RE-RECORDS, LONA RECORDS & CIA PRESENTS
NOISE to SIGNAL 0.KS: AS / CHRISTIAAN VIRANT /
JAMES FEI
A special edition of NOISE to SIGNAL,
featuring Christiaan Virant (from FM3) and US based Taiwanese artist James Fei,
and our Hong Kong originals, Alok + Sin:Ned.
13 APR, 2013 (SAT)
OPEN: 8:00 PM
START: 8:30 PM
PERFORMERS
Alok + Sin:Ned
Christiaan Virant (from
FM3)
James Fei
Admission: HK$100 (Advance) / HK$130 (At door)
CIA (Culture Industries Association)
Unit 7, 8/F, Block B, Wah Tat Industrial Centre, 8-10 Wah Sing Street, Kwai Hing, Kowloon, Hong Kong
華達工業大厦B座八樓七室, 八至十號華星街, 葵興
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Alok
Alok, a sound artist,
musician and DJ. Since he first emerged in 1994 with his first band, Pillow,
Alok has proved to be a unique and driving force in shaping the alternative
sounds of this city. The songwriter and guitarist first rose to prominence in
1997 after he disbanded (noisenik and shoegazing) Pillow and formed Slow Tech
Riddim . Here they formed electronic music with live streaming guitars. They
produced two innovative albums in 2000 – 2001. In 2002, he set up his own
record label Lona Records, and started working as a solo artist and a producer.
He released more than 10 albums and singles from 2002 to 2011. He has played and
participated in more than 150 shows and experimental events / projects in Hong Kong, Portugal,
Macau and China.
In addition, it will be involved in animation, short film and independent film
music and music design in. 2008 he formed the new electronic band A Roller
Control and now is the member of DJ crew “Are Friends Electric?”.
Christiaan Virant (from
FM3)
Christiaan Virant(FM3老趙) is a Beijing-based musician and media artist. He
is considered among the pioneers of electronic music in China, crafting a meditative
ambience which combines Chinese classical instruments with modern digital
techniques.
His band, FM3, has been called “the most prominent
experimental act in China”
by US magazine Grooves. The UK
magazine The Wire calls Virant's live sets “meditative,” “soothing” and
“engagingly intimate.”
Virant is best known for his design and production
of the "Buddha Machine" loop-player. This small music box was named
one of the best music releases of 2005 by the New York Times. In 2011, The
Washington Post put the third-generation Buddha Machine at the top of its
buying guide for music lovers. “It’s bliss,” the paper said.
In addition to the Buddha Machine, Virant creates
music for film, television, multi-media art exhibits and has an extensive
discography on various labels around the world.
James
Fei
James Fei (b. Taipei,
Taiwan) moved to the US in
1992 to study electrical engineering. He has since been active as a composer
and performer on saxophones and live electronics. Works by Fei have been
performed by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble,
MATA Micro Orchestra and Noord-Hollands Philharmonisch Orkest. Recordings can
be found on Leo Records, Improvised Music from Japan, CRI, Krabbesholm and
Organized Sound. Compositions for Fei's own ensemble of four alto saxophones
focus on physical processes of saliva, fatigue, reeds crippled by cuts and the
threshold of audible sound production, while his sound installations and
performance on live electronics often focus on feedback. Since 2006 Fei has
taught at Mills College
in Oakland,
where he is Associate Professor of Electronic Arts.
Sin:Ned
Sin:Ned, from Hong Kong,
aka Wong Chung-fai. Improviser, experimentalist and noise practitioner. Advocator
of sonic mysticism, who is in search of freedom against the system in chaos and
errors. Co-founder of Re-Records (www.re-records.com) and advisor of
soundpocket (www.soundpocket.org.hk). Founding member of No One Pulse, iii and
After Doom. The power house of the live performance series NOISE to SIGNAL.
Being a veteran writer of the legendary Hong Kong
alternative music magazine MCB (Music Colony Bi-Weekly), his writings had
influenced a wide spectrum of experimental musicians and listeners in Hong Kong
and China.
