Author: Eric Chang

Designing Future Reality (Part 1)

Before reading this blog post, read these two articles first. Age of Entanglement by Neri Oxman (Professor, MIT Media Lab – Mediated Matter Research Group) Design and Science – Can design advance science, and can science advance design? by Joichi Ito (Director, MIT Media Lab) I would summarize these two articles, but I couldn’t find any better way to word their ideas than…

The Infinite Hotel

January 5 & 12 at 5PM and 9PM | January 7-11 at 7:30PM | Post-show conversation on Jan 11 at Irondale “Rock music and Rube-Goldberg- cinematography collide in a cathartic and inventive music-theatre experience. The Infinite Hotel invites live audiences to become ‘extras’ and step inside an elaborate movie-making machine, producing a one-take feature film…

Decoding Noise

What sounds go into silence? Have you ever noticed that there’s never actually moments of actual “silence” when you’re watching a film/tv show? (In fact, when Star Wars The Last Jedi actually decided to include a silent scene that lasted 10 seconds, movie theaters had to put up warning signs since too many people complained…

Augmented Audio

Something I’m really excited about the VR and AR mediums is the development of spatialized audio. I love sound designing, especially for animated films, because it’s about world building. In a film, it’s not the visuals that tell you what you’re supposed to feel at any moment, but the soundscape — the music, the foley…

Notch Experiments

A followup blog from my last post on Notch. Last week I wrote about picking up a new software, called Notch, this week I’m going to post some of the work in progress / BTS of the visuals I made for the Sheck Wes x Spotify concert at the Harlem Parish on Monday. (Sadly, it…