Monday, December 08, 2014

"Music Begins" for Zbigniew Karkowski


"Music Begins"
for Zbigniew Karkowski
(1958–2014)

2014.12.14 (SUN) @ 落合SOUP
http://ochiaisoup.tumblr.com/#103432416129
OPEN/START: 18:00/18:30
DOOR CHARGE: ¥1500

With performances by: Tetsuo Furudate, Dennis Wong (Hong Kong), Lars Åkerlund (Sweden), Blackphone666, Christophe Charles + Cal Lyall, miclodiet × Yousuke Fuyama
Featuring compositions by: Zbigniew Karkowski, PAINJERK
DJ: Evil Penguin...

Tetsuo Furudate
http://www.tetsuofurudate.info/

Sin:Ned (aka Dennis Wong, from Hong Kong)
http://www.re-records.com/people/sin-ned

Lars Åkerlund (Sweden)
http://www.larsakerlund.com/

Blackphone666
http://www.geocities.jp/made_in_nakano

Christophe Charles + Cal Lyall
http://home.att.ne.jp/grape/charles
http://www.subvalent.com/cal-lyall

miclodiet × Yousuke Fuyama
http://vimeo.com/38836525

DJ: Evil Penguin

Friday, November 28, 2014

Re-Records & Twenty Alpha presents: Sin:Ned | e:ch | Phantom @ Clockenflap 2014

 
Re-Records & Twenty Alpha presents: Sin:Ned | e:ch | Phantom
4'33" Stage @ Clockenflap 2014

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 [Nov 29, 2014] 16:00 e:ch | 18:00 Sin:Ned | 20:00 Phantom

 [Nov 30, 2014] 14:00 Phantom | 16:00 Sin:Ned | 20:00 e:ch
 

 
 

CITY | SOUND | ROAD | MUSIC


[2014 Kowloon City Book Fair] CITY | SOUND | ROAD | MUSIC - Installation Art + Performance
https://www.facebook.com/events/751546591595061/

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Installation: Nov 29 - 30, 2014 at Open Studio (Ground Floor), HKICC Lee Shau Kee School Of Creativity

Artists: No One Pulse (HK) and Cao Shuying 曹疏影 (HK)

Performance: Nov 29, 2014 at Open Studio (Ground Floor), HKICC Lee Shau Kee School Of Creativity

Time: 4pm - 8pm
Performers: No One Pulse (HK), Caligine (IT) and Sherman (HK)


Sunday, November 23, 2014

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.28: Ting Shuo



NOISE to SIGNAL 0.28: Ting Shuo

FM3V Quartet is a special performing outfit led by Christiaan Virant of FM3, and they will be presenting songs from FM3's new full length album “Ting Shuo”, in an all new electronic / acoustic format.

Performer:
FM3V Quartet
(audio/visual live set + artist talk & introduction)

Supporting Guests:
Jasper Fung (HK)
Oliver Coates (UK) + Aming Liang (CN) + Sin:Ned (HK)

Date: Dec-6, 2014
Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: VIP Room, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Lok Fu MTR Exit B)
Admission: Pay What You Want

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha
Venue Sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

Monday, October 27, 2014

ACO Sound-On-Site: Slow Burn

 
 
ACO Sound-On-Site: Slow Burn

Slow Burn is a series of mini live session for explorative sound and music performance in an intimate format under the new ACO Sound-On-Site program. Every time we will invite different innovative artists and musicians to collaborate on creating some challenging but interesting music.

Performers:
Callum MacKenize (Saxophone / US)
Wilmer Chan (Bass / HK)
Sin:Ned (Electronics / HK)

Date: Nov-8, 2014
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Art & Culture Outreach
Address: 14/F, Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Admission: Free Donation

Enquiry: 2893 4808
Web Site: http://aco.hk/

Presented by Art & Culture Outreach
Curated by Twenty Alpha & Re-Records

About ACO Sound-On-Site
Sound-On-Site is a site specific program presented by ACO (Art & Culture Outreach) in collaboration with Twenty Alpha and Re-Records. With Sound-On-Site, we aim to develop an intimate and meaningful dialogue between the specific space, the artists and the audiences, and at the same time, create an inspiring art enjoyment experience for the audiences.

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《艺鵠場域定聲 : 緩燃》

《緩燃》是《艺鵠場域定聲》計劃底下的一系列迷你演出聚會。每次演出聚會,我們都會邀請不同的創意音樂人合作,為大家在一個開放而親密的環境底下,試煉先鋒創意音樂的闊度、彈性及感性體溫。

演出藝術家:
Callum MacKenize (色士風 / 美國)
Wilmer Chan (低音結他 / 香港)
Sin:Ned (電子樂器 / 香港)

日期:十一月八日, 二零一四年
時間:晚上八點
地點:艺鵠
地址:香港灣仔軒尼詩道365-367號富德樓14樓
門票:自由捐獻

查詢電話:2893 4808
網址: http://aco.hk/

主辦:艺鵠
策劃:Twenty Alpha & Re-Records

關於《艺鵠場域定聲》
《場域定聲》是一個由艺鵠主辦,並由Twenty Alpha及Re-Records策劃,以聲音為焦點的場域特定藝術計劃。藝術家及觀眾,會透過不同的特定場域,及富啟發性及趣味性的藝術體驗,進行親密而意味深長的對話。

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About the Performers

Callum MacKenzie
Callum MacKenzie is a saxophone and flute player from New York. He attended Berklee College of Music where he studied Jazz Composition. Since then he has been a member of a number of different bands and duos in the jazz and avant garde spheres, notably Hong Kong's Composer's Union of New Tunes, Toronto's Lottery Tickets and Boston's Jazz Tellers. He also writes the comic book Eyesight, which you can read at http://www.eyesightcomix.com/

Wilmer Chan
Wilmer Chan (born 1985) studied at Lawrence University of Wisconsin and graduated in 2012 with a bachelor in music composition. Wilmer is deeply interested with the expressions and spontaneity of improvisation across all music genres. Musical highlight in the recent years includes collaborations with improvisor Sabu Toyozumi, Alfred Harth, Composer Martijn Tellinga and the Deep Listening Band.

