5.1 Decimal Points by Rizman Putra

5.1 refers to the six channel surround sound multichannel audio system – the most commonly used layout in both commercial cinemas and home theatres. It is also about the search for self within a population that is reaching 5.1 million.

5.1 is a wordless movement-based performance, incorporating radio frequency motion sensors, neo-futuristic costumes and unconventional live vocal experimentation, colliding techno toys with raw physical emotion into the same frequency. It is a search for that balance between the soul and the cold, the dense and the sparse, the new and the old, the foreign and the native, the logical and the illogical.

When the bodies start to regurgitate, they will begin to reveal the truth. There are no prisoners here, only kindred souls in search of a meaning. We are all machines and we are forever broken.

Conceived & Directed by Rizman Putra
Sound Artist: Zulkifle Mahmod
Lighting Designer: Andy Lim
Production Designer: Nizam Supardi / Neon Tights
Performers: Fared Jainal, Sharda Harrison, Syaiful Ariffin, Patricia Toh, Yazid Jalil
About Decimal Points

Presented by Cake Theatrical Productions in partnership with The Substation, Decimal Points is a series of art experiments that fuel artistic creation through process and exploration. Over the course of two years, four artistic experiments are made, each helmed by a different artist – Brian Gothong Tan, David Lee, Philip Tan and Rizman Putra. Each artist is encouraged to create from a personal place, finding entry points via the varying disciplines of film, fashion, visual art, sound and performance art. In the third year, all four artists bring forth a new work inspired and enriched by a two-year span of research, exploration and creation.

courtesy by Cake Theatrical Production

courtesy by Cake Theatrical Production

courtesy by Cake Theatrical Production