Saturday, March 30, 2013

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.KS: AS / CHRISTIAAN VIRANT / JAMES FEI

 
RE-RECORDS, LONA RECORDS & CIA PRESENTS
NOISE to SIGNAL 0.KS: AS / CHRISTIAAN VIRANT / JAMES FEI
 
A special edition of NOISE to SIGNAL, featuring Christiaan Virant (from FM3) and US based Taiwanese artist James Fei, and our Hong Kong originals, Alok + Sin:Ned.  
 
13 APR, 2013 (SAT)
OPEN: 8:00 PM
START: 8:30 PM
 
PERFORMERS
Alok + Sin:Ned
Christiaan Virant (from FM3)
James Fei
Admission: HK$100 (Advance) / HK$130 (At door)

CIA (Culture Industries Association)
Unit 7, 8/F, Block B, Wah Tat Industrial Centre, 8-10 Wah Sing Street, Kwai Hing, Kowloon, Hong Kong
 
華達工業大厦B座八樓七室, 八至十號華星街, 葵興

 
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
 
Alok
Alok, a sound artist, musician and DJ. Since he first emerged in 1994 with his first band, Pillow, Alok has proved to be a unique and driving force in shaping the alternative sounds of this city. The songwriter and guitarist first rose to prominence in 1997 after he disbanded (noisenik and shoegazing) Pillow and formed Slow Tech Riddim . Here they formed electronic music with live streaming guitars. They produced two innovative albums in 2000 – 2001. In 2002, he set up his own record label Lona Records, and started working as a solo artist and a producer. He released more than 10 albums and singles from 2002 to 2011. He has played and participated in more than 150 shows and experimental events / projects in Hong Kong, Portugal, Macau and China. In addition, it will be involved in animation, short film and independent film music and music design in. 2008 he formed the new electronic band A Roller Control and now is the member of DJ crew “Are Friends Electric?”.

Christiaan Virant (from FM3)
Christiaan Virant(FM3老趙) is a Beijing-based musician and media artist. He is considered among the pioneers of electronic music in China, crafting a meditative ambience which combines Chinese classical instruments with modern digital techniques.

His band, FM3, has been called “the most prominent experimental act in China” by US magazine Grooves. The UK magazine The Wire calls Virant's live sets “meditative,” “soothing” and “engagingly intimate.”

Virant is best known for his design and production of the "Buddha Machine" loop-player. This small music box was named one of the best music releases of 2005 by the New York Times. In 2011, The Washington Post put the third-generation Buddha Machine at the top of its buying guide for music lovers. “It’s bliss,” the paper said.

In addition to the Buddha Machine, Virant creates music for film, television, multi-media art exhibits and has an extensive discography on various labels around the world.

James Fei
James Fei (b. Taipei, Taiwan) moved to the US in 1992 to study electrical engineering. He has since been active as a composer and performer on saxophones and live electronics. Works by Fei have been performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, MATA Micro Orchestra and Noord-Hollands Philharmonisch Orkest. Recordings can be found on Leo Records, Improvised Music from Japan, CRI, Krabbesholm and Organized Sound. Compositions for Fei's own ensemble of four alto saxophones focus on physical processes of saliva, fatigue, reeds crippled by cuts and the threshold of audible sound production, while his sound installations and performance on live electronics often focus on feedback. Since 2006 Fei has taught at Mills College in Oakland, where he is Associate Professor of Electronic Arts.

Sin:Ned
Sin:Ned, from Hong Kong, aka Wong Chung-fai. Improviser, experimentalist and noise practitioner. Advocator of sonic mysticism, who is in search of freedom against the system in chaos and errors. Co-founder of Re-Records (www.re-records.com) and advisor of soundpocket (www.soundpocket.org.hk). Founding member of No One Pulse, iii and After Doom. The power house of the live performance series NOISE to SIGNAL.

Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony Bi-Weekly), his writings had influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners in Hong Kong and China. As a sound improviser, he has offered performance and creative work for concert, sound installation, workshop, audio-visual and theatrical performance. He had taken part and performed in HK Sound and Vision Festival (2003), Get It Louder (2007), Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2007, 2009), Architecture is Art Festival (2009), Notch Festival 2009 Guangzhou Station (2009), Against 2012: Fukuoka Extreme Music Festival (2012), New Vision Arts Festival (2012), Miji Festival (2013)…etc, and collaborated with artists such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Otomo Yoshihide, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Alfred 23 Harth, Yan Jun, Torturing Nurse, dj sniff , and Dickson Dee…etc.

ABOUT RE-RECORDS & NOISE TO SIGNAL

Re-Records is a record label initiated by experimental / electro-acoustic duo No One Pulse from Hong Kong. With Re, we don’t solely aim to be an outlet for releasing self-initiated or other affiliated projects, but also for artists and releases we deem interesting.

Noise to Signal is a performance series for improvised noise and experimental music within the context of performing art. 

Artists who had performed in our concert series:

… (CH), iii (HK), 23N! (JP), After Doom (HK), ahshun aka bjornho (HK), Alexei Borisov (RU), Alfred 23 Harth (DE), Alok (HK), ASTMA (RU), Black Zenith (SG), Brian O’Reilly (SG), Caligine (IT), Circuitrip (SG), Claudio Rocchetti (IT), Composers Union of New Tunes (HK), Da Xiao (CN), Dickson Dee (HK), dj sniff (NL), DJ Urine (FR), Diode (HK), e:ch (MO), Everdark (HK), Fritz Welch (UK), Fumiko Ikeda (JP), Go Koyashiki (JP), Gregory Buttner (DE), Heroses (HK), High Wolf (FR), Joao Vasco Paiva (HK), Jun-Y CIAO (CN), Kazuhisa Uchihashi (JP), Klaus Janek (IT), KLC_NIR (CN), KWC (HK), Laurent Valdès (CH), Li YangYang (CN), Li Zenghui (CN), Lin Zhiying (CN), Margie Tong (HK), Mei ZhiYong (CN), Meta Fog (HK), Naturalismo (IT), Nerve (HK), No One Pulse (HK), Oetzi.P (HK), Olaf Hochherz (DE), Olga Nosova (RU), Patrick Donze (CH), Purple Pilgrims (NZ), Ricardo da Silva (CH), Richard Francis (NZ), Shelf-Index (HK), Sherman (HK), shotahirama (JP), Sin:Ned (HK), Syndrome WPW (CH), Taishi Kamiya (JP), Tetragrammaton (JP), The Invisible Frog and Time Machine aka Ronez (CN), Toshikazu Goto (JP), ::vtol:: (RU), Wilmer Ongsitco Chan (HK), Wilson Tsang (HK), Yan Jun (CN), Yang Xiu (CN), Yukitomo Hamasaki (JP), Zbigniew Karkowski (PL), ZenLu (CN)…

Please visit www.re-records.com or join our group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rerec

ABOUT LONA RECORDS

Set up in 2003, Lona Records is an independent label in Hong Kong preoccupied with producing Alternative / Experimental music.

ABOUT CIA (Cultural Industries Association)

Through our regular programs of concerts, art exhibitions, film screenings, seminars and workshops, it is our hope to bring to you not what have we seen already, but rather how we perceived these ideas, their contexts, and how these seemingly abstract concepts can affect and relate to our everyday lives. To prompt changes, renew our senses and debase our previously fixated point of views, this is the only way to a future – any future away from here. According to Plato, we live chained inside a dark cave; all we can see is the back wall and the shadows that move there. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. That what we in fact seeing are aspects of ourselves that fall over one another. Shadows. Projections. Our associations - of the culture industries.