Sin:Ned
An experimentalist, improviser and noise addict. Founding memeber of local experimental outfit No One Pulse, After Doom, adeo and underture. Co-founder of Re-records.


Wednesday, October 08, 2014

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.27: Modulation


NOISE to SIGNAL 0.27 : Modulation

Dream of wires and think in patches !! Gear up for modular synthesizers overloaded with electronic madness !! Full analogue electronic music of retro-futurism !! Featuring modular synth wizzard Robert Piotrowicz (Poland), Olaf Hochherz (Germany), Phantom (Hong Kong) and Alain Chiu (Hong Kong).

Performers:
Robert Piotrowicz (PL)
Olaf Hochherz (DE)
Phantom (HK)
Alain Chiu (HK)

Date: Oct-25, 2014
Time: 8:30 PM...
Venue: VIP Room, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Lok Fu MTR Exit B)

Admission: Pay What You Want

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha
Venue Sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

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About the performers:

Robert Piotrowicz (PL)
robertpiotrowicz.net
Robert Piotrowicz is a sound artist, composer and improviser. He has authored radio dramas, sound installations, and music for theatre productions, and collaborates regularly with other artists on audio-visual performances. As an instrumentalist, Piotrowicz works mainly with his own live performance setup, developed around the electric guitar and analogue modular synthesiser. His music has as much in common with contemporary electro-acoustic compositions as it does with sound art. His concerts feature saturated, detailed musical forms created with analogue synthesizers and computers. He has developed his trademark sound of intense dynamics seized in dramatic and balanced structures.

PIotrowicz has released several solo albums as well as collaborations with artists such as Burkhard Stangl, Anna Zaradny, Jérôme Noetinger, C. Spencer Yeh and Kevin Drumm. Other collaborators in recent years included Valerio Tricoli, Oren Ambarchi, Martin Klapper, Zbigniew Karkowski, Łukasz Szałankiewicz, Lasse Marhaug, John Hegre, Kasper Toepltz, Xavier Charles,Tony Buck and others.

He is also co-founder of the Musica Genera Festival and the Musica Genera label.

Olaf Hochherz (DE)
http://hochherz.klingt.org/
Olaf Hochherz is born 1981 in Wuppertal/Germany. He improvises with self build electronic instruments and 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.

Phantom (HK)
Phantom, a local modular synthesizer duo of Hong Kong established by William Cheung in 2014. Timmy Lok joined and started to improvise free form electronic music using all analogue full or semi-modular synthesizer systems.

Alain Chiu (HK)
http://alainchiu.com/
 Award-winning composer Alain Chiu’s music has been performed in concert halls and festivals throughout the world. His music was heard in the 41st & 42nd Hong Kong Arts Festival, Hong Kong Week at Taipei, Jumping Frames Italy Tour and Cannes Film Festival, and has been performed by the Ives Quartet, the Afiara Quartet, William Lane, Kung Chi Shing, Louis Siu and among many fine musicians.

Chiu’s music was recorded by the Grammy Award winning ensemble Orchestra of Our Time in 2011. He is working on a multimedia opera that deals with class issues in Hong Kong.

Sunday, September 14, 2014

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.26 Electric Borderland


NOISE to SIGNAL 0.26 : Electric Borderland

A showcase of hybrid electronic music that goes beyond the standard technological format, featuring electronic experimentalist Tim Blechmann (Austria), analogue punker Soviet Pop (Beijing), and our very own drums and guitar duo The Language Lab.

Performers:
Tim Blechmann (AT)
Soviet Pop (CN)
The Language Lab (HK)

Date: Sep-30, 2014
Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: VIP Room, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Lok Fu MTR Exit B)
Admission: Pay What You Want

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha
Venue Sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

About the Performers:

Tim Blechmann (AT)
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 other improvising musician. Regular collaborators include Klaus Filip, Manuel Knapp, Seijiro Murayama and Conny Zenk among others.

Soviet Pop (CN)
http://sovietpopbeijing.bandcamp.com/
A Sound-based Oscillator-Duo (Li Qing and Li Weisi), using analog synth and lo-fi equipments to make old sound in their first album The Dialogue. Now they`ve abandoned the keyboards, using only oscillators and patch cords, to play dirty oscillator punk songs. Sometimes they also play experimental compositions, pure noise or other nice shit.

The Language Lab (HK)
http://www.youtube.com/theLanguageLab
"The Language Lab" is a project led by visual designer Koo Park-kin and sound engineer Tse Kam-po. They believe that music is an inborn language and try to realize this by recording sonic experiments in varied environments. They would communicate in impromptu pieces with the unconventional use of musical instruments and audio equipment. They are convinced that a concert will come naturally in the process. Results from the current experiments show that this kind of music possesses features of such genres as movie soundtracks, avant-garde, dance, ethnic, rock and noise.

