Saturday, April 27, 2013

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.15: DENSITY

 
RE-RECORDS & CIA PRESENTS
NOISE to SIGNAL 0.15: DENSITY


PERFORMERS
Tim Blechmann + Conny Zenk
Olaf Hochherz
ZHANG You-Sheng
Fiona Lee

10 MAY, 2013 (Fri)
OPEN: 8:00 PM
START: 8:30 PM

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

Venue: 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

For reservation and enquiries, please contact:
rerecordshk(at)gmail(dot)com
 
 
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Tim Blechmann
http://tim.klingt.org/
Tim Blechmann is an improviser and composer, using computer and loudspeakers as main instrument. His music is focused on static noise textures that are digitally generated and spatially projected in real-time. For live performances his preferred lineup is the duo with another improvising musicians. Regular collaborators include Klaus Filip, Manuel Knapp, Seijiro Murayama and Conny Zenk among others.

Conny Zenk
http://gaffaa.net/
http://urbanseed.wordpress.com/
http://ffid.at/
Conny Zenk, visual composer and media artist based in Vienna/ Burgenland and Shanghai. Born 1985 in Vienna, studied: Graphic Design at the "wiener kunst schule", Digital Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Film and Stage Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Communication and Arts at Tongji University Shanghai. works on projects and collaborations in the fields of performance, sound*,* video and installation. Exhibitions (selected): Gartenbaukino Wien, Schikaneder Kino Wien, Ars Electronica Festival, Künstlerhaus Wien, Ö1 Kunstradio Radiokulturhaus, Mapping Festival Genf, PlumsFest Moskau, Tanzquartier Wien, Thurn und Taxis Bregenz, Brut Konzerthaus, Aspern Seestadt.

Olaf Hochherz
http://hochherz.klingt.org/
Olaf Hochherz is born 1981 in Wuppertal/Germany. He studied at Folkwang Hochschule Essen electronic composition and at Bauhaus University Weimar media-art/media-design. Parallel to the education in composition he started to improvise with self build electronic instruments. He is interested in unstable systems. His goal is not to control a technical aperture but to create an associative field. The sounds have their own live. His playing tries to keep them alive. He is interested in the effect acoustic activity has, the relation between surrounding environment and instruments, between abstract sounds and associations, between electrical and other worlds.

ZHANG, You-Sheng
An improvising guitarist, an electronic noise player, a designer of theatre music and an organizer from Taipei . He used to have a rock band and join many festivals around Taiwan. Since 2009, he has run Kandala Records, the only sound label doing releases and organizing performance in Taiwan. The album Integration/Intervention into Tenryu City of Minkoku Hyakunen, consisted of him and Huang Dawang, got the award "Digital Music and Sound Art" of Prix Ars Electronica 2012.

Fiona Lee
www.fionaobscura.com
Fiona Lee was born in Hong Kong,SAR China in 1987. She obtained her Bachelor of
Arts, major in Critical Intermedia Laboratory in School of Creative Media, City
University of Hong Kong in 2011. Her workmacy> received
silver award in the Interactive Media Category of the 15th Hong Kong Independent
Short Film and Video Awards(IFVA) in 2010 .Besides, has been performed
in varies sound and multi-media art festivals in different countries .
She works on experimental film making,sound performance and interactive
installation. Recently, she focuses on the integration of natural material and daily
objects with the new technology, in order to explore the possibilities of personal
expression.

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), Christiaan Virant (FM3), 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), James Fei (US), Joao Vasco Paiva (HK), Jun-Y CIAO (CN), Kazuhisa Uchihashi (JP), Kevin Pang (HK), 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), Yellow Crystal (HK), 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.


