WIKITOPIA - Soundtracking# John Cage 4’33”

WIKITOPIA - Soundtracking# John Cage 4’33”

Date: 21/10/2012 (日 sun) 8pm
Venue: Videotage
Unit 13, Cattle Depot Artist Village,
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63 Ma Tau Kok Road, To Kwa Wan, Hong Kong
香港土瓜灣馬頭角道63號牛棚藝術村13號錄映太奇


John Cage是當代藝術史上其中一位最具代表性的大師。為紀念其出生一百週年，Soundtracking # John Cage以今日數碼互動時代的角度重新思考他最為人認識及最具爭議性的作品4’33”。十一位來自不同領域的藝術家，以彼此不同的知識與經驗，在講求分享和合作的Media Wiki平台（http://soundtrackingjohncage433.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page）互相沖激，共同重新創造新版本的4’33”。實驗成果將會以展覽及表演結合成參與集體創作。當晚將由Nerve, Dennis Wong 及 Paul Yip 作互動聲域演出。

John Cage is one of the most influential figures in contemporary art history. Soundtracking#John Cage 4’33” takes the chance to celebrate the centennial of his birth by re-thinking his most famous and controversial composition 4’33” in the contemporary culture of collaboration in the digital era.

Eleven talents whose expertise lies in different fields are invited. Each of them re-invents a new 4’33” through collaborating with the others with different knowledge, skills or experiences on a Media Wiki platform (http://soundtrackingjohncage433.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Main_Page), where sharing and collaboration are emphasized. With the actual engagement of the artists and the general public, new versions 4’33” are generated, and would be exhibited and /or performed together as part of the Festival. Nerve, Dennis Wong and Paul Yip will be collaborated for a sound performance.


參與Soundtracking#John Cage 4’33”的藝術家/Artists Participating Soundtracking#John Cage 4'33：

朱力行/Henry Chu
李天倫/Otto Li
羅家恩/Aenon Loo
Eunice Martins
鮑藹倫/Ellen Pau
曾翠珊/Jessey Tsang
王志勇/Chi-Yung Wong
黃仲輝/Dennis Wong
葉浩恩/Paul Yip
袁智聰/Yuen Chi-Chung
Supertimes

Facilitator/Performer:
NERVE (Steve Hui)


Capacity: 50
Reservation of seat: Please email info@videotage.org.hk or call 2573 1869 by 17.10.2012. First come first served

人數: 50
留座：於17.10.2012前電郵至 info@videotage.org.hk 或致電 2573 1869，先到先得


More info here 更多資料:
http://videotage.org.hk/wikitopia/soundtrackingjohn-cage-433/


About 關於 WIKITOPIA:

維基托邦是香港首個協作未來文化祭，於2010年由錄映太奇所創。
文化祭是各種專業知識交流的中樞，以連串廣泛活動，雲集藝術家、信息及通訊技術（ICT) 人員、網絡活躍份子、策展人、作家、思想和其他好奇之士。

是次維基托邦以「塑據格格」為主題，探討以數據為藝術素材、各種網絡技術，以及提倡以合作產生創意的「發明家」文化。同時，維基托邦將成為一個長達五個月的節目，由2012年9月至2013年1月，一連串工作坊、展覽、表演、藝術家座談會、放映會及其他新穎節目將會舉行。

Wikitopia is the first festival on collaborative future in Hong Kong initiated by Videotage since 2010. The festival aims to act as the pivotal point for artists, ICT personnel, media activists, curators, writers, thinkers and any curious minds to exchange insight and knowledge through a diverse range of programmes in town.

This year, Wikitopia’s theme Data Gaga focuses on data as art, network technology, and the collaborative creativity of the ‘Makers’ Culture. We also expand the festival to a five-month programme from September 2012 - January 2013, including workshops, exhibition, performance, artist forum, screenings, panel, and many others.

WIKITOPIA - Data Gaga including Exhibition, Performance, Artist Talk and Workshops (Talk to me: Botanicalls Twitter DIY, Guerrilla Media: to be or not to be unCloud, and Urban Invader – Urban Attack – Real Time Data and Internet of Things)


More info here 更多資料:
http://videotage.org.hk/wikitopia

NOISE TO SIGNAL 0.07: BLACK ZENITH

 

Pure modular analogue audio-visual improvisation presented by Black Zenith from Singapore. Supported by the experimental duo Sherman + Sin:Ned and laptop quintet Diode.

