I am fascinated by the way that the body movements of karate kata, when broken down to their simplest elements: speed, strength, and balance, are a universal language able to be interpreted without being filtered, unaffected by language and cultural differences. In this same way, I am also interested in the ways music transcends boundaries between countries, cultures, genders, and ages, and how it has always played an important role in our daily lives. Humans are easily affected by the power of music, either emotionally or physically. As a creator, music is constantly involved in my process and it influences the results. As a human being, music is an essential spiritual nutrition.

As a designer interested in working with moving forms, I want to explore the relationship between music and making by examining the intersections of music, performance, kata, and visual languages, while I push the boundary between performance art, visual imagery and music. My objective is not only to explore the relationship between different media, but to change the way an audience perceives a single element by uniting different subjects. I enhance the impact of each media by providing different sensations. Combining seemly-unrelated fields to create a new meaning is not impossible but instead, powerful. Through creating embu, it allows me to integrate all my interests, visual design, karate, and music. These elements physically work together in harmony to create fresh meaning in this new system. Through the exploration of the relationship between the karate movements, visual images, and music via multimedia, the outcome of my project articulates the karate spirit.

My thesis project takes the form of performance that accompanies music with projected motion graphics or animation. My work intends to push the boundaries between visual art, karate and music embodying the karate spirit and creating new meanings through multimedia.