SiCKL Open Lab 010: How the GIG stole Christmas!

Event: SiCKL Open Lab 010: How the GIG stole Christmas!
Date: Saturday, 12 December 2009 @ 8:30pm
Attire: light and casual
Admission by donation.
Add: 73, 3rd floor (top floor), Amber Business Plaza, Jalan Jelawat 1, Cheras 56100, KL. (Take STAR line LRT, stop at Cheras Station, 2 minute walk from the station.)

Information: kokbuffalo@yahoo. com / truly_au@hotmail. com
Directions: yandsen at 012-9198031

December 2009 marks the 10th SiCKL Open Lab. We are doing fine so far, even though with no budget, still! December lab has an exciting line-up, with lots of actions! We have versatile dancer Low Shee Hoe bringing his "Lapar Lab" performing arts collective, collaborating with improvised musicians Yong Yandsen, Kok Siew Wai and Ng Chor Guan; contact improv instructor David Lim will be presenting Dichotomous Reunion: A Physical Excavation" with partner Iylia; a special guest from Australia, Sarah Angus, will do an improv music session with our very own SiCKL house band. Sarah will also be showing a video; and of course, you need more love/angst songs in this holiday season from SCAM!

Now you can witness how "the GIG stole Christmas" at SiCKL Open Lab this year!

++++

Information on participating artists:

1. Lapar Lab (Local Artist Performing Arts Region)“LAPAR” means ‘hungry’ or ‘desire’ from the Malay language. It indicates the serious aspiration and strong cordiality to the professionalism and the artistic creation of performing arts. LAPAR Lab was conceptualized by Low Shee Hoe, who graduated from Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts. This is a non-profit organization and it provides a platform or a space to publish works of performing arts and visual arts, through the support, sponsor and cooperation from the each member. www.laparlab. com
Founder: Low Shee Hoe
Members: HII ING FUNG, JASMINE LEE MEI LING, LAU BEH CHIN, LIM HOOI MIN, LIM SHIN HUI, LIM SIEW LING, NANCY NG PEI YU, SAW LI WEI, TAN SHIOA POR, TEH XIAO MIN, YAP CHEE YEE, TAN LEI MOOI, LEE LIXIN.

2. David Lim & Iylia: David's retrogressive foray into faux-modernism has been accelerated by his love for amorphous improvisation, his dabbling in nouveau cirque, his fascination with Wikipediafied art movements, and his YouTubing of contemporary popisms, although he attests to a high probability, statistically speaking, of being a Philistine, irreligiously speaking, in each and every one of them.

3. Sarah Angus is an Australian artist. She completed Masters in Visual Arts at Queensl and College of Art in Brisbane (Griffith University, 2008). Her arts practice has been influenced by extensive travel and work in communities through Asia, Africa and Australia. Her creative work - whether sound-based, video installation or paintings – is a visceral response and analysis of what she explains as her social mythology. Born in rural Victoria, Australia, 1983. Currently living in Desa Pandan, Kuala Lumpur.

4. Upon returning to Malaysia in 2006, Ng Chor Guan collaborated actively with theatrical artists and choreographers diversify his works into a new era. To name a few, theatre productions include Antigone, Okiku- A Tragedy Retold, The Lost and The Ecliptic and Break-ing. Dance collaborations include The Curse of The Forbidden Palace, Whispers of Love, The ‘R’ Adventurous Drift and Ballet Nutcracker. With all his hard to show for, it wasn’t a surprise that he was nominated for 2008 Cameronian Arts Awards Most Promising Artist.

+++++

EMACM Plays in Kuala Lumpur Contemporary Music Festival 2009

EMACM will perform on this Saturday, 28th at 11pm at The Annexe Gallaries, as part of the KL Contemporary Music Festival 2009. We'll be performing a 7 minute structured improvisation music piece by Ng Chor Guan, with voice (Kok Siew Wai), clarinet (Tham Kar Mun), bass clarinet (Yong Yandsen) and laptop (Ng Chor Guan).
Musicians and music lovers out there, do support your local revolution! :-)

http://www.malaysiancomposers.com/klcmf09


++++++

KL CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FEST 2009
REMIXED: City After Dark
Music Concert
Sat 28 Nov, 11pm
Presented by Malaysian Composers Collective & Goethe ¨CInstitut Malaysia

Admission by donation

Presented as part of the KL Contemporary Music Fest 2009 programme, this special late night electroacoustic concert breaks the conventions of classical music performance by embracing new media of expressions such as computers, amplification, visual arts and poetry.