Performers:
Black Zenith (Analogue Synth / Singapore)
Diode (Electronics / Hong Kong)

Sherman + Sin:Ned (Guitar & Electronics / Hong Kong)

Date: Oct-13, 2012
Open: 8:00 PM
Start: 8:30 PM

Venue: Strategic Sounds
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: HK$120 (at door only)

Presented by Re-Records & Strategic Sounds

For bookings and enquiries, please contact:
rerecordshk (at) gmail.com

About the performers

Black Zenith (Singapore)
http://black-zenith.tumblr.com/
Black Zenith is Brian O’Reilly & Darren Moore. The duo performs using analog modular synthesizers & moving images. They produce dense sonic textures that generate live visuals through the transformation of audio signals into images. Black Zenith draws as much influence from noise music & the electroacoustic music tradition as they do from the foundations of abstract video art.

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Diode (Hong Kong)
The function of a diode is to allow an electric current to pass in one direction (called the diode’s forward direction), while blocking current in the opposite direction (the reverse direction). Diode (Fung Tsun Yin Jasper, Lam Kit Hang Frank, Lau Ho Chi, Tsang Ka Wai Eason, Wong Chun Hoi) is a sonic collective of five multi-disciplinarians, with a simple audio hardware connection structure which transfer the sound in one-way-direction.

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

Sin:Ned, aka Wong Chung-fai, is an unorthodox sonic evangelist who practices improvisational mysticism. He is the co-founder of Re-Records (www.re-records.com) and No One pulse. Currently also one of the Advisors of soundpocket (www.soundpocket.org.hk).
 

NOISE TO SIGNAL 0.06: STRUGGLE FOR MORE FREEDOM

 

A freedom quest. An eternal struggle. Against the system. Featuring the lengendary Alfred 23 Harth.

Performers:
Alfred 23 Harth (Germany)
Jun-Y CIAO (China)
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Wilmer Ongsitco Chan (Hong Kong)
Composers Union of New Tunes + Sin:Ned (Hong Kong)

Date: Oct-9, 2012
Open: 8:00 PM
Start: 8:30 PM

Venue: Strategic Sounds
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: HK$120 (at door only)

Presented by Re-Records & Strategic Sounds

For bookings and enquiries, please contact:
rerecordshk (at) gmail.com

About the performers

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

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Jun-Y CIAO
1978 - Born in Shanghai
2005 - Founded the free music group MTDM
2006 - Graduate the study at the Academy of Fine Arts Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 - Graduate the Meister Class at the Academy of Fine Arts in University Mainz, Germany
Since 2009 - Editor for Art World Magazine, Shanghai
2009 - Founded the acoustic-electronic project “Power Wood Quality”
2009 - Founded the artist collective “ZUZHI” with LI Mu, TAO Yi and XU Zhe
2011 - Founded “the Free Music Collective of Shanghai” with YIN Yi

MTDM, it means “horse without legs” literally in Chinese. Two young artists, who commit themselves to a free and spontaneous music, founded this band in 2005 in Düsseldorf. Similar to the Fluxus predecessors’ exploration into the cross-border arts, the practice of MTDM can be considered a tribute to the pioneers. MTDM seems to be synonymous with “good-for-nothing”. In almost all of the Western films, if the legs break, the horse will be killed by cowboys with no exception. The two members, Jun-Y and TAO Yi, both were born in the year of horse - in 1978. “Horse without legs”, the self-mocking name, implies exactly the profound thinking of the two artists on how to walk without legs.

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Wilmer Ongsitco Chan
Wilmer Ongsitco Chan (b.1985) has recently completed his Bachelor degree in Music Theory/Composition and Studio Art from Lawrence University, WI.

Wilmer’s main interest however lies in the spontaneity and freedom in musical improvisations, and wishes to continue perform and help promote such practice in Asia in the future.

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Composers Union of New Tunes + Sin:Ned
Composers Union for New Tunes is a lethal free Improvisational duo from Hong Kong formed by Kevin Pan (guitars, vocals) and Callum MacKenzie (sax). Kevin used to play in bands like Heta Uma and Charisma. Callum is currently playing in a wide variety of different jazz groups in Hong Kong.

Sin:Ned, aka Wong Chung-fai, is an unorthodox sonic evangelist who practices improvisational mysticism. He is the co-founder of Re-Records (www.re-records.com) and No One pulse. Currently also one of the Advisors of soundpocket (www.soundpocket.org.hk).

