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Live A/V — 33EMYBW / KYOKA / SHAO / GOOOOOSE / W MENG At Recombinant Festival

From Shanghai to Tokyo, Recombinant Festival 2019 will showcase key artists shaping East Asia’s vital underground scene.

Friday November 15, 2019
Doors 9pm

$25 Advance Tickets
21+

Making waves with their live sets around the world, these experimental audiovisual artists from the Far East will bring a transformative night through their colossal sound and expansive imagery.

Two of the night’s featured performers, Shanghai’s 33EMYBW and Tokyo’s Kyoka were recently handpicked by Aphex Twin to share the stage with him at his inaugural Warehouse Project in Manchester, UK. 33EMYBW’s post-club sound has been described by Vice as a “futuristic acid trip” and CDM has called Kyoka’s experimental techno “rough, beautiful chaos.”

Ambient experimental artist Shao is the first Chinese artist to be signed onto the legendary Berlin imprint Tresor, joining a roster that has hosted the likes of techno legends such as Jeff Mills, Terrence Dixon, Juan Atkins and Robert Hood. Aided by his visualist Wang Meng, his techno never opts for the easy release, instead conferring a sustained tension that rarely disappoints.

GOOOOOSE is one of the defining artists of Shanghai’s burgeoning electronic music scene. An open ended musical project, the rhythm heavy sound collages forge a unique local Chinese identity with a broad, informed and eclectic foreign influence.

This evening, the heart of the festival, will strikingly reorient audience expectations of the underground dance floor.

Artists

33EMYBW

33EMYBW is a producer and artist currently living and working in Shanghai. She pioneered the 'Arthropod Step' style with her unclassifiable alien-like rhythms and arthropod-inspired sound design. Her debut album Golem was named one of the best electronic albums of 2018 by Bandcamp. Her second album Arthropods made it further into several  scenes  including RA's ‘Best Albums of 2019’, ‘Top Albums of the Decade 2010-19’, and FACT’s ‘Best Albums of 2019’. It was also praised by Boomkat as an album that ‘defined 2019’. Her latest album Holes of Sinian was awarded The Quietus’ Best Electronic Music Album of the Year, and was premiered as a collaboration with visual artist Joey Holder, commissioned by Unsound Festival and Illuminate Adelaide.

Kyoka

Kyoka

Kyoka was one of  the first woman  artists to be signed onto Germany’s  raster-noton and works as a musician/composer in Berlin and Tokyo. Known for her chaotic yet direct musical approach focusing on experimental yet danceable rhythms, she grew up in Kanazawa Japan, and underwent piano, flute and shamisen lessons as a child, while simultaneously discovering her passion for tape recorders and field recording. Inspired by her residency at EMS studios in Stockholm, her latest record >>SH<< showcases Kyoka's uncanny ability to deftly handle repetition, chaos and unforeseen slants in pulse shifting  with spontaneously  jagged precision.

Shao

Shao

Shao is the first Chinese artist to be signed to the legendary Berlin techno imprint Tresor, and is one of China's leading figures in the world of electronic music and audio visual performance. Highly sought-after as a composer and sound designer, he was invited by the Goethe Institute to re-compose the soundtrack for the classic German silent film Metropolis. Shao also has an ongoing collaboration with leading Chinese directors Meng Jinghui and Cheng Ran. At Recombinant Festival 2019, Shao and visualist Wang Meng presented, for the first time, his colossal and discombobulated sound to the city of San Francisco.

GOOOOOSE

GOOOOOSE

GOOOOOSE is the experimental music moniker of Han Han, front man of one of China’s most well-known experimental rock bands Duck Fight Goose and also owner of the experimental record label Miniless Recordings. His multi-instrumental approach towards music leads the audience into a place where ambient soundscapes, heavily synthesized textures and syncopated rhythms clash as well as harmonize. Apart from making music, Han Han is also a visual artist and software developer. Currently residing in Shanghai, GOOOOOSE has performed internationally including showcases at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the CTM festival in Berlin, Cite De La Musique in Paris and the SXSW festival in Austin.

Wang Meng

Wang Meng

Wang Meng is a multimedia visual artist from China and co-founder of Atomic Visual Studio. His work broadly covers video, music, installation art, animation, multimedia stage design, and painting. Wang Meng's audio-visual interactive performances with SHAO have been performed all over the world with pieces like “The Shape of Sound” and “Doppler Shift” being shown at the Worldtronics Festival (DE), Electron Festival (SZ), Cidade Preocupada Festival (PT), Festival Tokyo(JP), and SXSW 2018(US). “Nine Kuai Nine” a.k.a.9.9, conceived up by Wang, is an open ended group with no fixed members and the project merges the world of sound, visuals, and new media installation.

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