Experience classical music music in a different light with a brand new work "Ageha. Tokyo" by exciting Hong Kong composer Sampson Young, along with works by composers from the region including our very own Ng Chor Guan and Goh Lee Kwang. Presented by the Hong Kong New Music Ensemble together with local performers Jerome Kugan, Experimental Musicians and Artists Co-operative Malaysia and more.

+

PROGRAMME

"Fire" for bass clarinet and computer (2007) - Jiradej Setabundhu, Thailand
"Kat & Shadow" for CD playback with poems and illustrations (2009) - Jerome Kugan, Malaysia
"Polygon" for clarinet, bass clarinet, voice and laptop (2009) - Ng Chor Guan, Malaysia
"Frissons" for viola and live electronic (2009) - Hoh Chung Shih, Singapore
“光月家客” for CD playback, video & performance art (2009) - Chong Keat Aun (Ji-An) & Neuyabe, Malaysia
“God Of Small Things” for 4 musicians (2009) - Goh Lee Kwang, Malaysia
“6ta” for laptop (2009) - Otto Sidharta, Indonesia
“La 3 Rua Reverses” for oboe, cello and tape (2009) - Boonrut Sirirattanapan, Thailand
“Ageha. Tokyo” for amplified violin, electronics and video - Samson Young, Hong Kong
“Temazcal” for Maracas and tape - Javier Alvarez, Mexico
“Dancing Queen” for audio visual algorithmic composition (2009) - Jiradej Setabundhu, Thailand

++++

SiCKL Open Lab 009: Pre-Halloween Party

SiCKL Open Lab 009 is back with full blown this October! Our beloved friend, dancer Donna Miranda, visiting from Manila, will be performing her multimedia piece, "Listen, little brother", together with guitarist Aziz. The Self-conscious Acronym(ed) Man is back with more incredible stories and love+hate songs for us to sing along ("really?!") . Azmyl Yunor (guitar), Yong Yandsen (sax) & Kok Siew Wai (voice) are going to play together as an improv trio for the first time. There'll be a mysterious stand-up comedian
appearing at SiCKL this night ... Salute to Mr. A.M. Yusof! An act that you surely don't want to miss!

So, by all means, COME OUT on this Friday 23rd October, 9pm sharp!

Admission with donation.

Aziz has donated an excellent kuih lapis from Kuching!


Add: SiCKL (Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur)
No. 75, Amber Business Plaza
Jln. Jelawat 1, 56100 Cheras, KL.
(1 minute walk from CHERAS LRT station)

Contact: Siew Wai: kokbuffalo@yahoo. com
Yandsen: 012-9198031

Improv Lab @ FINDARS: 004

Come join us with the most exciting line-up for the Improv Lab series with Lena Ang, Low Shee Hoe, Fahmi Fadzil, Goh Lee Kwang & more!

Come witness and explore with us the endless possibilities of improvisation!

Players Of The Month:
Lena Ang (dance)
Low Shee Hoe (dance)
Fahmi Fadzil (lighting)
Goh Lee Kwang (electronic music)
Yong Yandsen (woodwind)
Kok Siew Wai (voice & objects)
* incorporate with visual art by Lim Keh Soon and a special performance by Mark Teh

Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009
Time: 9:00pm - 10:30pm
Location: Findars Space, Central Market Annexe
Jalan Hang Kasturi
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.


Improv Lab @ Findars is a project initiated by SiCKL (Studio in Cheras, KL) as a monthly art laboratory for artists, musicians and performers who are interested in improvisation and collaboration.