HIGH WOLF LIVE IN HK

 

Led by the shamanic acid folk of High Wolf from France, this is going to be a rare audio-visual psychedelic trip of esoteric communion from the other side.

Performers:
High Wolf (France)
Purple Pilgrims (New Zealand)
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Composers Union of New Tunes + Sin:Ned (Hong Kong)
Caligine (Italy)

Date: Oct-10, 2012
Open: 8:00 PM
Start: 8:30 PM

Venue: Strategic Sounds
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: HK$120 (at door only)

Presented by Re-Records & Strategic Sounds

For bookings and enquiries, please contact:
rerecordshk (at) gmail.com

About the performers

High Wolf (France)
highwolf.bandcamp.com
France’s High Wolf possesses a natural-born ability to zero in on the tones most conducive to inducing transcendental states. Prolific without wearing out his welcome, this guitarist and manipulator of effects boxes looses fervid streams of fever-dreamy drones that suffuse any room they enter with mystery. High Wolf’s tracks carry the uncanny sense of sounding as if they’ve been sluicing since the beginning of time, and that he had the graciousness to siphon them for teasingly brief absorption before they shimmer off to the vanishing point. midheaven.com

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Purple Pilgrims (New Zealand)
purplepilgrims.blogspot.hk
Purple Pilgrims are two NZ/now Hong Kong based sisters, Clementine and Valentine Nixon and the sonics are out of this world, with distant, barely audible female vocals over heavenly smears of super-degraded guitar amp hiss and the feel off muzzy choral music with undersea fidelity and an inchoate devotional aspect that is spectacularly affecting. (...) Spectacularly beautiful, with an expressive use of fidelity that goes well beyond the long blank and into radical new zones of suggestive lo-grade/high-mass psych. volcanictongue.com

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Composers Union of New Tunes + Sin:Ned (Hong Kong)
sin-ned.blogspot.hk
Composers Union of New Tunes is a lethal free Improvisational duo from Hong Kong formed by Kevin Pan (guitars, vocals) and Callum MacKenzie (sax). Kevin used to play in bands like Heta Uma and Charisma. Callum is currently playing in a wide variety of different jazz groups in Hong Kong.

Sin:Ned, aka Wong Chung-fai, is an unorthodox sonic evangelist who practices improvisational mysticism. He is the co-founder of Re-Records (www.re-records.com) and No One pulse. Currently also one of the Advisors of soundpocket (www.soundpocket.org.hk).

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Caligine (Italy)
www.monstresparexces.com
Caligine is the Italian word for haze, smog, mist. It all started five years ago as a move away from moving away. Smokey and hazy acoustic textures beneath a grain of noisy dust. A process carried on year by year, worshipping the grain of wood. Rejecting the form, accepting the embrace. A collective endeavor without belonging. If art is stealing from the most obscure sources, we’re looking for pure craftsmanship: psychedelic ragas, strings cascading in chained loops, loose fingerpicking and all the pretty little bells.

Footage of Torturing Nurse / Nojiji / Sin:Ned Japan Tour 2012

Sin:Ned live @ SOUP Tokyo 2012.09.07

 

Torturing Nurse live @ SOUP Tokyo 2012.09.07

 

Mafeisan 麻沸散 live @ SOUP Tokyo 2012.09.07

 

 

Mei ZhiYong 梅志勇 live @ SOUP Tokyo 2012.09.07 

 

 

Sin:Ned Live at Earthdom Tokyo 2012.09.06

 

 

Sin:Ned + Mei ZhiYong + Torturing Nurse + Laurent Valdes @ UPLINK Factory, Tokyo 2012.09.04 

 

Torturing Nurse + MaFeiSan + MeiZhiyong + Sin:Ned Live @ Namba Bears, Osaka 2012.09.02



Li YangYang + Sin:Ned @ At Hall, Oita 2012.08.31

NOISE TO SIGNAL 0.05: OLAF HOCHHERZ ~ ALOK ~ SIN:NED

 



The fifth installment of NOISE TO SIGNAL is a showcase for German sound artist Olaf Hochherz, with supporting guest Alok and Sin:Ned.

Olaf Hochherz is born 1981 in Wuppertal/Germany. He studied at Folkwang Hochschule Essen electronic composition and at Bauhaus University Weimar media-art/media-design. Parallel to the education in composition he started to improvise with self build electronic instruments. He is interested in unstable systems. His goal is not to control a technical aperture but to create an ...

associative field. The sounds have their own live. His playing tries to keep them alive. He is interested in the effect acoustic activity has, the relation between surrounding environment and instruments, between abstract sounds and associations, between electrical and other worlds.

