Friday, September 28, 2012

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)
...
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)
...
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.

Monday, September 17, 2012

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



Friday, September 14, 2012

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