Thursday, May 14, 2009

ChoP: WEF on tour in China



Tour Schedule:

2 June 21:00: 深圳 (Shenzhen), 凉茶铺 (Liangcha Shop) - 40RMB
3 June 21:00: 佛山 (Foshan), 元丽和画廊 (Niliho Gallery) - 30RMB
5 June 21:00: 长沙 (Changsha), Freedom House - 30RMB
6 June 21:00: 武汉(Wuhan), Vox Club - 30RMB
9 June 21:00: 广州 (Guangzhou), 乒乓艺术空间 (Ping Pong Art Space) - 40RMB
10 June 21:00: 佛山 (Foshan), 梁园 (Liang Garden)
12 June 21:00: 香港(Hong Kong), Videotage - 100HK$

Artists:

Shenzhen: Eta Carinae+Minoo+Nejmano+Zen Lu+KLC_NIR+Sin:Ned
Foshan: Eta Carinae+Minoo+Nejmano+Zen Lu+Dickson Dee+KLC_NIR+Liang Guojian
Changsha: Eta Carinae+Minoo+Nejmano+Zen Lu+KLC_NIR
Wuhan: Eta Carinae+Minoo+Nejmano+Zen Lu+KLC_NIR
Guangzhou: Eta Carinae+Minoo+Nejmano+Zen Lu+KLC_NIR+Dickson Dee
Hong Kong: Eta Carinae+Minoo+Nejmano+Zen Lu+KLC_NIR+Sin:Ned

For more details:


Tour Blog:

Monday, May 11, 2009

RED_shift: A Sound Exhibition & Performance for the Red Compilation



Jointly presented by Lona Records and Re-Records, RED_shift is an exhibition and live experimental sound performance for the 3-CD compilation Red.

For this special event, guest artists are invited to join forces with Lona artists featured in the Red compilation for a opening live performance. Four improvisation trio/duo, Rudra, Reductive Electrodynamics, Sixth Ray and M are formed especially for this event. These super groups, which might not be seen again on stage after this event, will be performing on the opening of RED_shift, to explore a whole new dimension of experimental avant-garde.

During the week of RED_shift, there will be sound installation by Yan Jun and No One Pulse at the venue. In addition to Lona Records’ standard releases, limited edition CD, artworks and sound devices will also be available for auction.

RED_shift是Lona Records及Re-Records為3-CD合輯Red首發而舉行的一次展覧及聯演。

是次RED_shift展覧中,除了顏峻及No One Pulse的聲音裝置外,還會展示出一系列由各Lona Records聲音藝術家、實驗樂家親手製作的超限量特別版CD、藝術品及實驗聲音工具,而部份更在展覧期間接及競投拍賣。當然,少不了的還有Lona Records的標準出品及Red合輯。

同時,Lona Records更請來嘉賓藝術家與Red合輯的藝術家組成Rudra, Reductive Electrodynamics, Sixth Ray and M四隊超級即興樂團,為Red_shift作開幕首演,跨躍實驗電聲與迷幻噪音之間,重新構想大中華先鋒音樂的可能性。這四個三重奏及二重奏之組合陣容均從未公開亮相演出,是次演出亦很可能只此一次,可一不可再。

Opening Performance開幕式: May-16 8:00 PM

Admission: RMB50

Artists:

Rudra (Alok / Wilson / Sin:Ned)
Reductive Electrodynamics (ZenLu / Alok)
Sixth Ray (Lin Zhiying / KLC_NIR / Wilson Tsang)
M (Yan Jun / Sin:Ned)

Exhibition展覧: May-16 to May-22

Admission: Free

Artists: Yan Jun, Alok, Wilson Tsang, No One Pulse, KWC, Sin:Ned

Venue 場地: Liangcha Shop (凉茶铺)

Address 地址: F3 Block,Enping Road,Oversea Chinese Town, Shenzhen (深圳市南山区恩平街华侨城创意文化园OCT-LOFT F3栋, LSD对面)

Presented by Lona Records & Re-Records

Proudly supported by Liangcha Shop, We Play! Records & Neo Sound


About Red

Red is the first compilation of Lona Records' Color Series.
Red is a massive 3-CD compilation (including 28 pages A5 size booklet) that goes beyond genre and pigeon holes. In Red, Lona Records invited 16 pioneering Chinese sound artists and musicians from China, Hong Kong and overseas to present their interpretation on the color red.