PERFORMERS
OLAF HOCHHERZ (ELECTRONICS / GERMANY)
ALOK (ELECTRONICS / HONG KONG)
SIN:NED (ELECTRONICS / HONG KONG)

DATE: Sep-29 (Sat)
TIME: 8:00 PM

VENUE: soundpocket
ADDRESS: Unit 10C, Gee Chang Industrial Building, 108 Lok Shan Road, Tokwawan, Kowloon, Hong Kong　

ADMISSION: HK$120 (at door only)

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

Closing Party @ HellHOT! New Music Festival

Selections of Hong Kong Experimental Indie
Curated by Kung Chi Shing & Steve Hui

August 16 (Thursday) 2012, 8-10pm
Venue: SOUTHSITE, Aberdeen. 2B, 3/F, Blue Box Industrial Building,. 25 Hing Wo Street, Tin Wan, Hong Kong
$200 (incl. drinks)

http://​hellhotfestival.org/events/​closing-party/

PROGRAMME;

Meta Fog
Composer Union for the New Tunes
Alok + Sin:Ned
Wilmer Chan + Adam Leung + Nelson + Les
Nerve + Kung

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BIOGRAPHIES:

Meta Fog

Meta Fog consists of Sascia Pellegrini (drums, percussions, electronics) and Eric Wong (guitar, electronics) who attempt to do musical mashup by abusing the audible elements the duo have experienced and fill them into their music, i.e. meta music.

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Composers Union for New Tunes 新音樂作曲家聯盟

Callum McKenzie (Saxophone)
Kevin Pan (Guitars, Voice)

Composers Union for New Tunes came to birth partly because of the the member's dissatisfaction towards the music they used to be playing, and being so fed up with the 'conventional' methods of making music.

Kevin had played in bands like Charisma and Heta Uma, and used to be a Canton pop arranger.
Callum is a fresh graduate out of Berklee College of music, now in Hong Kong playing live standard jazz regularly. His collaborators includes names such as Ted Lo and Tsang Tak Hong...etc

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Alok + Sin:Ned

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), AGF Live in HK (2005), Get It Louder (2007), Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism / Architecture (2008), Red / Red_Shift: A Sound Exhibition & Perfromance For The Red Compilation in HK / Shenzhen (2009), Waterland Kwanyin 水陆观音160 (2009), Architecture is Art Festival (2009), Rebuilding Haiti (2010), Whisper Music Festival (2010) and Night of 3Dimensions (2011).

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Sin:Ned
http://​sin-ned.blogspot.com/
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 Bi-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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Wilmer + Adam + Nelson + Les

Wilmer Ongsitco Chan
"Wilmer Ongsitco Chan (b.1985) has recently completed his Bachelor degree in Music Theory/Composition and Studio Art from Lawrence University, WI.

Wilmer’s main interest however lies in the spontaneity and freedom in musical improvisations, and wishes to continue perform and help promote such practice in Asia in the future."

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Adam Leung
Adam Leung is many things; a self taught multi-instrumentalist, a tinker, a scientist, amongst many others. Initially a self taught drummer, later merging his drumming techniques with guitar playing resulting in his unconventional methods of playing guitar and various stringed instruments. With knowledge in several fields of science, he is constantly exploring methods to tinker with existing musical instruments and sometimes creating his own. He is also the founder of Brown Note Collective, an experimental/free improvisational musical group.
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邱立信 Nelson Hiu
Nelson Hiu studied Ethnomusicology at the University of Hawaii, and moved to Hong Hong in 1985 where he took up dance music accompaniment as a profession. Hiu’s interest in music improvisation comes from the social unrest of the 1960’s and 1970’s, and he had been performing and composing with many artists in the multi-arts in all sorts of venues and osscasions. His innovative uses of instruments include the bamboo flute, drums, erhu, guqin, electronic musical instruments and voice. He has performed in the Mainland, Japan, Taiwan, Germant and the United States. His discographies include Music for Roaches, birds & Other Creatures, Still Here, POK and Normal Free.
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Les Fong
Les has been on drums for a while now. His earliest playing experience was keeping time to the music of John Coltrane, Little Richard, and various “top 40” radio artist of the 50’s; beating on an old Danish cookie can with Chinese teak wood chopsticks. The next 50 years were devoted to playing with other musicians/artists also attracted to this ‘in gathering’ of human culture. Deeply attracted to the ‘groove’, Les is inspired and admires the great Love, Passion, and Devotion of Hong Kong folk and all who are working peace and unity!

