Electroxacoustic: Live Sound & Vision

Jointly presented by Strategic Sounds & Re-Records.

A presentation on live Electronic x Acoustic x Visual by ~1escV? (France), Fritz Welch (USA) and WYXMM (Singapore), with special supporting guest PAL PAL (Hong Kong).

Date: May-19

Time: 8:00 PM

Venue: Strategic Sounds

Address: Workshop E, 10/F, High Win Factory building, 47 Hoi Yuen Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
觀塘開源道47號凱源工業大廈10樓E室

Admission Fee
$120 (At door)

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About the artists

~1escV? & WYXMM
http://www.unescargotvide.eu/
http://soundcloud.com/wyxmm

Across this sound and live drawing performance, WYXMM (sound artist) and ~1escV? (sound and visual artist) would like to mix their both creative universes in order to compose a kind of sensitive travel to the audience.

Using soundscape, electronic melodies and colorful lines, they would like to invite the viewers to construct their own narrative experience according to present imaginary tales and personal past history.

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Fritz Welch
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.

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PAL PAL
http://videotage.org.hk/wikitopia/?p=402
http://videotage.org.hk/wikitopia/?p=617

Back from Montreal PAL PAL is a sound artist and experimental musician. He collaborates with artists from various disciplines in projects involving theatre, dance, poem, sound installation, soundtrack for video and fashion event besides DJing and organizing music events and workshops. Taking part in bands like Milkteeth, The Sinister Left, Tree Phoning...etc, he performs with acoustic/electronic instruments not limiting to vintage synth, sampler and effects. His mission with [Feel Music Experimental Lab] is to promote and spread sound art, experimental and improvised music to wide open Hong Kong’s music scene, build up unique music style and find new music directions and ideas. Being as a music consultant he has been picking and mixing the best tunes for prestigious restaurants and fashion stores including Lane Crawford.

Collaborating with:
Wilson Tsang (Poem/Spoken Words)
Vinci Mok (Movement/Dance)
Enrica Ho (Video Projection)


Wilson Tsang
http://www.myspace.com/wilsontsang

Wilson first learned classical music from his mother. Other influence started with early 80's pop sound including rock, electronic and Jazz. Later he was exposed to the more alternative world of music (including John Zorn, Tom Waits as well as the disbanded local group The Box). For the last decade he explored music for various media such as dance, theatre, video art, animation and film. Between 2003 and 2009, he had released a total of 3 full length albums: STUCK IN TRAFFIC (2003); LITTLE COLD RED (2005); and WHALE SONG (2009). Recently he started focusing more on the minimalistic yet narrative roles of sound


Vinci Mok

Vinci has formed the group ‘ART WAVE’ with friends from different art fields/media to provide more regularly interactive live street art jamming /performance in public area in between 2008-2009. She is now working as a muti-media performer, Butoh artist, action/performance/live artist, a dancer for improvisation/contemporary/environmental, physical actor, improvisational vocalist/performer, action/performance artist, choreographer, director,
project curator, set/costume/sound designer, writer for script/journal/novel, film art director/costume designer, painter, singer, art tutor etc.


Enrica Ho
http://www.enricaho.com/

Enrica started to pursue her artistic endeavors after graduating from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2004 with a BSc (Hons) in Construction Economic and Management. In 2008, she was invited by the Hong Kong Federation of Youth Groups to participate in the “You Are What You Wear” project, of which her designed products were sold in the Hong Kong Book Fair 2008. She studied photography, video and new media art at the University of Illinois in Chicago in 2010 and attained her second bachelor degree of BA (Hons) in Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong in 2011. Her art connects with the viewers and the society and combines science and art, sense and sensibility. Her work Le Montage de l'émotion was exhibited in “8+3 Art Exhibition” in K11, Hong Kong and The Solitude of Jing Hua was included in exhibition section “Narcissism, Voyeurism and The Body” in Jakarta Biennale 2011.

