Sound Design for theater

Dance of Yuan
Physical Theater, 35 min, 2024, NYU Abu Dhabi Black Box Theater | Co-Director, Dancer, Opening Soundscape Design

Inspired by Zen meditation practice, Butoh and contact improvisation, this physical theater piece explores the Chinese concept of

Yuán 圆 - circle
缘 - fate
源 - origin

Before the show began, audience were led to meditate together in darkness while this soundscape was played.
Recorded and Mixed by me.

Photos by Jam Moreno

Ikwe Na Odu - Art, Activism and Food symposium
4-day Symposium, Performance Installation, 6 h, 2023, NYU Abu Dhabi | Production Assistant, Space Soundscape Design

Played throughout the symposium before and after each event, the piece complemented the performance with a distinct sonic experience created by the rumble of pestles and mortars.
Recorded, Designed, and Mixed by me.

About the Show
Ikwe na odu [Igbo for “mortar and pestle”] is a six-hour performance installation conceived and directed by Chinasa Vivian Ezugha that invites audiences to consider the labor of food production. Presented as a part of Art, Activism, and Food symposium—a series of performative provocations that tackle the use of food as a weapon of warfare—the work engages with food politics in relation to the impact on the environment, economics, and identity, in support of COP28.

Photos by Waleed Shah