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Nerve + Kung

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

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Kung Chi Shing
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Kung Chi Shing is a composer, performer and music activist. Kung studied classical music and composition in the United States with Allen Trubitt and George Crumb. He is known particularly for his work in the music and performance group ‘The Box’, which he founded with Peter Suart in 1987, and since 2009 as founder and curator of the ‘Street Music Series’ (co-produced with the Hong Kong Arts Centre) of free public concerts in Hong Kong.
In his compositions and performances, Kung focuses on experimentation with different formats, including pop, classical and improvisational music, and theatre art. Since 1996 he has created, composed and staged six full-length music theatre pieces: Destiny Travels Limited, The Floating Bridge, City Inside a Broken Sky, M Garden, City Inside a Broken Sky(II) and MINAMATA : A Requiem.

He has collaborated frequently with choreographers, directors and theatre artists, and has performed his music in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, Cuba, Tashkent, New York, London, Berlin and Venice. Kung’s solo recordings on CD include Destiny Travels Limited and Bluesilence/Fishdreams, while his recordings with The Box include the compilations BOX: GO HOME, The Box: Full Fathon Five and the special 20th anniversary set The Box Book.

TORTURING NURSE、NOJIJI、SIN:NED JAPAN TOUR 2012

2012.08.31 Oita At Hall

Torturing Nurse/Ray Temple/Sin:Ned Ensemble/Sete Star Sept/viscera infest
OPEN 19:00 START 19:30 / ADV 1500 yen / DOOR 1800 yen
http://www.athall.com/ 09-7535-2567
〒870-0035 大分市中央町2-6-4 一井開発ビル３F
tel:097-535-2567

2012.09.01 Fukuoka Graf

Against 2012: Fukuoka Extreme Music Festival
Torturing Nurse/Ray Temple/Sin:Ned Ensemble/Sete Star Sept/Hard-Ons/SOLMANIA/Carcass Grinder/KK NULL/Nerd/End of Pollution/DEEPEND/Bushman's Revenge
OPEN 18:30 START 19:00 / ADV 2500 yen / DOOR 3000 yen (＋1D)
http://fukuokaextrememusic2012.blogspot.com/
http://www.graf-graf.com/ 09-2733-1199
ZIP 810-0001
福岡市中央区天神3丁目4-19
WITH TENJI B1
TEL / FAX : 092-733-1199

2012.09.02 Osaka Namba Bears

Torturing Nurse/Ray Temple/Sin:Ned Ensemble/Sete Star Sept/Arkham/Sandersonia
OPEN 18:30 START 19:00 / ADV 1500 yen / DOOR 2000 yen
http://namba-bears.main.jp/ 06-6649-5564
〒556-0011
大阪府大阪市浪速区難波中３－１４－５　新日本難波ビルB1
TEL&FAX 06-6649-5564

2012.09.04 Tokyo Uplink

Extreme Music from China
Film Screening: Fuck You (Sub Rosa)
Artist Talk: Circuit Bending by Mei Zhiyong
Audio/Visual Performance: Torturing Nurse/Ray Temple/Sin:Ned Ensemble (Sound) x Laurent Valdes (Video)
OPEN 19:00 START 19:30 / ADV 1800 yen / DOOR 2300 yen (+1 drink order 500 yen)
http://www.uplink.co.jp
〒150-0042 東京都渋谷区宇田川町37-18 トツネビル1階
el. 03-6825-5503

2012.09.05 Tokyo Musashino Art University

Lecture: Non-Standard Sound Making (Mei ZhiYong + Wong Chung-fai)
Performance: Toturing Nurse+Sin:Ned / Mei Zhiyong+Mafeisan
http://www.musabi.ac.jp/
〒187-8505 東京都小平市小川町1-736

2012.09.06 Tokyo Earthdom

D/G/Sp
Torturing Nurse / Mei Zhiyong+Mafeisan / Sin:Ned / 発狂 /BACTERIA
OPEN 18:30 START 19:00 / ADV 1500 yen / DOOR 2000 yen (+1 drink order 500 yen)
http://www1.odn.ne.jp/shinjuku-dom/index.html/dom.html
東京都新宿区大久保2-32-3 リスボンビルB1
TEL 03-3205-4469