Videotage’s A/V Inputs presents:FROM DUSK TILL DAWN

Date: May 5, 2012 (Saturday) 21:00 till late
Venue: Videotage, Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village, 63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon
Admission: 100 HKD at the door (+1 Complimentary Drink)
Artists:
Laurent Valdès [Switzerland]
Wong Chung-fai (aka Sin:Ned) [HK]

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On May 5 we welcome Swiss video-artist and performer Laurent Valdès collaborating with Hong Kong’s own electronic music expert Wong Chung-fai, for an audio/visual event you won’t want to miss!

The night begins at 9 p.m. with drinks, snacks, and some light music. At 10 p.m. Valdès will present a stunning visual diary of his five week transcontinental journey by train from Lisbon to Hong Kong, accompanied by live music from the keen-minded idiosyncratic improviser Sin:Ned, for an unforgettable viewing experience. “From Dusk Till Dawn” will be followed by a party starting at 11 p.m.

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about Artists:

Laurent Valdès:
Video-artist and performer from Geneva, Switzerland, Laurent Valdès first studied cinema. Due to people met on his way and artistic experimentations, he finally never worked in the film industry. After his bachelor, he got naturally involved in the art performance scene, designing video installation for stage performances (theater or dance), as well as stage design and light design. It made his own artistic work evolve in between the field of video art and performing art. He collaborated also with musicians from contemporary music to experimental music and also electronic music. Since 1998, year of it’s first visit to Hong Kong, he came back several times to film and photograph different aspects of the city. This made him a particular witness of the city transformation.

Wong Chung-fai 黄仲辉:
Wong Chung-fai aka Sin:Ned, an experimentalist musician and free-lance writer from Hong Kong. He’s also co-founder of the experimental sound blog Re-Records.com, member of the electro-acoustic duo No One Pulse, and a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony Bi-Weekly). His writings have influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners in Hong Kong and China. He spends much of his time sculpting sonic materials with his laptop and various non-standard electronic gears. With his embracement of improvisation, noise, errors, chaos and randomness, he re-envisions an unorthodox sound-making process driven by intuition, bodily expression and direct experience.

He has provided creative work for concerts, sound installations, workshops, audio-visual and theatrical performances. He has performed in various events in HK and mainland China, such as Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (2007, 2009) and Notch Festival 2009 Guangzhou Station (2009). He has collaborated and performed with local and international artists.

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Presented by
Videotage + Re-Records

Chinese Cold Legs: DJ Urine / Wong Chung-fai (Sin:Ned) / Orgasm Denial

Chinese Cold Legs by Dj Urine on Mixcloud

On the Way - Visual Talking

Synth-Punk Metal: Syndrome WPW + He:roses + Shelf-Index

The hardcore spirit of Punk Rock in an Electro outfit!! Destructive introvert, urban epileptic, Syndrome WPW's electronic laptop-less show includes tragedy, neurosis and bullets. Far removed from traditional laptop electro live performances, and more akin to the tradition... of Punk and Heavy Metal, his show looks like nothing else. The audience gets punched in the face, and at the end of the performance the stage is nothing but a heap of ruins.

Also featuring He:roses, one of Hong Kong finest post-punk rocker, and Shelf-Index, our beloved mash-up specialist.

Date & Time: May-6, 2012
Venue: Strategic Sounds
Address:
Workshop E, 10/F, High Win Factory building, 47 Hoi Yuen Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
觀塘開源道47號凱源工業大廈10樓E室

Performers:
Syndrome WPW (Switzerland)
He:roses (Hong Kong)
Shelf-Index (Hong Kong)

DJ Set: DJ Hadal (Hong Kong)

Admission: $120 (at the door only)

Reservation & enquiry: rerecordshk@gmail.com

Co-organised by Re-Records & Strategic Sounds

Supported by Pro Helvetia

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ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:

Syndrome WPW
www.syndromewpw.net
Syndrome WPW comes from Lausanne, Switzerland, and has been performing since 2004 in Switzerland, France, Japan, USA, Canada, The Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. He shared the stage with musicians such as dDamage, Dat Politics, Patric Catani, Kap Bambino, Aavikko, Bodenstandig 2000, Otto Von Schirach, Keiji Haino, in places such as the Lausanne Underground Film and music Festival (LUFF), Super-Deluxe in Tokyo, Rote Fabrik in Zurich, Zorba in Paris, Zoo/Usine in Geneva, Fri-Son in Fribourg, Café-Pompier in Bordeaux.

