Leslie Ting’s What Brings You In is a confessional concert with interactive sound installation. Based on interview research and personal experiences with talk therapy, hypnotherapy, dreamwork, sandplay, somatics, and reiki, What Brings You In is an exploration, through a series of new music compositions, of when and where our truest selves emerge. What Brings You In invites audiences inward to discover more about themselves through listening, while asking “what brings you in?” to gather for a live performance in a communal space. What might we find together? Featuring Leslie Ting on violin and Germaine Liu on percussion, with additional electronics and sound design by Matt Smith.
What Brings You In can be performed simultaneously to in-person and online audiences via a web app hosted by EMMA COOP, with the option of offering attendees the opportunity to play the sandtable custom-made for What Brings You In in a standalone interactive surround sound installation pre or post performance.
With performances described as “fire without smoke” (Strad) and “breathtaking” (Onstage), violinist and interdisciplinary artist Leslie Ting has been creating groundbreaking music-driven multimedia performances since 2014 with her definitive work, Speculation. Garnering multiple award nominations, Leslie’s work combines her specialized background as a classical musician with creative work in theatre, new media, and experience stemming from her former career as a practicing optometrist.
The Leslie Ting Productions core team currently consists of Artistic Director and Executive Producer Leslie Ting, and Producer Laura Philipps. Ting and Philipps are dedicated to pushing boundaries across artistic disciplines and genres, both deeply engaged with creative accessibility and invested in bringing together communities and audiences in new ways of understanding themselves and the world around them.
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Support Material
Video trailer, SummerWorks Lab, 2022
This reel is from a development showing at Summerworks in 2022. It shows highlights from our first experiment in a “hybrid” performance with audience simultaneously in-venue and online with the online interface projected in the venue as part of the environmental design. The final performance will have live musicians (violin, percussion, sandtable), and attendees in the venue will not need silent disco headphones or their device, as there will be a 7.1 surround sound system. The online interface will also show an evolution in the cursor and greater colour contrast for increased visual accessibility.
Top photo by Melissa Sung; bottom photo by Henry Chan.