The result is a radical and eclectic mix of experimental sounds, extreme noises, and atmospheric instrumentations.

RED是香港獨立音樂廠牌Lona Records的首張合輯。

十六位分別來自香港、深圳、桂林、成都、杭洲、上海、北京以至英國倫敦等地的藝術家及創作單位,應邀對紅這種顏色從最純粹的聲音角度作出詮釋。

超越形式與品類的框架與約制,超越理性與邏輯,從電音到噪音,從極微氛圍前衛主義以至無法分類的形色聲態,跡近瘋狂的一種姿態,RED以強大的陣容及超重量級的三CD陣式,結集近最具代表性的華人實驗藝術家之新作及未發表作品,揭示出大中華先鋒音樂的最尖端面貌。

參與RED合輯之藝術家包括:

Ibid (A. Duncan + Xper.Xr) (倫敦) / 顏峻 (北京) / Torturing Nurse (上海) / 李劍鴻 (杭洲) / 王長存 (杭洲) / 白天 (成都) / Ronez (桂林) / ZenLu (深圳) / Alok (香港) / Fathmount (香港) / KWC (香港) / No One Pulse (香港) / Sin:Ned (香港) / VSOP (香港) / Wilson Tsang (香港) / 檢德大厦(香港)

About Lona Records

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

In December 2005, we launched a series of 3" CDR singles as an attempt to explore the aesthetic boundaries of experimental sound. Each 3" CDR or 3" DVDR features musical/multi-media works by independent artists from across the world, including the U.K., U.S., Italy, Sweden, mainland China, and Hong Kong etc. Each volume is released in a limited numbered edition of 50. From droning to clicks n' cuts, from glitch to avant-garde, from ambient to extreme noise, we venture off the beaten path and bring all sorts of exciting sounds to a worldwide audience.

Alongside the 3" series we also release CDs in larger size and quantity, which include the official album Hou Guan Yin of FM3 + Dou Wei from Beijing , the first official album She Traded Her Leg of Jeffrey Bützer from the United States, and the debut EP and album of The Yours from Hong Kong.

成立於2003年的獨立音樂廠牌Lona Records,由資深獨立音樂人Alok主理,一直旗幟鮮明地專注於實驗/另類音樂的製作及發行。自2005年底,Lona Records開展了一個3吋singles的系列,四出招惹世界各地的實驗音樂人,讓他們發表自己的實驗成果。在短短一年間,這系列的出品已累積至20多張,合作過的音樂人來自五湖四海,包括英國、美國、意大利、瑞典、挪威、中國大陸等,當然也少不了來自香港本地的朋友。在3吋系列以外,亦出版了多張官方專輯,包括FM3和竇唯的《后觀音》、Jeffrey Bützer的《She Traded Her Leg》和The Yours的首張EP《Abraham》。

About Re-Records

Re-Records is a "record label" project 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.

Other than standard releases, our catalogue includes specialized series such as Doc (Documentary/Documents), On (On Location) and 185 (3" CD-R).

Re-Records是香港實驗電聲二人組No One Pulse的一個廠牌項目。除了No One Pulse成員的作品及相關藝術項目外,Re的目錄更包括其他藝術家的作品,及Doc (Documentary/Documents)、On (On Location) 及185 (三吋CD-R) 等不同的專門系列。

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

水陸觀音 & RED

三月三十一曰將會在北京的水陸觀音演出,同場演出的還有成都的李帶果。是次水陸觀音乃由李劍鴻作客策劃。

籌備多時的三CD合輯RED將會在三月面世,於四月有一連串活動,詳情如下:


Exhibition
Date: 1 – 15 , April, 2009
Venue: Phonograph
Address: 2 Austin Ave, Tsim Sha Tsui, HK
Visuals: domting
Painting and Installation: Wilson Tsang