New solo work of Alfred 23 Harth from Re-Records

 
 

RE-CD-008R
Alfred 23 Harth – As Yves Drew A Line. Estate

Multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer and visual artist Alfred Harth was born near Frankfurt/Main in Germany. He first recorded at age twenty with the free music ensemble Just Music which was issued on ECM (1002). In the late ’70s, he became interested in punk music and in addition to a regularly-working duo with multi-instrumentalist Heiner Goebbels, he played in punkjazz / improvisation / modern composition combos like Cassiber, Duck and Cover, Gestalt et Jive, Vladimir Estragon and Imperial Hoot. Since 2001 living and working also in Seoul, South Korea, he has been involved with Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Ensembles, composer Carl Stone, the groups 7k Oaks and Taste Tribes, his own multi-media and many more projects.

“As Yves Drew A Line. Estate” is the latest solo work from Alfred 23 Harth displaying his unique treatment on improvised jazz, noise, experimental sounds with cut-up technique. Real avant-garde music that tastes good while stays true to its challenging nature.

Filed under: Jazz, Improvisation, Noise, Experimental

NOISE MAY

may 2013 is going to be the noisiest month in the history in hong kong...

we are fully packed with more than we can take...

this is not a festival of any sort...
...
as we cannot afford any...

they are just insolated events happen to be close to one another in the tiny slice of our life known as may 2013...

this may be the end or this may be something else...

so catch them in time...

although i believe time is a nonlinear concept...

i know it's too much to the extend that it becomes insane...

but we (or just me?) like it this way...

as we (ok, yes, it's just me here) repect the way they are...

apr-28 8 pm / noise to signal 0.13 / CIA (HK)
Alfred 23 Harth x Alok x Kevin Pang x Sherman x Sin:Ned

may-1 8pm / noise-on-site chapter 2 / LMA (MO)
Alfred 23 Harth + Sin:Ned / Mei Zhiyong / Yellow Crystal / Scorpio /

may-3 8pm / noise to signal 0.14 / CIA (HK)
Mei Zhiyong / Naturalismo / Yellow Crystal / Sin:Ned

may-10 8pm / noise to signal 0.15 / CIA (HK)
Tim Blechmann + Conny Zenk / Olaf Hochherz / ZHANG You-Sheng / Fiona Lee

may-11???
i will probably kill the largest artificial plant alive somewhere along the coastline in hong kong...

may-18 2pm / noise to signal 0.16 / CIA (HK)
Dawang Yingfan Huang (Black Wolf) / Naturalismo / Sin:Ned

may-25 8pm / noise to signal 0.17 / CIA (HK)
Fritz Welch / Everdark / Sin:Ned

some useful links to save you from this madness:

http://sin-ned.blogspot.hk/

www.CIAHK.org

http://www.re-records.com/discography/re-cd-008r/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/rerec/

that's it for now...until next time...if we have next time...

just remember, time is a nonlinear concept...

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Noise-on-Site : Chapter 2

噪音現場:第二回
Noise-on-Site : Chapter 2

Artists :
Alfred 23 Harth (Germany)
Mei Zhiyong (China)
Yellow Crystal (Hong Kong)
Scorpio (Macau)

Special Guest: Sin:Ned (Hong Kong)

Date:May-01, 2013
Time:8:00 pm
Venue:現場音樂協會(LMA)

Address:
澳門美副將大馬路 48-48D 萬基工業大厦10 樓B
Av. Do Coronel Mesquita, Nos 48-48D, Edif. Ind. Man Kei,10B

Admission:
MOP$100 (at door)
MOP$80 (advance reservation)

Ticket Office: 邊度有音樂(Pin-to Musica)