Thursday, March 21, 2013

Opening Performance - Kago Shintaro Unsanitary HK Exhibition

 

Opening Performance
Kago Shintaro Unsanitary Hong Kong Exhibition

An opening performance of schizodelic music by Alok, Shelf-Index, Sin:Ned, for Kago Shintaro's Unsanitary Hong Kong Exhibition.

28 MAR, 2013 (THUR)

OPEN: 7:30 PM
START: 8:30 PM

Admission: FREE

CIA (Culture Industries Association)
Unit 7, 8/F, Block B, Wah Tat Industrial Centre, 8-10 Wah Sing Street, Kwai Hing, Kowloon, Hong Kong
華達工業大厦B座八樓七室, 八至十號華星街, 葵興
www.CIAHK.org

Kago Shintaro Unsanitary Hong Kong Exhibition: Mar-29 to Apr-21

Special Q & A session w/ Kago Shintaro: Mar-30 7:00 PM

Thursday, March 14, 2013

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.11: TAISHI KAMIYA



 
RE-RECORDS & CIA PRESENT
NOISE to SIGNAL 0.11: TAISHI KAMIYA


Contemporary sonic composition and performance in a fresh perspective featuring Taishi Kimaya from Sapporo, Japan. Together with dj sniff and Nerve, we are on the edge of a convergence point where sound art, DJ culture, electronic music and traditional instrumentation turn into a sub-sensory discourse.

19 MAR, 2013 (TUE)
OPEN: 8:00 PM
START: 8:30 PM

PERFORMERS
Taishi Kamiya (Japan)
dj sniff (Japan / Hong Kong)
Nerve (Hong Kong)

Admission: HK$100 (Advance) / HK$130 (At door)

CIA (Culture Industries Association)
Unit 7, 8/F, Block B, Wah Tat Industrial Centre, 8-10 Wah Sing Street, Kwai Hing, Kowloon, Hong Kong

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Taishi Kamiya (Japan)
http://windtail.com/top.html
http://soundcloud.com/taishi_kamiya
Taishi Kamiya is a sound artist and a developer of sounding devices born in Sapporo.
He plays the soprano saxophone and processes saxophone sound and field recording sound in real time to create his music.

Also, he is interested in the site-specific characteristics of sounds. He pursues a moment in which sounds become music through his performances at various locations, such as temple and snow field, and composition of his installation works in which he creates unknown acoustic space by coordinating these site-specific sounds.

dj sniff (Japan / Hong Kong)
http://djsniff.com/
Takuro Mizuta Lippit (aka dj sniff) is a musician, curator and producer in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised music.

His musical work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing, instrument design and free improvisation. He is interested in how a mediated musical memory, from archival collections of vinyl records to digitally captured sound events during a performance, can be used to create a new sonic reality that emerges through the fleeting notion of the "now." This pursuit has led him to create customized instruments that allow him to intuitively access and re-play these different temporalities ingrained in our listening consciousness. His live performances range from carefully constructed solo sets to improvisational groups with virtuosic instrumentalists.

His curatorial work aims to present a global overview on new experimental approaches to music, sound and performance. He is often involved in facilitating the technical or conceptual development of the works that he features, and his network is built from being an active artist in the field. During his appointment as Artistic Director of STEIM (2007 - 2012) in Amsterdam, he has curated and produced over 100 projects including large scale international festivals and award winning art works.

He has performed throughout Europe, Asia and The United States at various venues and international festivals including Club Transmediale Berlin, Warsaw Autumn, Japan Society NYC, The REDCAT Los Angeles, March Meeting Sharjah, Jazz em Agosto Lisbon, and FLOW Festival Helsinki. He has released 12 DJ mixes and 2 solo albums, and his work has been reviewed in the New York Times, All About Jazz, The WIRE and createdigitalmusic.com.

