Hi, nice to meet you!

Thank you for being here! I am Jane(Xinjian) Huang, an audio-visual artist. I make videos, music, and photos. I have many experiences collaborating with dancers as a music composer and video archivist. My works have been selected for Signal Flow Festival, NSEME 2020, MAGWest 2019, etc. Please listen to my music and scroll down for more visual works.

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My role: video/audio editing and post-production, music technology

Yu is a dance-music interactive performance in collaboration with a Chinese dancer Rui Yao, who is specialized in water sleeves. The data stream of the dancer's movement, analyzed by the wearable sensor attached to her clothes, is sent to the composer's Max/MSP patch wirelessly and generates all the music in real-time.

In Chinese opera, water sleeves refer to white silk extensions to the cuff of garment sleeves. They are so named because performers can use them to produce movements like the ripples of water. The piece was made to explore more possibilities of the modern expression in traditional Chinese art.

My role: background VFX, music

TAT is a creative dance perfomance. With the dancer secretly appearing on/off the stage and the background video trying to fake the dancer, The piece aims to trick the audiences by the visual illusion that both the real dancer and the “fake dancer” create together.

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Popping on Marshmallow is a sound installation which allows the audience to interact with the responding graphics that I created in Processing. Each of the balls has their unique moving speed and a sound list, which is a list of sound clips in the same timbre but different pitch. The sound is triggered randomly by the contact of the audience’s hands of his/her body gesture through Kinect. The big blue ball has a slow mellow pad sound, the yellow one has a fruity sound at the middle speed, and the pink ball has the quickest and sharpest sound. The smallist blue ball which always moves horizontally serves as a bonus that is more challenging to touch.

I made this work because of my enthusiasm for music education for children and music lovers. I always think that music is for everyone, not just professional performers or composers. This project's gamification performance design enables people to perform music with body movements easily, which also helps children improve hand-eye coordination and the sense of music.

3D animation

2D animation