2012.09.07 Tokyo Soup

Torturing Nurse / Mafeisan / Mei Zhiyong / Sin:Ned
Special guest: Zbigniew Karkowski
http://ochiaisoup.web.fc2.com/
新宿区上落合3-9-10松の湯B1 03-6909-3000

鏗鏘集 - 讓耳朵張開

2012年7月22日-鏗鏘集 讓耳朵張開

聲音，觸不到、看不見，卻圍繞着我們。

聲音藝術工作者，視聆聽聲音為感受世界的一個面向；科研人員，視聲音為研究改善生活質素的專題；酷愛自然的人，視聲音為恢復身心健康的良方。

只要用心聆聽，聲音無處不在；只要張開耳朵，就能感受環境同大自然所傳遞的訊息。

NOISE TO SIGNAL 0.04

Featuring CIRCUITRIP from Singapore, and Patrick Donze (CH), Margie Tong (HK), Composers Union of New Tunes (HK), Orgasm Denial (HK), Sherman (HK) and Sin:Ned (HK), the fourth installment of the Noise to Signal series continues to re-imagine a noise paradigm of unconventional performance that defies genres and categories with risk-taking improvisational practice.

PERFORMERS
CIRCUITRIP (Noise Electronics / Singapore)
Patrick Donzé (Electronics / Switzerland)
Composers Union for New Tunes (Sax & Guitar duo / Hong Kong)
Orgasm Denial (Noise Electronics / Hong Kong)
Margie Tong + Sin:Ned (Percussion & Guitar duo / Hong Kong)
Sherman + Sin:Ned (Guitar duo / Hong Kong)

Date: Aug-18 (Sat)
Time: 8:30 PM

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

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

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ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

CIRCUITRIP (Singapore)
http://soundcloud.com/circuitrip
CIRCUITRIP is an act that is best experienced live: extend the use of technology and virtual space-fusing familiar sounds, distorted and deconstructed sample, and restructures them into arresting soundscape that will definitely capture your attention... CIRCUITRIP believes that noise is social skill, a daily motion for soundtrack of our life that breaks the boundaries of any aura expectations.    

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Patrick Donzé (Switzerland)
As a child of electronic era, Patrick Donzé has brought together the computer-generated tools and instruments in an effort to transcend today’s digital power. “My sound feeds on machines in an improvised movement taking sense in a snap moment.”

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Margie Tong (Hong Kong)
http://www.margietong.com/
Tong graduated from the School of Music of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She was a recipient of The Standard Chartered Bank Scholarship (1994), The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music Fund (1994) and The Croucher Charitable Trust (1996) from England to continue her studies at the Royal College of Music in London. Tong performed Marimba Concerto as a soloist with the RCM Sinfonia in May 1995. During this time she won the Sullivan and Farrar Prize (1995) and the British Resume Prize (1995).

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Composers Union of New Tunes (Hong Kong)
A lethal improvisation duo formed by Callum MacKenzie (Sax) and Kevin Pang (Guitar).

About Kevin:
曾與無數星級音樂人合作﹐包括劉以達﹐黃家強﹐Seasons

Lee,  張懸﹐張敬軒,  王宛之﹐劉德華﹐啤梨等。連本地著名吉他手Joey Tang與星級監製陳煥仁都報過夢比我﹐話佢兩個之之下最能扌店 就係到我....咁勁秋﹐唔聽米好笨!

About Callum:
Ornette Coleman接班人。音樂資歷同Kevin一模一樣﹐除左冇同過啤梨和Seasons合作之外......
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Orgasm Denial (Hong Kong)
http://vimeo.com/36265768
http://soundcloud.com/orgasmdenialhk
http://noisoke.blogspot.com/
Active since late 2008, Rolf's harshtronic & sonic adventure which is influenced by early electronic music, japanoise and various cutting edge experimental artists. His work mainly focus on challenge of hearing and psychedelic experience.

Rolf also curates the label Noisoke Records which brings more sounds into town, including the Orgasm Denial & Torturing Nurse - split 7" 'Real Noise: From Cannibalism To Karaoke' (2011) and some selected items from other countries, as well as an ongoing Power Electronics and Noise performance series "Cut My Throat" with label Assembly of Hatred 仇恨集結 including KK Null, Torturing Nurse, Hatred In Eyes, etc.

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Sherman (Hong Kong)
http://www.myspace.com/shermanho

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

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Sin:Ned (Hong Kong)
http://sin-ned.blogspot.com/

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 Bi-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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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.

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