About organizers:
Re-Records
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.
http://www.re-records.com/

Twenty Alpha | 20ά
20α (Twenty Alpha) focuses on the development of experimental music and film in Hong Kong. We strive to connect musicians, filmmakers, organizations, venues from local and worldwide, and share the outcome with Hong Kong audiences, especially youth. Our goal is to provide a platform for experiment through interaction and collaboration. We believe knowledge and creativity can be enhanced by deeper level of collaboration and exchange of ideas.

Programme & Ticketing Enquiries: rerecordshk@gmail.com
Press Inquiries: +852 2139 5230 / info@twentyalpha.org

Thursday, August 28, 2014

SUBLIMINAL LOUNGE #2: SURREALISME



SUBLIMINAL LOUNGE #2: SURREALISME
Music for Surrealist Movies

Live sound track performed by Swiss experimental trio DEER for silent surrealist films « La Perle » and « Monsieur Fantômas », with post-performance artist talk.

Live soundtrack:
DEER (CH)

Movie screening:
La Perle (Belgien 1929, 33 min), Henri d'Ursel
Monsieur Fantômas (Belgien 1937, 17 min), Ernst Moermann

Date: Sep-13, 2014
Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: VIP Room, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
Admission: Pay What You Want

Jointly presented by Re-Records &Twenty Alpha
Venue sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

About the movies:
La Perle was a surrealist film directed by Henri d'Ursel in 1929 under the pseudonym "Henri d'Arche". Henri d'Ursel was born in Brussels, Belgium. During the 1920s, he lived in Paris at the height of the surrealist and avant-garde movements. The film was based on a story by Georges Hugnet. In the film, a young man buys a pearl for his fiancée. He walks out of the jewelry store that opens onto a forest. He counts the pearls and realizes one is missing so he gets back to the store. On entering he catches sight of an alluring saleslady sitting on a showcase with her skirt lifted. On one of her stockings, close to the garter, another pearl necklace is tied. The young man takes it away from her. Outraged, the jeweler fires the assistant, who goes away with the man sitting on the handlebar of his bike. After this, the pearl is lost, found, lost again.

Monsieur Fantômas was a surrealist film made by Ernst Moerman in 1937. Shot on a shoestring budget on a beach and in an old cloister, the style of this scathing surrealist satire is immediately recognizable as that of the Feuillade serials. In top hat and tails, the Master of Crime (played by the future father of French singer Johnny Hallyday) tours the world in pursuit of the beautiful Elvire, punctuating his travels with mischief and acts to offend proper decency. The film encompasses amour fou, the meanders of dreams, fanatical anti-clericalism and a plea for subversion and adventure in "a world where nothing is impossible, where the miracle is the shortest route from our uncertainty to mystery

About the performer
DEER is a trio formed by bass clarinet players Hans Koch, Christian Müller and Silber Ingold, three prominent heads of the experimental music scene of Biel, Switzerland. Their playful interest in electroacoustic experiments is not only leading to filigree sound architecture, but also to heavy and dark soundscapes.

The trio DEER explores the miscellaneous sound colours of the bass clarinet and the different manners of playing it. Equipped with all kinds of electronic devices and effects, the three musicians take a close look at the sound and search for new depth in the interaction of the acoustic tone and the electronic way of examining it. In extension of the conceptual approach the trio also allows elements of improvisation in its play, thus connecting strictness with interacting freshness and stylistic playfulness.

About Subliminal Lounge
Subliminal Lounge is a series of movie screening and live performance event initiated by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha to interactively explore and recreate the connection between moving images and sound.

Tuesday, August 05, 2014

The Subconscious Restaurant Asia Tour - HK



The Subconscious Restaurant is a new publication by White Fungus. To release the second issue of The Subconscious Restaurant, White Fungus will hold release events at Zajia Lab in Beijing, and XXX in Hong Kong. The events will feature sound performances by artists Wang Fujui (Taipei), Noise Steve (Taichung), as well as a dance performance by Zahra Killeen-Chance (Auckland). The Beijing will also include performances by Yan Jun and Rat’The Spy‘ 51. In Hong Kong there will be performances by Sin:Ned, e:ch, Wilmer Chan, KWC and Nerve. People who attend the event will receive a free copy of the new publication.

The Subconscious Restaurant is now a full bilingual (Chinese and English) magazine. The second issue includes an interview with Lee Kit, plus articles on Dawang Yingfan, Betty Apple, Dominick Fernow, and the history of legendary Taipei music venue Underworld. The publication features poetry from Hsia Yu and much more.

The Subconscious Restaurant 是由White Fungus 所發行的一本新刊物。為了發表The Subconscious Restaurant issue 2,White Fungus 將會在北京雜家和香港XXX 舉辦活動。這場活動以聲音表演為主,藝術家有來自臺北王福瑞、臺中陳史帝,也將有由來自奧克蘭的舞蹈表演家Zahra Killeen-Chance。北京場的表演者也包括顏峻及潜鼠51;香港則包含Sin:Ned、e:ch、Wilmer Chan, KWC 和Nerve。而出席活動的觀眾會免費得到這本新刊物。

The Subconscious Restaurant 2 是一本全雙語(中文及英文)的雜誌。這次內容包含和香港藝術家Lee Kit 的訪談外加關於臺灣藝術家黃大旺、Betty Apple、Dominick Fernow 的專題,還有探討臺北傳奇性的音樂空間「地下社會」的歷史。這本刊物也將收錄夏宇的詩集與更多的內容。

