Taratawan Krue-On

What If It Was All A Dream? (2021)

Audio-Visual

The minimalist-romantic conceptual approach to when the past and the present collide through sound and moving image, creating the haunting normality and phantasmagoric beauty of time and space. This piece represents a journey to seek the resonating existence of what was once there but no longer to be seen, to long for the bittersweet remembrance, and to be moved by the ambiguity between the current reality and dreams, which carry fragments of the past. Let us wander in the liminal space and question the reality, the life that we are living, us at this moment... and ponder, is it only a dream?

Dead Roses EP (2021)

Stereo works

1. Ode To Dead Roses

The first song out of three from the EP, Dead Roses. Ode To Dead Roses is a very self-conscious and reflective song. It presents the naive side of the composer through a very straightforward self written poem. This piece slowly transforms and dissolves into ambient sound from a street in South London mixed withvthe sound recorded from Bangkok’s subway station. This and the way words are slowly blurred into intangible sounds also implies how one’s sense of self’s identity and existence is gradually influenced by the foreign sounding and dissolved into something else through time and unfamiliar surroundings.

2. Hidden(Flesh)

Hidden(Flesh) is an Electro/Acoustic piece and a second piece from the Dead Roses EP. This piece works as a transition yet does not lack the meaning and the message hidden in itself. It explores the idea of a person’s ability to adapt into society through haunting voices and sounds. In the lyrics it mentioned a person who believes to feel safe by hiding the true self under the ‘sugar coated skin’ which represents those actions that seem to be accepted in foreign culture and norms.The Thai/exotic traditional techniques are used in the making of this song accompanied by hints of Thai traditional music instruments. Both voices [the lead and the background] are mildly off key to phantasmagorically give out hints of the conflicts within self and the feelings of hiding behind the made up and well decorated mask while also representing the way one true self seeks to exist.