, solo, voice
Implied Manifesto #1 – A wordless manifesto (2011)
Implied Manifesto #1 is a music performance by Stephanie Pan which incorporates abstracted pop songs, live improvisation and inarticulateness. Made for voice, wineglasses, Suzuki Omnichord, Nebulophone and live sampler, the performance bears semblance to a personal manifesto, but has almost no comprehensible words. Rather, it relies on the visceral presence of the performer, abstract sound,…
maker, performer, solo, taiko, voice
You Are Here: a multi-media performance in three parts for performer, 10m dress, homemade taiko and chocolate cake (2010)
A carefully constructed miniature of the world; a piece where the performer as maker as performer controls all elements of the performance itself. You Are Here: is reality as a construction of the mind. More than theatrical acts, it is states of being, where nothing ‘happens’, but everything exists. It is alternatingly intimate and warm,…
solo, taiko
Little Drummer Girl, or, My First Taiko (2010)
This is a pet project that has been keeping me busy lately. I have long been fascinated by taikos, and after a very fortunate encounter with Uzume, a mixed-genre taiko collective/ensemble and discovering I could build my own taiko, I became set on finally learning how to play, but not before I built my own…
collaborative, solo, voice
Pills To Purge Melancholy
Pills To Purge Melancholy – a twisted-folk experiment in accessibility. Pure songs, sad songs, mad songs, weird songs; treatises in subtlety designed to thwart and relieve bouts of melancholy and loneliness, expressed through a unique instrumentation: toy zither, mini Casio, the gifted voice of Stephanie Pan, joined by old friends and colleagues, musical masterminds, Sasha…
solo, voice
Solitary Hotel (2007)
Silent film created for live synching with the piece “Solitary Hotel” by Samuel Barber, for voice and piano. Concept and Direction: Stephanie Pan Duration: 3’16”
performer, solo, voice
Our Lady of Late – for voice and wineglass
Our Lady of Late is a study on the use of the voice as a pure and primitive expressive instrument, stripped of the layers and conventions established by culture and society that mask our attempts to communicate. The performance incorporates both improvisations inspired by and excerpts from the 16-movement piece by Meredith Monk of the…