Performers:
Wang Fujui (TW)
Noise Steve (TW)
Zagra Killeen-Chance (NZ)
e:ch (MO)
KWC (HK)
Nerve (HK)
Wilmer Chan (HK)
Sin:Ned (HK)

Date: Aug-23, 2014
Time: 9:00 PM
Venue: XXX Gallery, B/F, 353-363 Des Voeux Rd. West, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
Admission: HKD150 (with a free copy of The Subconscious Restaurant 2)

Presented by White Fungus
Co-organized by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha
Venue Partner: XXX Gallery

About the Performers

Wang Fujui 王福瑞
Wang Fujui is one of the pioneers of Taiwanese noise and digital art. After studying at Golden Gate University in the 1990s, WANG returned to Taiwan and founded “noise”, the island’s first publication and label dedicated to the new music. In 2013 he had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Hypertransmission. He has performed all over the world including at the Re-Opening of Queens Museum in New York and at Ars Electronica Center in Niels, Austria.

1990 年代噪音及前衛聲響的引進者之一,台灣傳奇噪音雜誌「NOISE」主辦人,現任職於北藝大,不少學生在其鼓舞下投入聲音藝術領域。近年演出及展覽頻繁,往來香港、日本、美西與澳洲,作品融合電子脈衝聲響與直勾耳膜的高頻噪音,加上動態凜冽的幾何影像,十足未來感,細緻的氛圍中不失狂野與暴力。 soundwatchtw.blogspot.tw/

Noise Steve 陳史帝
Influenced by the rave parties popular in Taiwan at the end of the 1990s, Chen and some friends began to organize a series of do-it-yourself, guerrilla-style raves in such locations as a hair salon and outside a roast duck shop. After viewing the noise art performance Static Riot by Wang Fujui, Chen decided to change course and pursue noise art. In 2002, Chen co-founded the Malt Fermentation Workshop in Taichung City, one of very few venues promoting experimental electronic music outside the capital city of Taipei. The group organized Taichung’s first noise art festival, Electroacoustic Counterattack.

1990 末期,隨著 rave parties 在臺灣漸受歡迎,陳史帝和幾個志同道合的朋友在本地的髮廊,甚至烤鴨店門口開始組織起一系列的革命性原創。在無意中觀賞了王福瑞的noise art 表演 Static Riot 後, 陳史帝決定更換方向,開始研討有聲藝術。 2002 年,在台中合創了Malt Fermentation Workshop,也成為首都臺北外最能發揚實驗電子音樂的場所。他們主辦了台中的第一屆有聲藝術節: Electroacoustic Counterattach。

e:ch
e:ch is the solo experimental project of Eric Chan, mostly known as the frontman of Alt Rock band Forget the G. e:ch is also a member of Macau noise band adeo and currently working as e:ch & the forgottens for a brand new album.

e:ch 是一個由Eric Chan 所進行的澳門實驗搖滾的噪音計劃,他最廣為人知的是身為澳門獨立樂團Forget the G 的主唱。e:ch也是香港噪音樂團adeo成員之一,近期以e:ch & the forgottens 身份製作一張全新專輯中。

KWC
Born and brewed in Hong Kong, KWC spends time cutting loops and recording with his non-standard devices, he’s 1/2 of the electroacoustic improvisation duo No One Pulse and co-founder of the experimental imprint Re-Records. His work had been featured and performed in Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2007/09), Architecture is Art Festival (2009) and Kill The Silence Festival (2013/14).

KWC,土生土長的香港樂手。獨立實驗音樂廠牌Re-Records 的創辦人之一及電聲學組合No One Pulse 成員。於2010 年發表個人大碟《Music For Introverts》; 並曾參演「大聲展」(2007)、「港深城市\ 建築雙城雙年展」(2007/09) 、「建築是藝術節」(2009) 、「Kill The Silence音樂節」(2013/14) 等項目。

Nerve
Steve Hui (a.k.a. Nerve) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Hong Kong, whose practice mines the boundaries between contemporary music, sound art, multimedia theatre and underground subcultures. He is a member of the band A Rollor Control and club music collective Sessions.

樂隊 A Roller Control 成員,派對夜 Sessions 唱片騎師。經常以多重身份遊走於現代音樂、聲音藝術、多媒體劇場及地下文化之間。 www.lo4nerve.com/

Wilmer Chan 陳柏達
Wilmer Chan (born 1985) studied at Lawrence University of Wisconsin and graduated in 2012 with a bachelor in music composition. Wilmer is deeply interested with the expressions and spontaneity of improvisation across all music genres. Musical highlight in the recent years includes collaborations with improvisor Sabu Toyozumi, Alfred Harth, Composer Martijn Tellinga and the Deep Listening Band.

陳柏達於一九八五出生,二零一二年於美國威斯康辛州的勞輪斯大學讀取作曲系學士。 陳氏熱衷於各種不同類形的即興音樂,近年來比較重要的經驗分別是和樂手 豐住芳三郎;Alfred Harth;作曲家 Martijn Tellinga 和 The Deep Listening Band 的合作。

Sin:Ned 黃仲輝
Improviser, experimentalist and noise practitioner from Hong Kong. Advocator of sonic mysticism for freedom against the system in chaos and errors. Co-founder of Re-Records and advisor of soundpocket. Founding member of No One Pulse and After Doom. Currently running the live performance series NOISE to SIGNAL. Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB, his writings had influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners in Hong Kong and China.