Programme Inquiry:(853) -28921191

主辦:Pin-to Musica / Day's Eye Records
鳴謝:現場音樂協會LMA


Alfred 23 Harth (Germany)
http://www.alfredharth.de/data/_index.html

檢視Harth的個人音樂生涯真是洋洋灑灑,說他是現存前衛音樂活字典實不為過,這位活躍實驗音樂圈四十多年、集作曲、跨媒體、多樂器演奏於一身的奇人,不但親身經歷過好幾個實驗音樂的變化發展階段,其涉獵範圍之廣與始終不變的實驗精神尤其令人敬重,早在1969年德國新音樂名廠ECM才剛成立時,年僅二十歲的他即以當年西德自由即興組合Just Music成員身份,在ECM留下編號1002的《Just Music》,這張依然沒有CD化的絕版專輯從此成為許多歐陸即興樂迷的夢幻逸品,不過這只是他往後豐富曲折的音樂人生一個小小開始而已。七0年代他跟Heiner Goebbels的二重奏以及跟Uwe Schmitt、Buschi Niebergall的三重奏是當時德國自由爵士的中堅力量,其中他跟Goebbels的合作特別成功,不但以兩人為核心演化出更多組合(最有名的莫過於前衛搖滾四重奏Cassiber),同時留下許多優秀作品,包括1981年他和Goebbels錄製爵士加詩歌的專輯《Zeit wird knapp》,其中的詞源於布萊希特。事實上Harth還真的曾經幫布萊希特的戲劇作品“Der Brotladen(麵包店)”作曲。另外值得一提的是他們是最早將革命京劇音源採樣拼貼在西方當代音樂作品的音樂家。

此外Harth在80年代初也曾經組成大樂團,在ECM/JAPO發行專輯《Es herrscht Uhu im Land》,音樂融合朋克、爵士和古典風格,迅即獲得廣泛注目,往後不管他與John Zorn的二重奏;與Peter Brötzmann和Sonny Sharrock的三重奏;或者是跟Lindsay Cooper和Phil Minton的三重奏等等都十分精彩,加上他靈活運用不同實驗音樂手法在一些劇場、影視、舞蹈跟廣播劇音樂創作,至今留下數量可觀的錄音。2000年後,Harth將觸角伸向韓國及日本,2004起更成為大友良英ONJO樂團首位固定外國成員。這幾年他開始往中國了解新音樂發展狀況,積極跟中國年輕實驗音樂人交流。

Multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer and visual artist Alfred Harth was born near Frankfurt in 1949. He first recorded at age twenty with the ensemble Just Music, with whom he recorded two LP's, one of which was issued on ECM. Throughout the 1970s he worked with musicians like pianist Nicole Van Den Plas, drummer Sven-Ake Johansson, bassist Peter Kowald, trumpeter Michael Sell and others in West European free music. In the late '70s, he became interested in punk music and in addition to a regularly-working duo with multi-instrumentalist Heiner Goebbels, he worked in punk / progrock / improvisation / modern composition combos like Cassiber and Gestalt et Jive. Since moving to Seoul, South Korea in 2001, he has been involved with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra and his own multi-media projects.


Mei Zhiyong (China)
http://site.douban.com/meizhiyong/room/2668342/
http://www.fuzztape.com/

粗噪音、環境噪音、噪音磁帶廠牌fuzztape發起人,nojiji死硬團體人員。尋找癲狂 爆炸大音量的方式粗噪音。探索發現聲音在各種古靈精怪發聲器的鑽研。

Harsh noise performer, founder of the tape release label Fuzztape, and member of the Chinese noise collective NOJIJI. As a noise artist, he is looking for insane expression of high volume harsh noise, and unusual ways of releasing sound from all kinds of device.


Yellow Crystal (Hong Kong)
http://www.myspace.com/shermanho
http://soundcloud.com/heivard

An experimental guitar and electronics duo formed by Sherman and Heivard.
Sherman plays electric guitar and effect pedals. His debut solo work “Politely We Grow Old” was released by Lona Records in 2006.Heivard is a musician / sound artisted based in Hong Kong. An experimentalist who shapes Ambient, Glitch, IDM and other sonic arts into unpredictable forms. His works have been released by Fwonk*, Inside│Outside and other net labels under creative commons licenses.


