• About HOBATION

        “HOBATION” means the land near river from “Hakka” language.
        I was born in Taiwan, and then came to USA to study Motion Media Design in SCAD. I was a DJ in Taiwan, so my motion works always reflect an idea that there is always a significant relationship exists between music and images delivering messages to audiences. Therefore, I developed this idea as my MFA thesis about “synaesthisia” and “visual music.” Finally, I finished my thesis “Synaesthetic Effects Can Produce an Immersive Visual Music.”

    Artist Statement

        Since late 1990s, I was influenced by electronic music, and then I became a DJ playing music in outdoors events. Later, I realized there seemed to be some relation between sound and vision when I played music with a VJ playing video. Occasionally, I began to create videos and synchronized them with music. As a VJ, I figure out that the movements, colors and speed of video can be used synchronize with tempo, pitch and loudness of music, and when these connections are established, the videos are transferred to music and music is transferred to vision. The audiences look immersed in this kind of atmosphere. In this world, although the abilities of hearing and vision are quiet different, a relationship seems existing. I tried to confirm this unexplained relationship and then I learnt about visual music. From the history, many ancient pioneers had already examined the possibilities how to define this relationship, but they could not transfer one color light to one specific sound or pitch by scientific ways. In addition, those pioneers used their own way to develop many unique methods to explain the relation including synaesthetic effects.
        Synaesthetic effects is the principle I create my motion works. Briefly, synchronization is the key. Every dance/electronic music track has specific a BPM(Beat Per Minute), so is the video.
        I do beatmatching video and audio together. I, HOBATION, a DVJ.

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