黃仲輝 (aka Sin:Ned) ,香港即興、實驗及噪音演奏者,想信一種可透過混沌、誤差及極端性而直接體驗的純物理性的聲音神秘主義。他是實驗音樂廠牌Re-Records 的創辦人、聲音藝術團體「聲音掏腰包」的顧問,樂團 No One Pulse、After Doom、adeo 等之核心成員,亦是演出系列NOISE to SIGNAL 的主謀。作為一位前樂評人,他的文字劍走偏鋒,影響了一眾香港及中國實驗樂手及聆聽者。作為一位實驗演奏者,他的創作角度依然偏險而富爭議性,並參演「大聲展」(2007) 、「港深城市\建築雙城雙年展」(2007,2009) 、「建築是藝術節」(2009) 、「北歐音樂節廣州站」(2009) 、「福岡極端音樂節」(2012) 、「新視野藝術節」(2012) 、「密集音樂節」(2013) 、「Kill The Silence 音樂節」(2013) 等項目。他的作品,先後被輯錄於比利時先鋒音樂廠牌Sub Rosa 的《An Anthology of Chinese Electronic Music》及《An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music Vol. 7》。

Monday, August 04, 2014

Noise-on-Site Chapter 4: Unii Live in Macau


Noise on Site-Chapter 4: unii (JP) Live in Macau

Date: 18th Aug 2014
Time: 8pm
Ticket: $60

Lineup:
- unii
- Noise808

Venue:
Address:
澳門議事亭前地31號永興大廈2B
2B, Veng Heng Largo do Senado, 31, Macao

noise.to.signal_0.25_glitch.pop


glitch! pop! all electronic! pure orientalism! featuring japanese electronic singer-song writer Unii.

Performers: 
Unii (JP)
Alok (HK)
Ariel (HK)

Date: Aug-17, 2014
Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: Music Room, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Lok Fu MTR Exit B)
Admission: Pay What You Want

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha
Venue Sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

About the Performers

Unii 
http://uniiunii.com/
Unii is a Japanese singer, songwriter and composer (ambient/avant-pop/electronic). She was born in Sapporo city - northern island in Japan. She has performed in Europe, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, South Korea and more countries. Her sensitive voice and soundscape induces a dream-like state. Her music is beyond this world and touches on people. Her 1st LP "new world, sea and your eyes" was released by elegantdisc Japan in 2011. In the album, she makes all tracks, mixing and recording by laptop herself. Now she is making new songs focusing on ambient/minimal style. It will be released in 2014 summer.

Alok
http://www.facebook.com/alokleung
Alok, a sound artist, musician and DJ from Hong Kong. In 2002, he set up his own record label Lona Records, and started working as a producer and sound engineer. From the end of 2002 to 2012, he released over 10 albums and E.P.. He has curated and participated in more than 200 shows and experimental events / projects in Hong Kong, Portugal, Macau and China such as AGF Live in HK (2005), Get It Louder (2007), HK & GZ Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2008)(2010), Architecture is Art Festival (2009), Peaches live in Macau (2010), Clockenflap (2012). In addition, He also gets involved in music production such as Puffy (Japan), Jeffrey Butzer (US), FM3 (China)..., soundtrack and sound design .In 2013 he formed the new Bass/Trap/Juke group "Gravity Alterstra" with Shelf-Index and currently being a member of the DJ crew "Sync Sing Sin".

Ariel
http://www.arielmusics.com/
Ariel is an independent electronic music producer currently based in Hong Kong. He played guitar in a couple of bands throughout his youth, but quickly developed a love for hip-hop and DJ-ing in college. Ariel started performing his own material in the summer of 2013 mainly at art show openings and more recently at the Clockenflap music and arts festival. His music draws influence from hip-hop, rock and various genres of electronic music. Ariel is currently finishing up a MFA in Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media.

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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.
http://www.re-records.com/

Twenty Alpha | 20ά:
20α (Twenty Alpha) focuses on the development of experimental music and film in Hong Kong. We strive to connect musicians, filmmakers, organizations, venues from local and worldwide, and share the outcome with Hong Kong audiences, especially youth. Our goal is to provide a platform for experiment through interaction and collaboration. We believe knowledge and creativity can be enhanced by deeper level of collaboration and exchange of ideas.

Program & Ticketing enquiries: rerecordshk@gmail.com
Press Inquiries: +852 2139 5230 / info@twentyalpha.org

Monday, July 07, 2014

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.24 - PATCHWORK

 
 
Patchwork of physical sound & noise, weaving into an investigative ritual of existential introspection…

Performers:
Dave Phillips (CH)
Mei Zhiyong (CN)
Olaf Hochherz (DE)

Date: Jul-17, 2014
Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: Gallery, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Lok Fu MTR Exit B)
Admission: Pay What You Want

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha
Venue Sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

Dave Phillips tour is supported by Pro Helvetia & Stadt Zürich Kultur.

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About the Performers:

Dave Phillips / dp (CH)
www.davephillips.ch
dp re/searches and ponders existences and behaviourisms humanimalistically via audio de/construction, psycho-acoustics and sonic rituals. Sound as communication in direct and primal form, a tool of metaphysics, a conscience, an unrestrained language. Sound as a means to activate primordial shared emotions otherwise hidden by civilized experience. dp's work engages, invites existentialist rumination, demands awareness, endorses sentient and environmental e/quality and encourages intervention and responibility; therapeutical aspects are acknowledged; a form of release is delivered, a liberating cleansing, a sound catharsis opposing the omnipresent reduction of existence and putting us in touch with our sentient origins as with the realities of our times - dp rings in the era of humanimal.

Sonically active for over 25 years, dp has appeared on 150+ releases and has played near to 400 concerts in 40 countries.