For more information, please contact:
Siew Wai: kokbuffalo@yahoo.com / swsuny@hotmail.com
Yandsen: 012-9198031 / yandsen@yahoo.com
http://emacm.blogspot.com
http://findars.blogspot.com

WEEKLY SONIC
19th May 2009
8:30 - 9:30
FINDARS SPACE

Composition Studies
by Goh Lee Kwang

Improv Lab @ FINDARS: 002

Dear friends,

Come join us for this monthly feast with art improvisation!

Daredevils for this month's Improv Lab 002:

AU SOW YEE (video artist/filmmaker)
Fahmi Fadzil (performer)
Goh Lee Kwang (musician)
JacAlMap (musicians)


Date & Time: Thursday, 14 May 2009 @ 8:30pm
Venue: Findars Space, Lot 2.01, Central Market Annexe, KL.

FREE ADMISSION!


*Improv Lab @ FINDARS is a monthly art laboratory for artists, musicians & performers who are interested in improvisation and collaboration.

For booking and information, please contact SiCKL:
Siew Wai: kokbuffalo@yahoo.com / swsuny@hotmail.com
Yandsen: 012-9198031
http://emacm.blogspot.com
http://findars.blogspot.com

MONTH'S END MUSIC AT FINDARS: April 2009

MONTH'S END MUSIC AT FINDARS

Tuesday @ 8:30pm, 28 April 2009
Yandsen + Azmyl Yunor
Special Guest: Self Conscious Acronym(ed) Man

Thursday @ 8:30pm, 30 April 2009
Reflex Reactions (Yandsen & Siew Wai)
Special Guest: Self Conscious Acronym(ed) Man

See you there!

SiCKL Open Lab 006: 25th April 2009

SiCKL OPEN LAB (SOL) 006: February 2009

Date & Time: Saturday, 25th April 2008 @ 8:30pm

Venue: Studio in Cheras, KL (SiCKL)
No. 75, 3rd Floor (top floor),
Amber Business Plaza,
Jalan Jelawat 1,
Cheras 56100, Kuala Lumpur. (1 minute walk from Cheras LRT Station, Star Line)

Attire: Casual and light cuz we are HOT!

ADMISSION BY DONATION

Contact:
Siew Wai: kokbuffalo@yahoo.com / swsuny@hotmail.com
Sow Yee: truely_au@hotmail.com
http://emacm.blogspot.com

For driving directions: Yandsen 012-9198031

Line-up:

'Metamorphose' by Alan McLean & Goh Lee Kwang
Alan McLean and Goh Lee Kwang will perform a short extract from a work in progress 'Metamorphose' for electric guitar and sound mixer.

Goh Lee Kwang grew up in Penang and studied visual art at the Malaysian Institute of Art in Kuala Lumpur. His sound work includes sample-based pieces and installations. He adopted the stereo DJ mixer with feedback loop as his main instrument in 2004 and performed extensively across western Europe. His awards and honors include the Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Klangraum Fellowship, and Künstlerhäuser Worpswede Fellowship 2008.

Alan McLean studied Philosophy in his native Scotland and started playing electric guitar two years ago. On this occasion, the duo use visual art as a focus for their sound work and as a source of compositional structure. The music takes its name from a print by the Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher. Part devised, part improvisation, it exploits the sound possibilities of electronic feedback and simple guitar pedals.

Self Conscious Acronym(ed) Man (SCAM) with sappy love songs
Yet another mask that is worn to reveal never before seen fake unadultered emotions and heartbreak.

Silent Kheat (Electronic music)

Tomonari Nishikawa (Experimental Film)
Nishikawa started filmmaking in 2001 at SUNY Binghamton, where he pursued his BA in Cinema and Philosophy. His film and video pieces have been shown at major film festivals, including New York Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco International Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, and Berinale. Over the past years, Nishikawa made several film installation works using pinhole techniques, and such works have been exhibited at San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Still Motion in Toronto, and Headlands Center for the Arts. He serves as a Board of Directors for Canyon Cinema, a distribution company for experimental films, and works as a guest advisor of Yebisu International Festival for Arts. Nishikawa currently resides in Bangkok as an Asian Intellectual Fellowship from The Nippon Foundation, researching on experimental cinema in Southeast Asia.

