BECOMING HUMAN -creation 2025
FORMAT: New circus/live music
Cast: Oskar Mauricio, Katherina Lebedew, Gonzalo Becerra, Lih Qun Wong
THE PASSAGE 4.7
FORMAT: contemporary dance
Artistic Director/Choreographer: Joy Alpuerto Ritter
Music Composer/text: Lih Qun Wong
Visual Artist: Lucian Patermann
Choreographic collaborators and Dancers:
Alba de Miguel Fuertes, Black Pearl de Almeida Lima, Liam Wustrack,
Abdullar Hatem, Kalli Tarasidou, Charmene Pang, Hector Ferrer
Producer: Christine Maupetit
Production Manager: Julia Leonhardt
Videographer: Martin Mostert
Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Minister of State for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance.
Thanks to Theaterhaus Berlin Schöneweide and BattleROYAL studio Berlin
iRiS
FORMAT : contemporary dance
The iris of the eye has a unique color. It is our window that shapes our perception of the world around us. However, these days we are increasingly focused on looking at screens. And everything we consume online every day determines our social behavior and identity.
Is it possible to find a healthy balance between the hours we spend in front of the screen and a self-awareness that allows growth in human interactions?
iRiS a piece created with and from Dart DSP postgraduate student dancers!
Original music by Lih Qun Wong
Idea, direction & choreography by Joy Alpuerto Ritter
Creative assistant
Rehearsal directors @capucine_ngr and @kinga__varga
directed by Kinga Varga
UNDA
Composer and performer for the newly commissioned piece “UNDA” choreographed by Joy Alpuerto Ritter for the Viviana Durante company as part of the triple bill evening “Isadora Now” and Dance Inversion Moscow (2021) at the Stanislavsky Theatre
A remarkable evening of performance paying tribute to the American dancer Isadora Duncan, a timeless feminist icon who made work that enabled women to express themselves physically on their own terms. Presented at the Barbican Theatre, London 21 February- 29 February 2020
Credits: Composer, live musician
“Loss” Opera excerpt
“Loss” Klavier soundscape
Final drums and orchestral section
VACIO
for Cia Omkara
Credits: Composer, music producer, story teller, live musician
Dummylab
for BaseBerlin
Credits: Co-composer, live musician
SOUND INSTALLATIONS AND RESEARCH 2025
Resonant currents
Resonant Currents is a deep listening audio-visual experience that transforms migration and environmental data into a sensory journey, immersing audiences in a living, evolving landscape.
This work invites audiences to experience the movement of people, cities, and the planet—not as static information, but as a living, organism. It explores howthe transformation of data into a fluid medium such as sound can help us connect to the interconnected systems that shape our existence, and understand our impact and place in it.
Investigating fluidity, interconnectedness, and expanded perception- it challenges rigid notions of space, time, and self. Helping us connect with the unknown and recognise the intelligence inherent in natural systems Exploring consciousness as knowledge beyond language, the piece seeks to create alternate landscapes and language as a way of deepening our understanding of the worlds that we are part of.
Resonant Currents explores how technology driven sound processes can be mixed with electroacoustic sound to create new narratives and connections to our collective and singular consciousness. Through data sonification, large-scale migration and environmental datasets are transformed into sonic landscape. Spatial sound design (and composition) transforms listening into a fully embodied experience. Where sound moves, not just around, but through the listener. Dissolving the boundary between perception and environment.
By creating sonic environments where time and space blur, identity, community, and environment intertwine. It explores howdata can help us connect beyond definable contexts to understanding the vast, interconnected systems that shape our existence.
Inspired by the cohesive complexity of natural migratory patterns (human, animal and environmental), we explore how movement is central to our planet’s ecosystem- to life. Adaptability is evolution.
Format: deep listening installation/ spatial sound and AV collaboration
New media collaboration with Dereal Studios
Sound Design
Data will be mapped onto sound parameters such as frequency, amplitude, panning, and modulation. The dynamic soundscape is generative, reflective of organic networks.
Spatial & Immersive Audio
Spatial sound transforms listening into a fully embodied experience, where sound moves not just around but through the listener, dissolving the boundary between perception and environment. By sculpting frequencies in space, the work creates shifting auditory dimensions, guiding the audience into deeper states of altered perception—where vibration is not only heard but physically felt, immersing them in a fluid, ever-evolving sonic architecture. I’m interested in the potential of using spatial audio earlier during the compositional process as well as in post-production.
Other compositional elements – connecting the ancient with technology
Storytelling, sound healing and technology ( frequency music), art as a collective experience
Why is the work important ?
This project emerges from an interest in the intersection of sound, human experience, and technology. In an era where we are overwhelmed with data, there is a need for new ways of knowing beyond numbers, beyond logic and language. Art that reshapes how we experience and respond to critical issues like climate change is not merely a reflection of reality but a radical act of reimagining it. Music can create a space for collective resonance—where urgency meets reflection, healing and connection. Where listeners are invited to feel, rather than just understand, their place within the shifting patterns of our time.
The landscape of live music is changing. Audiences are increasingly drawn to immersive, multi-sensory experiences—where music is not just heard, but felt, seen, and interacted with. This shift is evident in the rise of sound technology collaborations (spatial sound, AI-driven composition, live generative music), art-music hybrid performances (new media, cross-disciplinary experimentation) and environmental and site-specific sound projects that create new contexts for musical experience.
DRAGONFLY
Dragonfly is a 30-minute sound installation and live performance piece, developed during a work stay in Ulaanbaatar (September–October 2025) in collaboration with MCASA and the Goethe-Institut Mongolia. Inspired by Mongolian poet Ulziitugs Luvsandorj’s poem Dragonfly, the project explores identity, migration, longing and consciousness through electronic music, field recordings, and live instrumental performance.
In a world marked by rapid change, displacement, and uncertainty, Dragonfly speaks to a fundamental human need—the search for connection, identity, and meaning beyond physical borders. At a time when digital spaces dominate cultural exchange, deep listening and sonic art offer an alternative way to experience presence, reflection, and shared resonance. Transmediale listening sessions and experimental sound practices are reshaping how audiences engage with music, dissolving traditional structures and creating new pathways for immersive, collective experiences. It provides a safe space for inquiry, inviting audiences to engage with themes of migration, belonging, and consciousness in a way that is both intimate and expansive.
At the heart of Dragonfly is an exploration of identity, migration, and longing, woven through sound, poetry, and deep listening. Inspired by Ulziitugs Luvsandorj’s poem, the work reflects on the dragonfly as a metaphor for an unawakened consciousness—a voice hovering between worlds, searching for something just beyond reach. The piece blurs the boundaries of inner and outer landscapes, mirroring the experience of diaspora and displacement, where home is not simply a physical place but a spiritual state of connection.
This project embraces art as an existential creative necessity: experimental and deeply rooted in the notion that sound and music are not just forms of entertainment but powerful, transformative forces. By expanding access to new formats of musical experience, Dragonfly contributes to the evolving landscape of contemporary sound art—provocative, reflective, and vital for reimagining how we listen, connect, and understand one another in uncertain times.
The sound installation will evoke the tension between movement and stillness, presence and absence – inviting listeners to engage in a meditative act of listening—to drift between worlds, to feel the echoes of distant places, and to recognise that what we search for is not always a place on a map, but a resonance within ourselves.