Syndrome WPW's first album, Marek Marek's Murder, has been released by Midinette Records in October 2008. It was mixed by Shapemod, producer from Berlin and also engineer for Peaches and Planningtorock. It contains 14 tracks of electronic analog Punk-Rock, full of aggressiveness, with a strong affinity for westerns and Heavy Metal.

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He:roses
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Heroses/123402281048548
He:roses - Heroes and Roses. A spiritual, romantic, alternative band in this dried-out city.

Since the early spring of 2009, the members of Heroses have been struggling hard in expressing every tiny piece of feelings, thoughts and paradoxical daily life experiences with rhythms and sounds.

The diversity of our music backgrounds never hinders us in staying in the same line; in fact, it inspires us to explore a wide range of elements. By no means do we limit our steps to merely a few “labels”or “stereotypes”. Instead, we seek out the other side of this fascinating music world.

For the current line up, apart from our two permanent members (Ring and Lina), we also love to work with friends and other musicians who share the same music interest with us.

We embrace music as well as life. Heroses: Heroes and Roses.

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Shelf-Index
http://www.shelf-index.com/
Electronic musician, DJ and video artist from Hong Kong who produces cutting edge electronica with broken beats and sampled materials. Had offered live performance in event such as Sound in the Park, Rebuilding Haiti, Sound Friction and LIFest. He is also member of the DJ crew Are Friends Electric?

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DJ Hadal @ Strategic Sounds
http://www.facebook.com/stgsounds
In the twilight era of freedom decay, DJ Hadal strengthen his will to rebel by diving into the hadalpelagic zone of electrified beats and soak in the cold and pressurized sound wave.

NOISE TO SIGNAL 0.03: Kazuhisa Uchihashi 内橋和久 Live

Kazuhisa Uchihashi (内橋和久), founding member of the ground breaking group Altered States, and member of Otomo Yoshihide’s Ground Zero, is one the most innovative improvising guitarists of our time. Noise to Signal is prou...d to present the first solo performance of Kazuhisa Uchihashi in Hong Kong.

https://www.facebook.com/events/152252978230538/

Date: Apr-15, 2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: Strategic Sounds
Address:
Workshop E, 10/F, High Win Factory building, 47 Hoi Yuen Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong
觀塘開源道47號凱源工業大廈10樓E室

PERFORMERS
Kazuhisa Uchihashi (Guitar / Japan)
Sin:Ned (Guitar, Electronics / Hong Kong)

Tickets are at HK$120 (at the door only)
For bookings and enquiries, please contact:
rerecordshk@gmail.com

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ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Kazuhisa Uchihashi (Japan)
http://www.japanimprov.com/kuchihashi/index.html
Kazuhisa Uchihashi was born in Osaka in 1959. He started playing guitar at the age of 12, and played in folk and rock bands in junior high and high school. While a student at Osaka University of Foreign Languages, he learned jazz technique and started playing in clubs and studios. Since about 1983 he has actively developed music centered on free improvisation, and expanded the possibilities of the electric guitar by innovating various sound effects.

In 1988 he joined the band the First Edition, and in 1990 formed the band Altered States. He was also a member of Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero from 1994 to 1997. Uchihashi also plays daxophone, and
in addition to his role as a free improviser, Uchihashi has been the musical director for Osaka theatregroup Ishinha, has held improvisation workshops (a project known as New Music Action) in various cities in Japan, as well as London, and has set up his own record label, Innocent Records a.k.a. Zenbei Records, had held music festival from 1996 Festival BEYOND INNOCENCE annual for eleven years.

