A Fly Enters. Immense Breath of the SEA. A Pack of Mice Breaks. Fearless Journey in the JUNGLE.
“A fly enters. The fly, as we have seen and will see again, represents the undesirable companion, Its sonic presence is heard like empty chatter, but it also incarnates in this case sound that cannot be captured - sound that is interrupted and restarts according to its own law.”
— Sound: An Acoulogical Treatise, Michel Chion
A fly/ A Pack of Mice/ The sea and Jungle/ flying and breaks, could either suggest a theme or an idea, an implementation of gestures and feral movements; it also brings up the awareness between the environment and the existence of human beings. It invites us to pay attention to smaller things in an enormous landscape, to pick up neglected sounds in our surroundings, and to feel the boundless ocean where we are situated. It stretches as an umbrella that creates a makeshift space shared between individuals, a temporary shelter that allows private exchanges. As we drift into our fragmented reality, this event attempts to create a new gravity across individuals, create new ways of experiencing sound, forming nodes between seemingly unrelated people and things, experiencing seeing and listening through compound eyes and ears.
About the Host
Shih-Tung Lo
As a leading member of OCAC (Open-Contemporary Art Center), Shih-Tung Lo’s practice orbits around multiple gravities — of his personal artistic pursuit as well as of his interest in collective practice. Lo has been taking a very specific role in navigating potential interactions among cross-cultural perspectives and artistic practices, investigating the force of art that is mobilized and shaped by the collaborative process.
Tsung-Yun Lai
He has served as the organizer of the Lacking Sound Festival since 2013 in Taiwan. Sound and image productions are the first step in his artistic career. Lai’s video works are based on folk religious rituals and AI art, which chain the mixed noises and oversampling test tones altogether, providing listeners a profound dip into the enigmatic soundscape.
About the Screening
Wisisi Nit Meke (Our Wisisi Music)
Directed by: Arief Budiman, Bonny Lanny, Harun Rumbarar
Wisisi Nit Meke (Our Wisisi Music), a snapshot of the development of Wisisi, an electronic music from the central highland region that is currently becoming a new identity for the people in West Papua. It’s an intersection of modern technology and traditional music. Nikolas, Asep, and other youths transform Wisisi and Pesek into a popular electronic music offering with Aster's rocking shuffle.
About the Artist
Yenting Hsu
Using sound as the primary creation medium, Yenting Hsu investigates the cultural context and texture of sounds. Her works often reflect the relationship between sounds, environment, individual and/or collective memories and emotions. Interweaving field recordings with electronic sounds and objects, Hsu keeps exploring and experimenting documentary and fiction / narrative and imaginary elements of recorded sounds.
Sheng-Kai Chuang
From Penghu, Chuang specializes in experimental electronic music, sound design, and composition. Integrating self-made recording devices, sound sampling, and sound design into creations, he explores the diversity and malleability of sound through artworks.
Panai
A multifaceted artist, singer, and lyricist/composer. Engaging in various human rights and environmental movements in Taiwan, she uses music as a form of resistance. Through her creations and self-realization, she continues to be a resilient force in the ongoing struggle. Having wandered between cities in her youth, facing fear and anxiety alone, she grapples with her identity rooted in indigenous heritage. Her works, characterized by a profound and melancholic tone, are stark and straightforward, akin to a sharp blade, addressing themes of loneliness and relentless self-questioning.
Tsung-Yun Lai
He has served as the organizer of the Lacking Sound Festival since 2013 in Taiwan. Sound and image productions are the first step in his artistic career. Lai’s video works are based on folk religious rituals and AI art, which chain the mixed noises and oversampling test tones altogether, providing listeners a profound dip into the enigmatic soundscape.
Sundialll
Sundialll is a duo comprised of sound artists Ramaputratantra from Indonesia and LICA from Taiwan. In the midst of the global pandemic, the two artists came together to embark on a cross-border sonic collage experiment. Engaging in long-distance exchanges, they sought to trigger new auditory and sensory experiences, listening to the absent elements such as things, identities, spacetime, and tangible changes.
Dawang Yingfan Huang
Family roots in Luzhu, Kaohsiung, born in Taipei in 1975. He has a passion for unpopular music and bedroom recordings. His core projects include “My life is audio graffiti” and “Blackwolf Nagashi”, and he has published several albums and performed in Taiwan and overseas.
Julian Abraham ‘Togar’
Multidisciplinary artist born in 1987, Togar is an Indonesian artist, programmer, and pseudo-scientist who incorporates a significant amount of music and sonic landscapes into his works. His creations span across various skills and interests, exploring the intersections between art, environment, science, and technology. He is fascinated by the fact that even small interventions can change something to form new, sustainable support systems.
Schedule
15:00 - 15:20 Playback Music Section by Wok the Rock
15:20 - 16:00 Screening – Wisisi Nit Meke
16:00 - 19:00 Music Performances – A Fly Enters. Immense Breath of the SEA. A Pack of Mice Breaks. Fearless Journey in the JUNGLE.
Language: Chinese, consecutive translation in English
Artist Line-Up
Yenting Hsu
Sheng-Kai Chuang
Panai
Tsung-Yun Lai
Sundialll
Dawang Yingfan Huang
Julian Abraham ‘Togar’