Sin:Ned (Hong Kong)
http://sin-ned.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/sin_ned
http://www.maitreyana.com/
http://www.re-records.com/

Sin:Ned (黃仲輝),樂評人、實驗電音及聲音藝術創作人。Sin:Ned 最早出現於香港另類音樂雜誌 MCB (音樂殖民地),擅長以實驗性文體及偏險的理論化角度進行音樂論述。 同時沉迷及專門鑽研逆向性的實驗聲音創作,和反傳統的發聲技巧。所指涉的範疇包括即興演奏、聲音藝術、實驗音樂、噪音藝術及田野錄音。曾參與及出演過《香港視野音樂節》、大聲展、深圳香港城市\建築双城双年展等藝術展。他的首兩張個人作品《Uroborus: A Study On No-input Device》及《60 Seconds: A Schizophrenic Manual For Eternity》,均於2006年發表於Lona Records名下。他不但是概念電聲學二人組No One Pulse及筆記本電腦三人組iii的成員,同時亦是實驗音樂廠牌Re-Records的創辦人之一。

Sin:Ned, aka Wong Chung-fai, is an unorthodox sonic evangelist who practices improvisational mysticism. He is the co-founder of Re-Records and No One pulse.


Scorpio (Macao)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Scorpio/130452350349969
http://scorpioloi.wordpress.com/

SCORPIO是藝名, 是一個音樂與影像的結合, 由澳門的雷宏於2010年創立。雷宏自2007年開始創作電子音樂和視覺藝術。

SCORPIO is the stage name, an integration of sound and image, cryptic and dramatic, yet eccentric. It was created by Loi Wang in 2010. Loi Wang is the one-man band. He is based in Macau, and has made electronic music and visual arts since 2007.

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.14: NOISE on NOISE

 
 

RE-RECORDS & CIA PRESENTS
NOISE to SIGNAL 0.14: NOISE on NOISE

PERFORMERS
Mei Zhiyong (CN)
... Naturalismo (IT)
Yellow Crystal (HK)
Sin:Ned (HK)

3 MAY, 2013 (Fri)
OPEN: 8:00 PM
START: 8:30 PM

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

Venue: 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

For reservation and enquiries, please contact:
rerecordshk@gmail.com

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Mei Zhiyong梅志勇 (China)
http://site.douban.com/meizhiyong/room/2668342/
http://www.fuzztape.com/
Harsh noise performer, founder of the tape release label Fuzztape, and member of the Chinese noise collective NOJIJI. As a noise artist, he is looking for insane expression of high volume harsh noise, and unusual ways of releasing sound from all kinds of device.

Naturalismo (Italy)
www.monstresparexces.com
Previously known as Istituzioni Ambienti Naturalismo. It all starts with a microcassette recorder wandering in Rome subway, taping live cut-up bursts of saturated city life. Shifts to harsh noise that struggles to keep a buried layer of melody. Sometimes fails at it. Explores the sounds of lights, sonorizes short video studies on lenses and lightning. Converts to silent sounds, the breath of small things, the daily tinkling sounds of lived houses. Explores minimalism with irony, always loyal to cheapness and imperfection. Dissects an acoustic guitar with a screwdiver. Keeps going.

Yellow Crystal (Hong Kong)
http://www.myspace.com/shermanho
http://soundcloud.com/heivard
An experimental guitar and electronics duo formed by Sherman and Heivard.

Sherman plays electric guitar and effect pedals. His debut solo work “Politely We Grow Old” was released by Lona Records in 2006.

Heivard is a musician / sound artist based in Hong Kong. An experimentalist who shapes Ambient, Glitch, IDM and other sonic arts into unpredictable forms. His works have been released by Fwonk*, Inside│Outside and other net labels under creative commons licenses.

Sin:Ned (Hong Kong)
www.sin-ned.blogspot.com
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), Christiaan Virant (FM3), 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), James Fei (US), 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 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, April 18, 2013

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.13: SHARK WITHOUT FIN BY A23H

 
 
RE-RECORDS & CIA PRESENTS
NOISE to SIGNAL 0.13: SHARK WITHOUT FIN BY A23H


An imaginary soundtrack for the not yet existed experimental short film of the same title conceived by Alfred 23 Harth.

... A new solo album of Alfred 23 Harth, "As Yves Drew A Line. Estate", will also be released by Re-Records at this concert.

