Cyborg Études combines music and live electronics, visual design and text created with Gillian Tan and Elayce Ismail. Split into five continuous movements, the cycle explores the tension between virtuosity and vulnerability and what it means to collapse their sharp edges together. It draws inspiration from W. E. B. Du Bois' articulation of 'double consciousness', the toil of racialised experience through the reappropriation of the Chinese folksong Mo Li Hua '茉莉花', and the struggle to find new beginnings.

Cyborg Études

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1. Toil, progress, repeat

2. What is this veiled, beating heart inside me?

3. Growing, shimmering, blossoming, even blooming

4. But the cogs are in place, turning, churning

5. What is this serene place?

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​Alex Ho  composer​

Elayce Ismail text and dramaturgy

Gillian Tan visual design

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