As a sound improviser, he has offered performance and creative work for
concert, sound installation, workshop, audio-visual and theatrical performance.
He had taken part and performed in HK Sound and Vision Festival (2003), Get It
Louder (2007), Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture
(2007, 2009), Architecture is Art Festival (2009), Notch Festival 2009
Guangzhou Station (2009), Against 2012: Fukuoka Extreme Music Festival (2012),
New Vision Arts Festival (2012), Miji Festival (2013)…etc, and collaborated
with artists such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Otomo Yoshihide, Kazuhisa Uchihashi,
Alfred 23 Harth, Yan Jun, Torturing
Nurse, dj sniff , and Dickson Dee…etc.
ABOUT RE-RECORDS & NOISE TO SIGNAL
Re-Records is a record
label initiated by experimental / electro-acoustic duo No One Pulse from Hong Kong. With Re, we don’t solely aim to be an outlet
for releasing self-initiated or other affiliated projects, but also for artists
and releases we deem interesting.
Noise to Signal is a performance
series for improvised noise and experimental music within the context of
performing art.
Artists who had performed
in our concert series:
… (CH), iii (HK), 23N! (JP), After Doom (HK),
ahshun aka bjornho (HK), Alexei Borisov (RU), Alfred
23 Harth (DE), Alok (HK), ASTMA (RU), Black Zenith (SG), Brian
O’Reilly (SG), Caligine (IT), Circuitrip (SG), Claudio Rocchetti (IT),
Composers Union of New Tunes (HK), Da Xiao (CN), Dickson Dee (HK), dj sniff (NL), DJ Urine (FR), Diode (HK), e:ch (MO), Everdark (HK), Fritz
Welch (UK), Fumiko Ikeda (JP), Go Koyashiki (JP), Gregory Buttner (DE), Heroses (HK), High Wolf (FR), Joao Vasco Paiva (HK), Jun-Y CIAO (CN), Kazuhisa Uchihashi (JP), Klaus Janek (IT), KLC_NIR (CN), KWC (HK), Laurent
Valdès (CH), Li YangYang (CN), Li Zenghui (CN), Lin Zhiying (CN), Margie Tong (HK), Mei ZhiYong
(CN), Meta Fog (HK), Naturalismo (IT), Nerve (HK), No One Pulse (HK),
Oetzi.P (HK), Olaf Hochherz (DE), Olga Nosova (RU), Patrick Donze (CH), Purple
Pilgrims (NZ), Ricardo da Silva (CH), Richard Francis (NZ), Shelf-Index (HK),
Sherman (HK), shotahirama (JP), Sin:Ned (HK), Syndrome WPW (CH), Taishi Kamiya
(JP), Tetragrammaton (JP), The Invisible Frog and Time Machine aka Ronez (CN), Toshikazu
Goto (JP), ::vtol:: (RU), Wilmer Ongsitco Chan (HK), Wilson Tsang (HK), Yan Jun (CN), Yang
Xiu (CN), Yukitomo Hamasaki (JP), Zbigniew Karkowski (PL), ZenLu
(CN)…
Please visit www.re-records.com or join our group on
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rerec
ABOUT LONA RECORDS
Set up in 2003, Lona Records is an independent label in Hong Kong preoccupied with producing Alternative /
Experimental music.
ABOUT CIA (Cultural Industries
Association)
Through our regular
programs of concerts, art exhibitions, film screenings, seminars and workshops,
it is our hope to bring to you not what have we seen already, but rather how we
perceived these ideas, their contexts, and how these seemingly abstract
concepts can affect and relate to our everyday lives. To prompt changes, renew
our senses and debase our previously fixated point of views, this is the only
way to a future – any future away from here. According to Plato, we live
chained inside a dark cave; all we can see is the back wall and the shadows
that move there. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. That what we in fact
seeing are aspects of ourselves that fall over one another. Shadows.
Projections. Our associations - of the culture industries.
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