He has musical projects with eRikM, Tatsuhisa Yamamoto, Astro Twin (Ami Yoshida & Utah Kawasaki), Adachi Tomomi, Keir Neuringer, Raed Yassin, Yutaka Makino, Paul Hubwebber, Future Fossils (Raoul van der Weide & Sanne van Hek), Daysuke Takaoka, Mark Sanders, Andy Moor (The Ex), Jaap Blonk and C. Spencer Yeh. In the past he has had the honor to play with some of his heroes such as Evan Parker, Otomo Yoshihide, Akira Sakata, David Toop, Martin Tetreault and Michel Waisvisz.

dj sniff is now based in Hong Kong.

Nerve (Hong Kong)
Graduated from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a master degree in composition and electronic music, Hui is a member of electronic music group VSOP and DJ of the clubnight “Are Friends Electric?”. With his multidisciplinary background, Hui’s main interest lies in exploring and experimenting the boundaries between contemporary music, sound art, multimedia theatre and pop culture. He was commissioned by Zuni Icosahedron to compose his first opera The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci in 2010, and commissioned by City University of Hong Kong to compose The Four Infinities for the opening of the Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre in 2012.


ABOUT RE-RECORDS & NOISE TO SIGNAL SERIES
Re-Records is a record label initiated by experimental / electro-acoustic duo No One Pulse from Hong Kong. With Re, we don’t solely aim to be an outlet for releasing self-initiated or other affiliated projects, but also for artists and releases we deem interesting.

Noise to Signal is a new performance series that focus on improvised experimental music within the context of performing art.  

Artists who had performed in our concert series:

… (CH), iii (HK), 23N! (JP), After Doom (HK), ahshun aka bjornho (HK), Alexei Borisov (RU), Alfred 23 Harth (DE), Alok (HK), ASTMA (RU), Black Zenith (SG), Brian O’Reilly (SG), Caligine (IT), Circuitrip (SG), Claudio Rocchetti (IT), Composers Union of New Tunes (HK), Da Xiao (CN), Dickson Dee (HK), dj sniff (NL), DJ Urine (FR), Diode (HK), e:ch (MO), Everdark (HK), Fritz Welch (UK), Fumiko Ikeda (JP), Go Koyashiki (JP), Gregory Buttner (DE), Heroses (HK), High Wolf (FR), Joao Vasco Paiva (HK), Jun-Y CIAO (CN), Kazuhisa Uchihashi (JP), Klaus Janek (IT), KLC_NIR (CN), KWC (HK), Laurent Valdès (CH), Li YangYang (CN), Li Zenghui (CN), Lin Zhiying (CN), Margie Tong (HK), Mei ZhiYong (CN), Meta Fog (HK), Naturalismo (IT), Nerve (HK), No One Pulse (HK), Oetzi.P (HK), Olaf Hochherz (DE), Olga Nosova (RU), Patrick Donze (CH), Purple Pilgrims (NZ), Ricardo da Silva (CH), Richard Francis (NZ), Shelf-Index (HK), Sherman (HK), shotahirama (JP), Sin:Ned (HK), Syndrome WPW (CH), Tetragrammaton (JP), The Invisible Frog and Time Machine (CN), Toshikazu Goto (JP), ::vtol:: (RU), Wilmer Ongsitco Chan (HK), Wilson Tsang (HK), Yan Jun (CN), Yang Xiu (CN), Yukitomo Hamasaki (JP), Zbigniew Karkowski (PL), ZenLu (CN)…

Please visit www.re-records.com or join our group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rerec

ABOUT CIA (Cultural Industries Association)
Through our regular programs of concerts, art exhibitions, film screenings, seminars and workshops, it is our hope to bring to you not what have we seen already, but rather how we perceived these ideas, their contexts, and how these seemingly abstract concepts can affect and relate to our everyday lives. To prompt changes, renew our senses and debase our previously fixated point of views, this is the only way to a future – any future away from here. According to Plato, we live chained inside a dark cave; all we can see is the back wall and the shadows that move there. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. That what we in fact seeing are aspects of ourselves that fall over one another. Shadows. Projections. Our associations - of the culture industries.