Sin:Ned (Hong Kong)
http://sin-ned.blogspot.com/
Also know as Wong Chung-fai, an idiosyncratic improviser, sonic junkie, live-visualist, micro-curator and free-lance writer from Hong Kong. Co-founder of the experimental imprint Re-Records and member of the electro-acoustic duo No One Pulse.

Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony B-Weekly), his writings had influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners. While not writing as a pseudo-music critic elaborating his esoteric worldview, in the same idiosyncratic fashion, he spends much of his time hacking and sculpting sonic materials with his laptop and various non-standard electronic gears. With his on-going experimentation embracing improvisation, noise, errors, chaos and randomness, he has been re-visioning an unorthodox sound-making process expressed in extreme dichotomies, and driven by intuition and direct experience.

He had offered performance and creative work for concert, sound installation, workshop, audio-visual
and theatrical performance. He had taken part and performed in events such as 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 Guangzhou Station (2009), MILK+ (2010), and Whisper Music Festival (2010).

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.

For more information, please visit www.re-records.com or follow us on Facebook:

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

AV RIOT 聲影暴亂 02: ABSOLUTE TERRITORY 絶對領域

 

... As the 2nd uproar of the AV RIOT series, ABSOLUTE TERRITORY is set to mash up and re-interpret the Japanese animation classic Neon Genesis Evangelion. Juxtaposing cutting edge electronic music from four sonic improvisers of China and Hong Kong, revelation is to be conceived by those who can see the message…

PERFORMERS
ZenLu (Shenzhen)
Alok (Hong Kong)
Sin:Ned (Hong Kong)
Shelf-Index (Hong Kong)

Video: Shelf-Index
 
1 APR, 2012 (SUN) 7:30 PM
 
 Venue: Strategic Sounds
Address: 10E, High Win Factory building, 47 Hoi Yuen Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Tickets are at HK$120 (at the door only)

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

https://www.facebook.com/events/161034284013455/


ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

ZenLu
http://www.zenlu.com/
Zen Lu, experimental/electronic musician, sound artist, new media artist, founder of We Play! Records and Neo Sound new art group and events curator. He’s one of the founders of ChoP, a musical project between China and Poland. Zen Lu is also a member of N2 New Media Art Lab, working and residing in Shenzhen, PRC.
Early 2007, Zen Lu founded Shenzhen independent label ‘We Play! Records’ and organizing events with artists from all over the world as well as. Apart from these, he composing music for dramas and movies.

Zen Lu’s minute, meticulous and minimalist digital music style as well as events organized by him and his label has played a major role in bringing a new wave of art activities to Shenzhen, for which the latter has been long considered a cultural desert.

Zen Lu has been participating in the events such as:
New Vision Arts Festival (Hong Kong,China,2006),SAND Festival (Hong Kong,China,2006), Asia Europe Music Camp and Clandestino Festival (Gothenburg,Sweden,2007), Moving Closer International New Media Festival (Warsaw,Poland,2007),Chinese Sound Art in Poland project (5 cities in Poland,2007),Get It Louder Exhibition (Guangzhou,China,2007) , Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture (Shenzhen,China,2005 and 2007), SoundReach (Toronto,Canada,2009),Architecture Is Art Festival(Hong Kong,China,2009),Warsaw Electronic Festival (Warsaw,Poland,2010), ChoP on tour in Poland (4 cities in Poland 2010),Expo Shanghai (Germany Pavilion,2010),8th Shanghai Biennale (Shanghai,China,2010), ChoP Tour in Europe (Poland,Czech Republic,Germany,2011), ChoP Tour in China(2011),and more.

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Alok
http://alok.bandcamp.com/
Alok, sound artist, guitarist and bassist. In 2002, he set up his own record label Lona Records, and started working as a producer. From the end of 2002 to 2009, he released 5 albums and 5 cd singles. He has played and participated in more than 100 shows and experimental events / projects in Hong Kong and China. Phon°noir was also invited to take part in the remix album of Phon°noir, an electronica German artist.

