"Venere (edit)" is an excerpt from the audiovisual work "Once upon_the iCloud 2D S/C ide", which premiered in Hong Kong on August 22, 2024. The project explores the theme of Slow Life.

While walking through Hong Kong, I noticed a unique feature in the sound of the traffic lights: when the pedestrian signal was red, the light emitted a slow beep, and when it turned green, the beeping nearly doubled in speed. This alternating rhythm between waiting and quickly crossing the street was captured through sound. What sonority could better represent a project about Slow Life?

I sampled the sound, where each pattern was made up of a sequence of slow beeps followed by a faster one. I then created a panning effect, alternating the beeps from left to right—one beep on the left, the next on the right, and so on. I layered these sounds, with a second layer coming in halfway through the first, and a third halfway through the second, and so forth. This resulted in the fast beeps from the second half of the first pattern in the first layer overlapping with the slow beeps from the first part of the pattern entering in the second layer, which were exactly twice the note value.

The outcome was a rhythmic and spatial counterpoint, where the beeps seemed to respond to each other from opposite points in space, their rhythms intertwining and imitating one another, yet never quite meeting.

On top of this soundscape, I added "Venere", an electronic track I composed in 2022, set to the same bpm.

This interplay of rhythm and panning was perfectly reflected in the video created by visual artists Koki Sakakihara and Hina Ebihara.