Mei Zhiyong (CN)
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.

Olaf Hochherz (DE)
http://hochherz.klingt.org/
Olaf Hochherz is born 1981 in Wuppertal/Germany. He improvises with self build electronic instruments and 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.

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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.
http://www.re-records.com/

Twenty Alpha | 20ά:
20α (Twenty Alpha) focuses on the development of experimental music and film in Hong Kong. We strive to connect musicians, filmmakers, organizations, venues from local and worldwide, and share the outcome with Hong Kong audiences, especially youth. Our goal is to provide a platform for experiment through interaction and collaboration. We believe knowledge and creativity can be enhanced by deeper level of collaboration and exchange of ideas.

Program & Ticketing enquiries: rerecordshk@gmail.com
Press Inquiries: +852 2139 5230 / info@twentyalpha.org


Monday, June 16, 2014

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.23 - EXTENDED PLAY




4 guitars + 4 electrified souls…a freeform improvising guitar quartet featuring four of the most unconventional guitar players in Hong Kong. Extended Play is their debut performance in celebration of their 1st EP and upcoming album. Be perpared to change the way you think about guitar works...what's more? Mike Armine of Rosetta will be performing as special guest!!

Guitar Quartet:
Naturalismo (IT)
Error: Wrong (HK)
Sherman (HK)
Sin:Ned (HK)

Special guest:
Mike Armine (Rosetta / US)

Date: Jun-28, 2014
Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: Music Room, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Lok Fu MTR Exit B)
Admission: Pay What You Want

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha
Venue Sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

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About the Performers:

Naturalismo (IT)
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. Explores minimalism with irony, always loyal to cheapness and imperfection.
http://www.monstresparexces.com/

Error: Wrong (HK)
Error: Wrong is a Hong Kong based guitarist / electronic musician / improvisor. A guitarist and electronic musician who focuses on guitar improvisation and sound manipulation with laptop to fragmentize and alter the instruments' original sound.
https://soundcloud.com/errorwrong/

Sherman (HK)
Sherman plays electric guitar and effect pedals. His debut solo work “Politely We Grow Old” was released by Lona Records in 2006. He is also founding member of the experimental duo Yellow Crystal.
https://myspace.com/shermanho/

Sin:Ned (HK)
Also known as Dennis Wong / Wong Chung-fai. Experimentalist and improviser. Co-founder of Re-Records, and founding member of experimental outfits such as No One Pulse, After Doom and adeō.
http://www.re-records.com/people/sin-ned/

Mike Armine (Rosetta / US)
Mike Armine is a dark ambient, drone and noise musician from Philadelphia, United States. He has also known by membership and musical action as vocalist and sound manipulator of acts as Rosetta, Rise of Because, Zodiak and Temet Nosce.

http://mikearmine.bandcamp.com/

Wednesday, June 04, 2014

iPad Music & Field Recordings Workshop @ Macau Cultural Centre

Enroll now!! Deadline: June-12, 2014!!

iPad Musicians Workshop

今時今日製作音樂何需複雜且昂貴的器材音樂發燒友只需iPad平板電腦入型入格的新音樂就可以一手掌握集創作、錄製及編輯於一身的iPad配合專業軟件即可創作各種音效和合成音軌輕鬆方便製作屬於自己的型格音樂任何空間也能是你的音樂工作室為玩音樂增添無限樂趣。
 
導師
黃仲輝是以Sin:Ned名義創作的即興實驗及噪音演奏家前樂評人同時亦是No One PulseAfter Doom等樂團的核心成員。他是香港實驗音樂廠牌Re-Records的創辦人之一及現任聲音藝術團體「聲音掏腰包」的顧問之一。
 
客席導師梁偉樂(Alok )駱廣豪(Timmy Lok)
 
Na era digital, já não é necessário recorrer a equipamentos complexos e dispendiosos para criar música. Qualquer artista pode hoje dar largas à imaginação e criar novas sonoridades apenas utilizando um iPad! Dennis Wong, aclamado músico experimental de Hong Kong, irá demonstrar aos participantes como utilizar o iPad e software profissional para criar música cool e original.
 
In this digital era, there is no need for complex and expensive equipment to make music. Now, with only an iPad, music fans can produce new musical sounds in whatever style, just by a click! Dennis Wong, renowned Hong Kong experimental musician, will show participants how to use an iPad and professional musical software to make personalized cool and trendy music.
 
對象 / Público-alvo / Target16歲或以上有興趣之人士 / Maiores de 16 anos / Aged 16 and above
日期 / Data / Date29.06 – 13.07          星期日 / Dom / Sun       10:00 – 12:00
人數 / Nº de participantes / No. of participants20
授課語言 / Idioma / Language粵語 / Cantonense / Cantonese
總時數 / Total de horas / Total hours6
費用 / Inscrição / Fee$400

Enroll here:

http://www.ccm.gov.mo/programme/prog14/summerworkshop/ipadmusicians_y.htm

Field Recordings Workshop

咖啡機的聲音、人潮的喧嘩聲、狂風的怒吼也可變成音樂嗎?當然可以!「實地錄音」為敢於突破的朋友打開音樂創作一扇廣闊之門。只要你想像到的,任何日常生活瑣碎的聲音都可以製作成音效或融入樂曲中,讓創作更容易激發聯想,引起聆聽者的共鳴。在整個創作過程中,錄音的技術與學問遠比設備重要,因此工作坊解構實地錄音的基礎知識,學員更有機會親身捐窿捐罅來收集各種聲音!
 