Selected Show: International Film Festival Closing Party (2002), Mondialito Live in HK (2005), AGF Live in HK (2005), Get It Louder (2007), Emmanuel Mieville Live in HK (2007), Red / Red_Shift: A Sound Exhibition & Perfromance For The Red Compilation in HK / Shenzhen (2009), Street Music West Kowloon (2010), The Listening Room 4 (2010), Rebuilding Haiti (2010).

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Sin:Ned
http://sin-ned.blogspot.com/
Also know as Wong Chung-fai, an idiosyncratic improviser, sonic junkie, live-visualist, micro-curator and free-lance writer from Hong Kong. Co-founder of the experimental imprint Re-Records and member of the electro-acoustic duo No One Pulse.

Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony B-Weekly), his writings had influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners. While not writing as a pseudo-music critic elaborating his esoteric worldview, in the same idiosyncratic fashion, he spends much of his time hacking and sculpting sonic materials with his laptop and various non-standard electronic gears. With his on-going experimentation embracing improvisation, noise, errors, chaos and randomness, he has been re-visioning an unorthodox sound-making process expressed in extreme dichotomies, and driven by intuition and direct experience.

He had offered performance and creative work for concert, sound installation, workshop, audio-visual and theatrical performance. He had taken part and performed in events such as 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 Guangzhou Station (2009), MILK+ (2010), and Whisper Music Festival (2010).

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Shelf-Index
http://www.shelf-index.com/
Electronic musician and DJ from Hong Kong who produces cutting edge electronica with broken beats and sampled materials. Had offered live performance in event such as Sound in the Park and Rebuilding Haiti. He is also member of the DJ crew Are Friends Electric?

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ABOUT RE-RECORDS & AV RIOT 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.

AV RIOT is a new performance series of EXREME AUDIO/VISUAL mash up that incorporates a wide spectrum of experimental performing art.

For more information, please visit www.re-records.com or follow us on Facebook:

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

AV RIOT 聲影暴亂 01: CHILDREN OF THE CORN 色米兒

 

CHILDREN OF THE CORN is a radical audio/visual mayhem that mashes up porn movie elements with extreme noise improvisation. Featuring extreme noise improvisers from China and Hong Kong, CHILDREN OF THE CORN will be transforming violent wall of noise into flux of sensational riot.

PERFORMERS
The Invisible Frog and Time Machine (周沛) (Guilin)
LIN Zhiying (林志英) (Shenzhen)
Sin:Ned (黃仲輝) (Hong Kong)

Video: Shelf-Index

25 MAR, 2012 (SUN) 7:30 PM

 Venue: Strategic Sounds
Address: 10E, High Win Factory building, 47 Hoi Yuen Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Tickets are at HK$120 (at the door only)
** Aged 18+ only **

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

https://www.facebook.com/events/248351268580406/

Disclaimer: All parts of this program contain sexually-oriented adult content. Permission to enter the venue and to view the performance is strictly limited only to adults who are at least 18 years of age or older, and are voluntarily choosing to view such sexually-explicit visuals.

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

The Invisible Frog and Time Machine
The Invisible Frog and Time Machine is a new project of RONEZ, aka Zhou Pei, the pioneer of noise and experimental music in China.

Born in Guilin 1975, he started making electronica music in 1999. His works cover electronica, experimental and noise genres, and his recent works focus on the research of the application of "feedback" on experiments of sound and video. He is the founder of Doufu Records, and has collaborated with Torturing Nurse、PNF、Hetleveiker、Stimbox、Lasse Marhaug、Jazkamer、C-Drik、Anla Courtis、Zbigniew Karkowski、Brian O’Reilly、Hiroshi Hasegawa、Reiko.A on record releasing 、live performance and workshop.

