He said the warm feedback was like "a giant digital hug". "It just tells you how nice people are, and how much they want to help you," he said.
Last fall, The Creators Project interviewed musician, GayBird (ne Leung Kei-chuek) on his live performance, Digital Hug.
Recently, GayBird was awarded Best Electronic Music Artist at the Chinese Music Media Awards for an album he recorded during his wildly innovative "Digital Hug" concerts.
In the interview he spoke about his upcoming concert "Digital Hug," which is less a concert and more a "new media music experiment".
Now, GayBird is preparing a new media concert in Hong Kong, and he spoke with The Creators Project about his experiments, creative process and extensive preparation for the "Digital Hug".
CouCou On Mars and Digital Hug both sound like an amalgam of Stereolab, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Cornelius, if those musicians utilized custom keyboads modulated by iPhones, water as a drum machine, and iPad facemasks that emit sounds and samples when touched. .
For the "Digital Hug" performances, GayBird draws upon just about every resource and experimental technique afforded to a contemporary electronic music composer he has custom-made instruments that he himself designed, an interactive audiovisual installation, video mapping, custom-made iPad apps that are used to program the music and, ever electronic concert's pièce de résistance, a dancing robot.
GayBird debuted the multimedia sensory spectacle a little over a year ago, telling us about his ambitions of taking the show on the road, which he's finally getting to do with his first international performance at FILE Festival in Brazil on July 17 and 18. Check out a clip of "Digital Hug" above to get just a small taste of what this performance is all about.
It isn't a Chest-Hugging Digital Activity Band designed to quantify your self, with sensors to monitor your Heart Rate, Sweat Level, Air Cleanliness Level, Blood Alcohol Level, and Average Flatulence while navigating through your day.
At present, Hussein is working as a Chief Operating Officer of Hug Digital, as a Digital Strategy and Social Media Marketing Lecturer at DM3 Institute, and as a Mentor at Turn8, Arabreneur, and Flat6Labs.