Karen Johannesen (Experimental Film)
Graduated from San Francisco Art Institute, Karen Johannesen is an experimental filmmaker now based in Chicago. She works with small gauge films.

-------------

SiCKL OPEN LAB (SOL) is a bi-monthly art laboratory where artists come together to show individual’s work and form new collaboration. SOL has started since June 2008.

Dare to experiment! Surprise us and surprise yourself!

SOL happens bi-monthly on the last Saturday of the month. Please contact us to book a gig.

-----------

Improv Lab @ FINDARS

Featuring:

Yong Yandsen (musician)
Fahmi Fadzil (actor)
Azmyl Yunor (musician)
JacAlMap (musician)
Lärmpirat (musician, Austria)

SiCKL presents Improv Lab @ FINDARS as a monthly art laboratory for artists, musicians and performers who are interestedwho want to experiment with improvisation. In every lab, 4 artists will be featured to perform a short set each (15 mins). The lab will then end with a final jamming session by all artists. We encourage artists from different disciplines working together. Artists from all disciplines are welcome, as long as you can work out a way for yourself to improvise with your art medium.

Improvisation is indeed the first stage of any creation, and then composition comes in when we arrange our ideas, elaborate some and abandon the others. There is immense energy and creativity in the improvisation stage where rules are constantly being created, worked on and abandoned. In improvised art and music, this process goes on and on, moving into the unknown, of unexpected possibilities. Improvisation requires a great deal of concentration, communication, interaction and awareness among the performers because there will be no “2nd take”. There is a certain urgency in improvisation as the final performance/art product itself because you create as you think, simultaneously, and the process IS the final product itself. As improvisers, we have to be alert, ready and respond quickly when we create this “NOW” together. Many contemporary artists, dancers and musicians have explored improvisation in great depth. Free jazz musicians such as
Peter Broztmann, Hank Bennik and Derek Bailey; dancers such as Merce Cunningham, have all worked extensively with improvisation.

Come join us on the FIRST THURSDAY of every month and let’s create our own very unique moment together, NOW!

We create NOW, and NOW we CREATE!

For more information, please contact:
Siew Wai: kokbuffalo@yahoo.com
Yandsen: 012-9198031

Video Art from Japan: A Screening & Discussion

THE COOLEST APRIL FOOL EVER!

SiCKL presents
"Video Art from Japan: A Screnning & Discussion"

Wednesday, 1st April 2009 @ 8pm

MEET THE ARTISTS!

Katsuyuki HATTORI and SATO Hiroaki will appear in person at SiCKL for a discussion about their artworks and a Malaysia + Japan exchange program that they are initiating.


Venue:
SiCKL (Studio in Cheras, KL)
No. 75, 3rd Floor (top floor),
Amber Business Plaza, Jalan Jelawat 1,
Cheras 56100, Kuala Lumpur.
(1 minute walk from Cheras LRT Station, Star Line)

FREE ADMISSION, DONATION WELCOME

Contact:
Siew Wai: kokbuffalo@yahoo.com
Sow Yee: truely_au@hotmail.com
For driving directions: Yandsen 012-9198031
http://emacm.blogspot.com

*****

Katsuyuki HATTORI, (B. 1973) is a Japanese video artist based in Tokyo. Hattori, who graduated from San Francisco Art Institute, co-founded several important video art organizations in Tokyo such as Tokyo: Spread Video Art Project, Art Lab, Goldenshit and Video Art Center. He has collaborated with choreographers, contemporary dancers, poets and musicians. Hattori’s work has been shown in Spain, Canada, Ireland, Australia, France, Mexico, China and Indonesia, amongst many other coutries.

SATO Hiroaki, (b.1962) is a video artist cum musician who graduated from Nihon University, College of Art. He is also active in teaching video making and theory of image technology at the Nippon Engineering College and Nihon University College of Art, Department of Cinema. Sato also writes, mostly on video art.