PERFORMERS
Alfred 23 Harth
Alok
Kevin Pang
Sherman
Sin:Ned

28 APR, 2013 (SUN)
OPEN: 8:00 PM
START: 8:30 PM

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

Venue: 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

For reservation and enquiries, please contact:
rerecordshk@gmail.com

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Alfred 23 Harth (Germany / Korea)
http://www.alfredharth.de/data/_index.html
Multi-instrumentalist, improviser, composer and visual artist Alfred Harth was born near Frankfurt in 1949. He first recorded at age twenty with the ensemble Just Music, with whom he recorded two LP's, one of which was issued on ECM. Throughout the 1970s he worked with musicians like pianist Nicole Van Den Plas, drummer Sven-Ake Johansson, bassist Peter Kowald, trumpeter Michael Sell and others in West European free music. In the late '70s, he became interested in punk music and in addition to a regularly-working duo with multi-instrumentalist Heiner Goebbels, he worked in punk / progrock / improvisation / modern composition combos like Cassiber and Gestalt et Jive. Since moving to Seoul, South Korea in 2001, he has been involved with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra and his own multi-media projects.

Alok (Hong Kong)
http://www.facebook.com/alokleung
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?”.

Kevin Pang (潘折騰) (Hong Kong)
Free improvisation guitarist and member of Composers Union of New Tunes. His style ranges from pop music, avant-jazz, psychedelic rock and folk music. He enters the uncharted territory of free improvisation due to the lack of excitement in the current rock and pop music scene. He is currently working on the debut release of Composers Union of New Tunes.

Sherman (Hong Kong)
http://www.myspace.com/shermanho
Sherman plays electric guitar and effect pedals. His debut solo work “Politely We Grow Old” was released by Lona Records in 2006.

Sin:Ned (Hong Kong)
www.sin-ned.blogspot.com
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), Christiaan Virant (FM3), 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), James Fei (US), 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 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.
 



Monday, April 01, 2013

Closing Performance - Kago Shintaro Unsanitary HK Exhibition

PERFORMERS
Gary War (US)
Purple Pilgrims (NZ)
Caligine (IT)
Composers Union of New Tunes (HK)

21 APR, 2013 (SUN)
OPEN: 8:00 PM
START: 8:30 PM
 
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
 
 
Enquiry & booking: rerecordshk(at)gmail(dot)com
 
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
 
Gary War
Gary War is an Avant-Garde musician born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1979. His recordings combine tape and digital collage techniques with heavily synthesized electronic psychedelia, acid punk, musique concrete and certain elements of classical music, progressive rock and dance music into a mutant strain of damaged yet accessible future music. War is currently based in New York City and Gloucester, MA.
 
Purple Pilgrims
Purple Pilgrims are two NZ/now Hong Kong based sisters, Clementine and Valentine Nixon and the sonics are out of this world, with distant, barely audible female vocals over heavenly smears of super-degraded guitar amp hiss and the feel off muzzy choral music with undersea fidelity and an inchoate devotional aspect that is spectacularly affecting. (...) Spectacularly beautiful, with an expressive use of fidelity that goes well beyond the long blank and into radical new zones of suggestive lo-grade/high-mass psych. volcanictongue.com
 
Caligine
www.monstresparexces.com
Caligine is the Italian word for haze, smog, mist. It all started five years ago as a move away from moving away. Smokey and hazy acoustic textures beneath a grain of noisy dust. A process carried on year by year, worshipping the grain of wood. Rejecting the form, accepting the embrace. A collective endeavor without belonging. If art is stealing from the most obscure sources, we’re looking for pure craftsmanship: psychedelic ragas, strings cascading in chained loops, loose fingerpicking and all the pretty little bells.
 
Composers Union of New Tunes
Composers Union of New Tunes is a lethal free Improvisational duo from Hong Kong formed by Kevin Pan (guitars, vocals) and Callum MacKenzie (sax). Kevin used to play in bands like Heta Uma and Charisma. Callum is currently playing in a wide variety of different jazz groups in Hong Kong.