DJ SET 1
Date: 3, April, 2009
Time: 9 – 11 PM
Price: FREE
DJ: Alok / Nerve

DJ SET 2
Date: 10, April, 2009
Time: 9 – 11 PM
Price: FREE
DJ: iii Plays Red (Live Set) / domting

Live Concert
Date: 11, April, 2009
Time: 8 – 11 PM
Price:
HKD 80 (including 1 drink)
HKD 120 (including 1 drink + RED 3-CD compilation)
Artists: Alok / KWC / Nerve / No One Pulse / Sin:Ned / Wilson Tsang

Presented by Lona Records & Para/Site

Monday, February 23, 2009

Review of Ghost Feeding Vessel & LINGK

Two Nice reviews from Heathen Harvest:

Sin:Ned / Nerve - Ghost Feeding Vessel

This is a split release between Sin:Ned and Nerve.

This split album from Hong Kong locals Sin:Ned and Nerve is a recorded performance on the eve of the Chinese Ghost Festival as accompaniment to a multimedia installation of video projection by two other artists at the Para/Site Art Space. It is a spatially haunting piece endemic to both region and intention – discernibly Asian and noticeably supernal.

The quality of the single track that sheds skin and phantasmagoria over a little less than forty minutes is to be commended for a live recording, the electronics so pristine they finely shave away all low-fi or hazed excesses yet despite the digital crystallisation is not frigid.

Intended to serve as a bridge those in this world and those in the next, ‘Ghost Feeding Vessel’ is thankfully not a dolorous drone of decay and depression for it is far too electric and chaotic. Bell chimes limn the air like the fragrance of jasmine, delicate and almost imperceptible; flutes flit and dart in Asian scale tones down to their quarters as swift as the smallest of winged birds; gongs explode showers of golden dust; even the more electronic oscillating susurrations are treated with a light deftness and inveigle the senses. Sounds coalesce and crescendo in attempt to force embrasure.

Several movements collate ‘Ghost Feeding Vessel’ with the middle section less ghostly than the lead-in as electronic glitches patter little rhythms with the sampled noise of dust. The last movement, however, seems to step away from the realms of spirits and becomes mired in an urban maelstrom of squalling frequencies and rapid and uncontrolled leaps of percussion. This detraction seems to close more than open the aperture into the formless.

The album is a limited affair, one-hundred CDr copies are presented better than the average slap-together, with a black silk-screen coated disc (quite a rarity for a CDr) and heavy gloss card in full colour. An intriguing symmetrical icon burns an optical illusion with lens flare that has your pupils dilating. (symbolique)

http://www.HeathenHarvest.com/article.php?story=20090209184057101


No One Pulse - LINGK

The Hong Kong duo of Wong Chung-fai (Sin:ned, Music Colony Bi-Weekly Magazine) and Chau Kin-wai (Sleepatwork) recording as No One Pulse, specialise in conceptually minimalistic, but broadly-painted, soundscapes, utilising electronic blips, hums and squeaks. In their own terms these are micro-sound experiments and “freeform” electronics, collated and built from both studio-based and live recordings. There are hints of a certain formalism to some of the microstructural minutiae of the compositions, but above and beyond that the pair introduce elements of random interpolations and chaotic improvisation. This is not to imply any Stockhausen-style atonality is present – rather, in much the same way that matter behaves in the real world, structures are allowed to emerge out of the randomicity without attempting to confine the music into any theoretical straitjacket. What we have then could be said to mimic the natural processes, albeit on a smaller scale, that form the bedrock of material existence around us.

I have to advise that I use the word minimal very loosely here – the sounds employed are in essence very few in number, but stack themselves up in successive layers to produce a convoluted complexity. Random concatenations, microscopic detonations and explosions, sheets of accelerated particles, high-energy sonic excitations, and hums, clicks and squeals – these are the fundamental particles that surge and flow, that collide and split, and form the basis of No One Pulse’s musical discourse. It’s never loud or harsh, although sometimes the drones and squeals have a habit of drilling into the head, just like some neutrino ploughing through miles of rock.