In addition to his numerous CD release, he had also take part in festival and exhibition such Sally Can't Dance—China Avant Garde Music Festival (2009), 2pi Festival (2004, 2005, 2006), Awakening Battersea at China Power Station part I (2006) and Sounding Beijing Electronic Music Festival (2003).

http://www.douban.com/artist/ronez/
http://site.douban.com/TIFATM/
http://site.douban.com/doomorrow/
http://site.douban.com/ensemble/
http://www.noisemp3.com/artists/ronez
http://www.myspace.com/ronezzz

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LIN Zhiying
Born in Hainan, China, works and lives in Shenzhen. Lin zhiying has been working with sound since 2001. As a performing artist, he works with powerful signals, razor sharp sound wave and extreme noise structure. As a sound artist, since in 2005, he has been collecting sound material from everyday life, and exploring the possibilities of recording art

He had collaborated with noise maestro Zbigniew Karkowski and taken part in events such as The Third Guangzhou Triennial (2008), Mini Midi (2007), 2pi Festival (2004, 2006), Get It Louder (2005), Dashanzi Festival (2005), London Battersea Power Station sound project (2005)…etc.

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Sin:Ned
Also known as Wong Chung-fai, an idiosyncratic improviser, sonic junkie, live-visualist, micro-curator and free-lance writer from Hong Kong. Co-founder of the experimental imprint Re-Records and member of the electro-acoustic duo No One Pulse.

Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony B-Weekly), his writings had influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners. While not writing as a pseudo-music critic elaborating his esoteric worldview, in the same idiosyncratic fashion, he spends much of his time hacking and sculpting sonic materials with his laptop and various non-standard electronic gears. With his on-going experimentation embracing improvisation, noise, errors, chaos and randomness, he has been re-visioning an unorthodox sound-making process expressed in extreme dichotomies, and driven by intuition and direct experience.

He had offered performance and creative work for concert, sound installation, workshop, audio-visual and theatrical performance. He had taken part and performed in events such as 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 Guangzhou Station (2009), MILK+ (2010), and Whisper Music Festival (2010).

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

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ABOUT RE-RECORDS & AV RIOT 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.
AV RIOT is a new performance series of EXREME AUDIO/VISUAL mash up that incorporates a wide spectrum of experimental performing art.

For more information, please visit www.re-records.com or follow us on Facebook:

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

Noise to Signal 0.02: 5IVElements

As the second installment of the Noise to Signal series, 5IVElements is a dynamic quintet featuring 5 prolific sonic improvisers from Russia, Switzerland and Hong Kong. In a multi-instrumental matrix of solo, duo, trio, quartet and quintet, incorporating acoustic and elec...tronic tools, 5IVElements is an unconventional performance that defies genres and categories with risk-taking improvisational practice.

Date: Mar-17, 2012
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: Hidden Agenda
Address:
2A, Wing Fu Industrial Building, 15-17 Tai Yip Street
Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Tickets: $120 (at door only)

Performers:
Alexei Borisov (Electronics, Voice / Russia)
Olga Nosova (Drums, Voice / Russia)
Nelson Hiu (Multi-instruments / Hong Kong)
Patrick Donzé (Electronics / Switzerland)
Wong Chung-fai (Electric guitar, Electronics / Hong Kong)

Jointly presented by:
Hidden Agenda & Re-Records
http://hiddenagenda.hk/
www.re-records.com

For bookings and enquiries
Enquiry: hiddenagendahk@gmail.com
Tel : 91706073

About the performers:

Alexei Borisov (Russia)
Making music on the fringe since the underground movement ignited in Russia in the beginning 80s, Alexei Borisov has developed an impressively diverse body of work as a member of NIGHT PROSPEKT, F.R.U.I.T.S. and VOLGA, among many other projects. He is also founding member of ASTMA.

Born in Moscow on December 7, 1960, Alexei Borisov graduated the Moscow State University where he had studied History and Arts. His controversial performing career (as a guitarist) began in the

Among other Borisovs' collaborations are the joint projects with the performance-group "North" (Russia), KK Null (Japan), Jeffrey Surak (USA), Leif Ellgren (Sweden). Borisov also collaborates with the video-artist Roman Anikushin, multimedia-artists Aristarh Chernishev and Vladislav Efimov and also with Olga Subbotina, Moscow theatre director. Lately Borisov prefers solo music career. He also works as a DJ in clubs and on radio and contributed as a journalist to some Russian ("Bulldozer", "Ptjuch", "Fuzz", "Downtown", "man'Music", etc.) and foreign ("B'Mag", "Technikart") magazines and newspapers.