導師
黃仲輝是以Sin:Ned名義創作的即興實驗及噪音演奏家前樂評人同時亦是No One PulseAfter Doom等樂團的核心成員。他是香港實驗音樂廠牌Re-Records的創辦人之一及現任聲音藝術團體「聲音掏腰包」的顧問之一。
 
客席導師巢建威(KWC)陳銘揚(Eric Chan)
 
Dando asas à imaginação, este workshop demonstra como é possível criar excertos musicais com base em sons do quotidiano – e como estes podem até ser transformados em composições musicais. Dennis Wong, aclamado músico experimental de Hong Kong, irá explicar os conceitos básicos de gravação de sons-ambiente, levando os participantes à caça de sons pela cidade.
 
Using bold creative imagination, this workshop shows and shares how anyone can make useful and amazing acoustics from ordinary daily life sounds – and how to fuse them into a musical piece. Renowned Hong Kong experimental musician Dennis Wong will introduce the basics of ‘field recording’ taking participants on field trips to collect samples around the city.
對象 / Público-alvo / Target16歲或以上有興趣之人士 / Maiores de 16 anos / Aged 16 and above
日期 / Data / Date
29.06 – 20.07          逢星期日 / Dom / Sun       14:30 – 16:30 
 
人數 / Nº de Participantes / No. of participants20
授課語言 / Idioma / Language粵語 / Cantonense / Cantonese
總時數 / Total de horas / Total hours8
費用 / Inscrição / Fee$800
 
報名者需於報名同時遞交個人簡歷。
CV deve de ser entregue juntamente com a ficha de inscrição.
Resume must be submitted with the application form.
 
凡出席率達百分之八十或以上者可獲頒發出席證書。 / Será atribuído um certificado de participação a quem assistir a 80% das aulas. / A certificate of attendance will be given to participants attending 80% of classes.
Enroll here:
 

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.22 - VISION QUEST


A vision quest for live electronic music and real-time generated moving images.

Performers:
Timmy Lok (HK)...
Alain Chiu (HK)
Yasunobu Zaizen (JP)

Live Visuals:
Dennis Wong (HK)

Date: Jun-14, 2014
Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: Music Room, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Lok Fu MTR Exit B)
Admission: Pay What You Want

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha
Venue Sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

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About the Performers:

Timmy Lok (HK)
Timmy Lok has been making electronic music since 1982, and is the founding member of electronic units Minimal, Juno and S.J. Mojo. As an electronic musician, he had performed in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China, and as the supporting act for The Orb in Hong Kong. He had collaborated with a lot of musicians such as Jon Rose, and remixed for artists such as Moloko. Since 1989, he had taken part in over 20 compilations including: Eternal Blue Extreme: An Asian Tribute To Derek Jarman (Somnus, Canada 1994); Turntable Solos (compiled by Otomo Yoshihide / Amoebic Japan, 1999); An Anthology Of Chinese Experimental Music 1992-2008 (Sub Rosa Belgium, 2009); Tribute To FM3: Buddha Machine 4 Vol.1 (Lona Records Hong Kong, 2013).

As a composer, he makes theme music and soundtracks for computer games and multimedia projects since 1994. He also composed and arranged music for local pop artists such as Jan Lamb.

In 2013, he formed a new experimental electronic music duo, Self-Ox Randomness, with post-rock guitarist Eddie Hui, and started to produce and host a radio programme "EC Music Lecture" for DAB31, RTHK focusing on electronic music culture, gears and technology.
http://soundcloud.com/timmy-lok

Alain Chiu (HK)
An active composer in the music and multimedia scene of Hong Kong, Alain Chiu's music has been performed in concert halls and festivals throughout the world.

Chiu's music displays a kaleidoscope of influences from Takemitsu, Cage, Ades and Bach to mainstream music like King Crimson, the Beatles, Laurie Anderson and Bill Evans. The combination of insights he gained as a modern day flâneur and his multi-cultural musical influences results in what he calls an "urban existentialist" approach to classical music.

Along with choreographer Max Lee and dramaturge Frankie Mcnugget, Chiu is one of the creators of the experimental theatre group Trilateral which founded in 2013. Trilateral performed at 2013 People’s Fringe Festival as well as DETOUR 2013.
http://alainchiu.com/

Yasunobu Zaizen 財前康宣 (JP)
A Japanese electronic musician formerly known as yy_zz. He had performed for event such as “Unseen”, “2008 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture”, “10 Concert in Hong Kong”…etc. His works had been released by Niko label in Japan. Zaizen is now living and working in China.

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About organizers:

Re-Records
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.
http://www.re-records.com/

Twenty Alpha | 20ά:
20α (Twenty Alpha) focuses on the development of experimental music and film in Hong Kong. We strive to connect musicians, filmmakers, organizations, venues from local and worldwide, and share the outcome with Hong Kong audiences, especially youth. Our goal is to provide a platform for experiment through interaction and collaboration. We believe knowledge and creativity can be enhanced by deeper level of collaboration and exchange of ideas.