Indeed, the sounds on here remind me very much of the ‘music of the spheres’, created through both macro and micro-scale processes, picked up and recorded by radio astronomers – the constant flux of creation caught in spectral sound. It’s like the pair have journeyed through the heart of star-fields and galactic nurseries, sailed into vast dust-clouds of energetic radioactivity or flown past extra-solar planetary systems, all the while pointing sensitive antennae at them and recorded the fluttering, the whistling, the crackling, the humming and the heartbeats of black holes and galaxies hidden in the airlessness of space. And in between the interstices of sound there is space, eternal light-years of hyperactive nothingness, bristling with unseen and unfelt energies. Above all one gets the impression, the certain feeling in fact, of vast limitless expanses, where the stars and galaxies are on the same scale to the universe as atoms and subatomic particles are to our human comprehension. Little islands of coagulated matter clump together here and there, accreting and spinning, before amassing sufficient to form new systems and worlds.

Simultaneously, one can also envisage a journey through the particle-rich quantum world, which in its own way can be considered as just another universe itself, albeit compacted into an infinitesimally small space, but still an analogue of the bigger one. Therefore I wouldn’t be surprised, should we develop sensitive enough instruments, that we detect a similar subatomic symphony, equally as energetic and equally as noisy. And No One Pulse’s entirely naturalistic soundtrack can just be as fittingly applied to that scale as it can to its opposite. In that sense, it’s truly a work that encompasses the entire spectrum of creation in its scope.

It would be true to say, then, that experimental music has not only a global reach, but in this particular case can actually encompass whole worlds, from the small to the galactic. LINGK contains it all, condensing the whole spectrum into a palatable form, while simultaneously moulding it into a work of abstract beauty. The near-lightspeed blasts of particles no human eye could possibly ever see, the lightyears-long tendrils of starstuff left over from supernovae or the massive columns of gas and dust serving as the wombs of new stars; who would have thought that you could have shoehorned that lot onto a disc of plastic only 5” in diameter. (S:M:J63)

http://www.HeathenHarvest.com/article.php?story=20081010074849412

Friday, February 06, 2009

Performance Footage

Uploaded a few excerpts from previous perfomance to YouTube....








































Monday, December 22, 2008

iii Plays Canto-Pop on Dec-27



iii is a new electronic outfit who works on the idea of genres bending. We play electronic music that mixes sampled beats and free form noise. On stage, members of iii sample each other and re-sample themselves. We will be playing Canto-Pop in our debut performance on Dec-27 at Backstage. Depending on the occasion, one might also spot us playing something else other than Canto-Pop.



Show Title: 眾聲平等 Everybody Sounds
7 indie bands: A Roller Control / Chochumo / iii / Violent Jokes / Laura Palmer / Modern Children / The Yours
Venue: Backstage (1/F, 52-54 Wellington Street, Central)
Date: Dec-27, 2008
Time: 10:00 pm to 2:30 am
Price: HKD100
Organised by Lona Records
Supported by Backstage

Monday, October 06, 2008

Blind Man and the Sun 日喻



Improvised live soundtracks performed in response to video works from chinese and international artists

来自中国与国际艺术家的“即兴音乐/声音艺术与影像”专场

Sunday 19 October 2008
2008年10月19日 星期日

7pm - 9pm

FREE Ticket
免费入场

Lecture Theatre, He Xiangning Museum
何香凝美术馆报告厅

Add: Overseas Chinese Town, Shennan Thoroughfare, Nanshan District,Shenzhen
深圳市南山区深南路华侨城

Metro: Hua Qiao Cheng Station (Exit C)
地铁站:华侨城地铁站C出口

Improvised Live Performances by:
现场音乐/声音艺术家:

Sin:Ned (HK)
Zen Lu & KLC_NIR (CH)
Justice Yeldham (AUS)

Video Works by:
影像部分:

Susanne Burner (DE)
Huang Xiaopeng (CH)
Deer Fang (CH/USA)

