NOVARS and MANTIS composer Kaho Cheung has completed his residency at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in USA.As part of the residency, Kaho had a presentation on his electro-acoustic works and many opportunities to exchange ideas with artists from various other art disciplines, including media arts, literature, choreography and visual arts. He also had a recording session with poet/scientist Robert Pesich and composed an electro-acoustic work featuring the acoustics of the architectural installation Estaciones de Luz (Stations of Light).
The Djerassi Program was founded in 1979 by Stanford University Professor Emeritus Dr. Carl Djerassi, who along with his colleagues at Syntex Corporation, became the first to synthesize a practical oral contraceptive in the early 1950s. In the 1960s proceeds from the rise of Syntex stock enabled Djerassi to purchase a large tract of land in the Santa Cruz Mountains west of Stanford, which he called SMIP (Syntex-Made-It-Possible) Ranch, but in 1970 renamed Sic manebimus in pace (Thus we'll remain in peace) . On this spectacular property with its breath-taking views of the Pacific Ocean and its quiet solitude, Djerassi built a home, as did his children, Pamela and Dale.