Olga Nosova (Russia)
Olga Nosova is a drummer, vocalist and sound artist from Russia, participating in various experimental, electronic and avantgarde projects, most notably – avantgarde/noise-punk band Motherfathers, and duo-project with Alexei Borisov (both as Borisov/Nosova and ASTMA).

Nelson Hiu (Hong Kong)
Nelson Hiu is a Hong Kong-based musician of Chinese and Japanese descent, born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Hiu studied ethno-musicology at the University of Hawaii and moved to Hong Kong in 1985. Nelson has been a founding member of many new music ensembles in Hawaii and Hong Kong, including Nuclear Tan, the Pagan Babies, Gain Dangerous Visions, the Pet Project Hawaii, Uncarved Block, CIMG (Collective Improvisational Music Group), Little Red Truck, Dancing Stone and Yihk, and has collaborated extensively with dance and theatre. His music for dance has been performed in Hawaii, Arizona, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Utah, New York City, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.

Patrick Donzé (Switzerland)
Patrick Donze was born in Switzerland. He lives and works in Hong Kong since 2005. Beside his main activity in the financial industry, he started playing electronic music and developed a passion for sound design. In 1999, he joined the collective "Dolmen Associates", a personalized and independently minded service for all aspects related to contemporary art and music management, as financial Director and also played with international avant-garde musicians.

For 6 years, the collective organized several performances of avant-garde music and contemporary visual art in symbolic spaces such as a former state penitentiary, an underground lake or dam galleries.
www.dolmen.ch

Wong Chung-fai (Hong Kong)
Also know as Sin:Ned, an idiosyncratic improviser, sonic junkie, live-visualist, micro-curator and free-lance writer from Hong Kong. Co-founder of the experimental imprint Re-Records and member of the electro-acoustic duo No One Pulse.

Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony B-Weekly), his writings had influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners. While not writing as a pseudo-music critic elaborating his esoteric worldview, in the same idiosyncratic fashion, he spends much of his time hacking and sculpting sonic materials with his laptop and various non-standard electronic gears. With his on-going experimentation embracing improvisation, noise, errors, chaos and randomness, he has been re-visioning an unorthodox sound-making process expressed in extreme dichotomies, and driven by intuition and direct experience.

He had offered performance and creative work for concert, sound installation, workshop, audio-visual and theatrical performance. He had taken part and performed in events such as 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 Guangzhou Station (2009), MILK+ (2010), and Whisper Music Festival (2010).

http://sin-ned.blogspot.com/
 

Noise to Signal 0.01: ASTMA Live in HK

Performer:
ASTMA (Alexei Borisov / Olga Nosova) (Russia)

Supporting Guests:
Sin:Ned (Hong Kong)
... Alok (Hong Kong)

Venue:
Strategic Sounds
Workshop E, 10/F, High Win Factory Building, 47 Hoi Yuen Road
Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
觀塘開源道47號凱源工業大廈10樓E室

Date: Feb-25, 2012

Time: 7:30 PM

Admission: $120 (at door only)

Co-organized by Re-Records & Strategic Sounds

Inquiry: maitreyana(at)gmail(dot)com

About ASTMA:

The duo with Olga Nosova (drummer and vocalist mostly known for her
work with Moscow fusion band "Syncopated Silence" and post-punk band "Motherfathers") is one of the latest projects of Alexei Borisov, a veteran of Russian industrial / electronic / free improvisation scene.

ASTMA’s music is noticeably very fast-developing - their mind-boggling and powerful music is already highly acclaimed among the music lovers not only in Russia, but around the world!