Media Sponsor:Musiac Radio of Shenzhen Media Group
媒体主办:深圳广播电影电视集团音乐频率FM97.1

Warning: the performances will be extreme, not suitable for children.,Please be prompt.
注意事项:演出不适宜12岁以下孩子观看

http://neosound.blogbus.com/

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=83505315050

Saturday, September 27, 2008

中國與波蘭聲音藝術的第三度交鋒



ChoP是一個由深圳電音藝術家ZenLu發起的跨國交流項目,每輯均邀請一位中國藝術家及一位波蘭藝術家合作。第一、二集的中國代表分別有ZenLu及華人實驗音樂先鋒Dickson Dee,而我則應邀參與第三集,與波蘭電子樂家Minoo作遙距合作。

Improvision的七首純音樂作品極富層次感,也特別強調即興性,調混著幻變的躁音及詭異的律韻。Minoo的演奏力及音樂感超強。Yin John及Wingse (還記得她倆在Anima的演出嗎?) 獻聲相助,再加上Alok幾能點石成金的Mastering,Improvision是一輯性格鮮烈的聲響交鋒演練。

ChoP vol.3-Improvision
Sin:Ned(Hong Kong)+Minoo(Poland)

Track List:
1. Demons in Ion
2. Dimension On
3. Dis-Neon in Om
4. Dines in Mono
5. Mind Sine Noon
6. Mind Noise On
7. Dimension No

WPCD005
P+C 2008 We Play!Records




All tracks composed and performed by Wong Chung-fai (Sin:Ned) & Pawel Pruski (Minoo)

Track 7 contains sonic elements by Yin John and Wingse

Recorded in Hong Kong & Poland, Feb – Jul 2008

Mastered by Alok at bitMap, Hong Kong, Aug 2008

Designed by Hei Lee at Altscape Creative

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Marc Behrens Concert in Hong Kong



Marc Behrens Concert in Hong Kong (surround sound set)
Opening guest : Sin:Ned (HK)

Ticket Price: HKD$150 [AT DOOR ONLY]
Venue: Videotage
Date: 10 Sept 2008
Door Open: 8:00p.m.
Organized by White Noise
equipment supported by Videotage
Informations : White NoiseTel : 25910499 // whitenoise@netvigator.com
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=24934741308

Marc Behrens Bio
Born in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1970.Marc Behrens lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, since 1991, during 2003 also in Grimacco/UD, Italy. He studied Communication and Product Design and has always been present in more than one artistic area at the time.

After beginning his musical studies in experimental jazz and rock groups in the late 1980s and pursuing a series of music releases, acoustic feedback recordings, and multimedia works throughout the 1990s, today Behrens is perhaps best classed as a sound artist, working across performance, installation, and recorded media (audio and video). He also creates photographic works and CD sleeve design.

Behrens has performed and exhibited extensively across Europe, the Middle East, North America, and East Asia. Collaborations with Achim Wollscheid, Bernhard Gunter, Francisco Lopez, Jeremy Bernstein, Nikolaus Heyduck, Paulo Raposo, among others.

He is a member of the Frankfurt Association for Contemporary Music (FGNM), the German Association for Electroacoustic Music (DEGEM), subscriber to the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF), and a citizen of The Kingdoms of Elgaland~Vargaland. 2003–2007 he was co-director of the Portuguese label Sirr.

Marc Behrens is a lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts, Saarbrucken, Germany and the University of Applied Arts Darmstadt-Dieburg, Germany.

Monday, August 25, 2008

《房間》與聲境

《房間》與聲境是李智良新書《房間》的一個跨媒界的藝術項目...

關乎城市的病態,更關乎承載此種病態的「城市病體」。

「城市」無孔不入,連一個人在自己的房間中最私密的時光、最幽微婉轉的情意,亦必得劃進條件與法理的管轄,因為看守自己的人正是囚犯自己。如是,城市中、房間中,我們聽見甚麼?聽不見甚麼?

以《房間》為題,幾位獨立音樂人與聲音藝術家(包括麥海珊、Sin:Ned、Ahshun、 Beatrix Pang、Yammie Chan及Wesley Tang 等)將在城市各處場景收錄、採集環境音效,進行創作與挪移,藉聲音穿透,作跨藝術形式的回應。

《房間》的主頁: http://oblivion1938.com/room

《房間》與聲境的連結: http://oblivion1938.com/room/soundscapes.htm