Program & Ticketing enquiries: rerecordshk@gmail.com
Press Inquiries: +852 2139 5230 / info@twentyalpha.org

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

SUBLIMINAL LOUNGE #1 - World Premiere of BISING + Live Performance by Adythia Utama


Date and Time: May-24, 2014 at 8:30 PM
Venue: Tong Saam, 2/F, 716 Shanghai Street, Prince Edward, Kowloon (near Bute Street)
Admission: Pay What You Want

Movie Section: BISING (2014)
Director : Adythia Utama (Indonesia)
Duration: 70 minutes
Language: Bahasa Indonesia (English subtitles)
Movie trailer: https://vimeo.com/27034586

Synopsis: BISING is a documentary by Adythia Utama about people who make noise music in Indonesia. Indonesian music scene is very alive since 90's, excluding noise, and the majority of people do not know that there is also noise scene in Indonesia. In 2006, some people started taking attention when Danif from Kalimayat showed up in Indonesian music forum with his harsh noise style. The following is a list of the Indonesian noise artists who have appeared in the movie: Aneka Digital Safari, Sodadosa, Argot, Kalimayat, The Crowded Room, Sangsaka Worship, Shoah, terror/incognita, Duto Hardono (Hasana Press) and A Stone A.

About the Director/Performer: Adythia Utama was born in Ottawa at 10th December 1986. He graduated in 2010 with Bachelor of Art Degree from Jakarta Institute of the Arts Concentrating in Documentary Film Directing. He has worked as a Videographer at O Channel TV Station in 2008 and as a journalist/feature documentary at SCTV News Program in 2009. He also has worked at some big screen movies such as “Generasi Biru (2009)”, “Mama Cake (2012)”, and “Rayya, Cahaya Di Atas Cahaya (2012)”. Also served as the head of documentation of the idol group JKT48 during 2011-early 2014. Utama lives and works as a freelancer in Indonesia.

About Subliminal Lounge
Subliminal Lounge is a new series of movie screening and live performance event initiated by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha. Our aspiration is to create an interactive space to look into movie, moving image and live music in a new perspective.

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About organizers:

Re-Records
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.
http://www.re-records.com/

Twenty Alpha | 20ά:
20α (Twenty Alpha) focuses on the development of experimental music and film in Hong Kong. We strive to connect musicians, filmmakers, organizations, venues from local and worldwide, and share the outcome with Hong Kong audiences, especially youth. Our goal is to provide a platform for experiment through interaction and collaboration. We believe knowledge and creativity can be enhanced by deeper level of collaboration and exchange of ideas.

Program & Ticketing enquiries: rerecordshk@gmail.com
Press Inquiries: +852 2139 5230 / info@twentyalpha.org

Jointly presented by Re-Records and Twenty Alpha
Supported by Tong Saam

Saturday, May 03, 2014

LACKING SOUND FEST. # SPECIAL 2014『域外音』# 01「香港噪域」


LACKING SOUND FEST. # SPECIAL
2014『域外音』# 01「香港噪域」:
日期 date:2014/ 05/31
場地 venue : Changee 噪咖

失聲祭最新策劃獨立單元『域外音』場號#01 _「香港噪域」...
即將於5/31號登場!!!!!

本次將邀請到通過田野錄音以及裝置等形式, 探索聲音的可能性, 從而嘗試建立對聲音的哲理與語法, 將聲音看待為慾望的投射的香港聲音藝術家Edwin Lo (羅潤庭) ; 獲得首屆彭博(Bloomberg)新一代藝術家獎,活躍於音樂廳以外的藝廊、博物館、劇場等各類藝術場域的Samson Young (楊嘉輝) ; 香港樂評人、實驗電子及聲音創作人,獨立廠牌運營者Sin:Ned (黃仲輝) 參與演出。

同時,將於當天下午邀請藝術家們進行一場關於:「香港聲音音景_過去、現在與未來」講座,歡迎大家一同參與。

#0.01. SoundArt TALK時間Time : 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm (Free Entrance) @Changee 噪咖
#0.02. PERFORMANCE時間Time : 7:00 pm – 21:30 pm (Entrance Fee︱NT$.300) @Changee 噪咖

NOISE to SIGNAL 0.21: ( )



Date: May-16, 2014
Time: 8:30 PM
Venue: Music Room, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity...
Address: 135 Junction Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong (Lok Fu MTR Exit B)
Admission: Pay What You Want

Performers:
Fritz Welch (US)
Sherman (HK)
Sin:Ned (HK)

Jointly presented by Re-Records & Twenty Alpha
Venue Sponsor: HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity

About the performers:

Fritz Welch (US)
http://www.humansacrifice.net/
Fritz Welch is a drummer, percussionist and vocalist with a shadow practice in visual endurance investigation. He is determined to stretch the escalator of possibilities into the bloodshot eye of results. He currently plays with FvRTvR (a duo with Guido Henneböhl), With Lumps (a duo with Neil Davidson) and the post-conceptual anti-band Asparagus Piss Raindrop. He was a member of the now defunct and perpetually grim Peeesseye. Welch has played in various improvising contexts with Tamio Shiraishi, Tony Conrad, Maya Dunietz, Dylan Nyoukis, Michael Vorfeld, John Butcher and many others. A longtime Brooklynite of Texas origins, he is now pleased to be based in Glasgow.
http://www.humansacrifice.net/

Sherman (HK)
Sherman plays electric guitar and effect pedals. His debut solo work “Politely We Grow Old” was released by Lona Records in 2006. He is also founding member of the experimental duo Yellow Crystal.
https://myspace.com/shermanho

Sin:Ned (HK)
Also known as Dennis Wong / Wong Chung-fai. Experimentalist and improviser. Co-founder of Re-Records, and founding member of experimental outfits such as No One Pulse, After Doom and adeo.
http://www.re-records.com/people/sin-ned/

Program & Ticketing enquiries: rerecordshk@gmail.com
Press Inquiries: +852 2139 5230 / info@twentyalpha.org