The collaborative project was formed in April 2009 in Moscow. Paying homage to both experimental tradition of Alexei's countless musical reincarnations and Olga's instrumental experience, the duo embraces elements of weird free-form spoken word psychedelia, live electronics, minimalism, free jazz, noise, heavy acid, electroacoustic, dub and far too many different types of acoustic torture to even bother mentioning all of them! The music is highly improvised, so naturally Borisov / Nosova is collaborating with various musicians, video-artists, dancers, performers and poets from different countries, both in live situations and in studio environment: Anton Nikkila (Finland), Dave Phillips (Switzerland), Matthieu Werchowski (France), Dora Bleu (Canada), Thomas Buckner (USA), Tom Smith (USA), Jandek (USA), Anton Mobin (France), a_spirale (Italy), Ilya Belorukov (Russia), Sergei Letov (Russia), Korhan Erel (Turkey),Oleg Kornev (Russia/France), VTOL (Russia), Mitya Fedotenko (France), Alessandro Bosetti (Italy) to name just a few.

Borisov / Nosova duo is touring extensively and taking part at different international festivals, exibitions and showcases. In 2009-2011 they performed in Russia, Turkey, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Netherlands, France, Israel, Lithuania, Ukraine, Belorussia, USA, Italy, Czech Republic....

ASTMA是一個由Olga Nosova及Alexei Borisov組成的俄羅斯二人組合。前者乃莫斯科樂團Syncopated Silence及Motherfathers的主音歌手及鼓手，而後者則是俄羅斯工業、電子、即興樂圈的中堅分子。

ASTMA於2009年四月組成於莫斯科。樂團的音樂風格多變而廣泛，包含自由形態的迷幻讀唱、現埸電音、極簡主義音樂、自由爵士樂、噪音、電聲學及雷鬼等不同元素，而且善長即興演奏，因而與不同的音樂家、錄像藝術家、舞蹈家、詩人等合作頻煩，當中包括Anton Nikkila (芬蘭), Dave Phillips (瑞士), Matthieu Werchowski (法國), Dora Bleu (加拿大), Thomas Buckner (美國), Tom Smith (美國), Jandek (美國), Anton Mobin (法國), a_spirale (意大利), Ilya Belorukov (俄羅斯), Sergei Letov (俄羅斯), Korhan Erel (土耳其),Oleg Kornev (俄羅斯/法國), VTOL (俄羅斯), Mitya Fedotenko (法國), Alessandro Bosetti (意大利)等。

自2009年開始，ASTMA經常到世界各地如美國、芬蘭、意大利、法國、土耳其、德國、波籣、荷蘭等地巡演。

是次乃ASTMA首個中國巡演。樂團將會以即興電音或自由形態搖滾為我們展示俄羅斯先鋒音樂的最新形態。

Selected discography:
net-albums:
Alexei Borisov and Olga Nosova "Istanbul Kebap" (www.top-40.org, RU)
Alexei Borisov and Olga Nosova "No No Music" (www.kroogi.com, RU)
ASTMA "Live in Providence" (www.shum.info, France)
ASTMA "there will be a McDonald's" (www.zeromoon.com, USA)
Alexei Borisov and Olga Nosova "Istanbul 2010. World cup" (www.top-40.org, RU)
Alexei Borisov and Olga Nosova "Live at Staalplaat" (www.electronikmusic.wordpress.com, UK)
ASTMA "IgE" (http://picpack.org.ua/)
ASTMA "Live in North Carolina" (http://www.mahorka.org/release/070)

CDRs:
Alexei Borisov and Olga Nosova "Selected Works" (Bornos produkt 2010)
ASTMA "there will be a McDonald's" (Zeromoon/Bornos produkt 2011)
ASTMA "Bornos Chiquito Paris" (Trapped Noise Split, H.A.K. Lo-Fi Record N 213, France 2011)

CDs:
Alexei Borisov and Olga Nosova "Elektrokooperatif" (Industrial Music, UK 2010)
ASTMA "DAR-K" ( Letmo, Czech Republic 2011)
V/A MUU FOR EARS 6 ( MUU 2010, Finland)

more info:
www.myspace.com/borisovnosova
www.myspace.com/alexeiborisov
www.myspace.com/olganosova
www.myspace.com/asstma
www.shum.info