War Fan

An instrument, a weapon, and a stering wheel transformed from a body scale folding fan. The opening, folding, turning, and flipping of the fan makes both acoustic and synthesized marching music which tells a story of a war towards the rise and death of a utopia.

30 days making process on Instagram. See more on my instagram page for nime @effyfanworks

Programming, Music Composition, Fabrication
Effy Yue Fan

Sound Engineering

Aaron Moreno

Special Thanks

Aaron Parsekian, helped me hack the turntable

Kellie Dziedzic, came up with the name ‘War Fan’

Huiyi Chen, we are Kite and Wind 风筝与风

Tom Igoe, helped me with ideation, as always

Ciao Lin, helped me composing music

MH. Rahmani, told me to use the tripod head

Roland Arnoldt, held soldering party with me

Tiriree kananuruk, taught me how to do better performance

Ziming Guo, for your unconditional support

NIME residents: Wenqi Li/Hayley Hwang/Ari Melenciano, nothing can happen without you

my buddy: Jessis Simpson, best of the best

my J area neighbors: Yifan Liu, Yiyao Nie, Chengchao Zhu, Anthony Bui, I am so proud of your works

everyone in NIME 2018, we share these memories together

Ending Note

NIME was once in a life time experience. Thank you ITP 2019. Thank you NIME community. I had zero sleep, felt so desperate, got a high voltage shock, but had a huge blast that made everything worth it.