Kotaro TANAKA, (b. 1979) in Tokyo, Japan. Tanaka is a filmmaker, involves in the VJ Bysexual Team and a part-time film lecturer. Tanaka is the representative for Tokyo Eizo Brig and a member of SVP2 (Spread Videoart Project 2). He exhibits his works at home and abroad. Tanaka’s main theme in his works is "gazing". He is trying to expand the meaning of it and the concept of it. Tanaka is also interested in narrating "stories" without common scripts, by just vision and audito.

******

Month's End Music @ Findars: 26 March @ 8:30pm

This Thursday night, come watch duo Reflex Reactions (Yandsen & Siew Wai) and the Self Conscious Acronym(ed) Man at FINDARS, Annexe.

Yandsen Plays In Mosaic Festival Singapore 2009

Free Jazz
Game of Patience (Singapore)
http://www.mosaicmusicfestival.com/2009/microsite/d3.html

Led by Australian percussionist and electronic musician Darren Moore, Game of Patience creates freely improvised music combining free jazz with elements of electronica. The group features Brian O'Reilly (USA) on bass/electronics and Yandsen (Malaysia) on saxophone.

15 Mar, Sun
7.15 - 8pm,
9.15 - 10pm
Concourse

SicKL OPEN LAB (SOL) 005: February 2009

Post Valentine Special Edition!

Date & Time: Saturday, 28^th February 2008 @ 7:30pm

Venue: Studio in Cheras, KL (SicKL)

No. 75, 3rd Floor,

Amber Business Plaza,

Jalan Jelawat 1,

Cheras 56100, Kuala Lumpur . (1 minute walk from Cheras LRT Station, Star Line)

Attire: Casual and light cuz we are HOT! (This is not a joke)

ADMISSION BY DONATION

Contact:

Siew Wai: kokbuffalo@yahoo.com / swsuny@hotmail.com

Sow Yee: truely_au@hotmail.com

http://emacm.blogspot.com

For driving directions: Yandsen 012-9198031

Line-up Acts:

“Code” – Contemporary music composition by Ng Chor Guan

Ng Chor Guan (composer, laptop and electronics)

Ng Chor Guan gains his Bachelor of Arts (HONS) Music in Composition from Middlesex University in London . His diverse professional credits include music for concert, film, theater, dance, exhibition and multimedia. His music has been performed in a wide variety of mediums including orchestral, choral, chamber, and electronic music. Ng has participated in theatrical productions such as Antigone, Okiku- A Tragedy Retold, The Lost and The Ecliptic, Break-ing., The Curse of The Forbidden Palace , Whispers of Love, The ‘R’ Adventurous Drift and Nutcracker. He was nominated for 2008 Cameronian Arts Awards Most Promising Artist.

Yong Yandsen (bass clarinet)

Co-founder of SicKL, Yandsen is the veteran lead singer and band leader of the explosive Chinese rock band MoXuan who has now ventured into the realm of contemporary, music, free jazz and improvised music. He has acted in the independent short film by Kok Kai Foong, “Yandsen Can Do”. Besides making music, Yandsen is very good with driving directions.

Tham Kar Mun (clarinet)

Member of EMACM (Experimental Musicians & Artists Corporative Malaysia), Tham is the veteran guitarist of Chinese rock band ChongYang. In recent years, he has been exploring music in contemporary composition, improvisation and free jazz. Tham reads Lao Tze and likes to drink tea, slowly.

Kok Siew Wai (voice)

Co-founder of SicKL, a video artist and voice improviser. Siew Wai has spent much time organizing art events nowadays. She wanted to be a rocker during her teenage years but it never happened. Instead, she has been inspired greatly by composer Pauline Oliveros’ Deep Listening practice during her 7-year stay in USA , where it is a total contrast to rock.

JacAl Map – Experimental sounds
JacAl Map is a duo established in 2007. Jack is a musician and sound engineer while Alison is a student in New Era College Drama and Visuals Department. Their works uses sound extracted from everyday lives to create and explore sound that has an imaginative quality.

Ben Kong – Stand-up Show
He thinks he is funny, we all think he is funny. He doesn't want to reveal too much about himself in case he is not funny. Come meet the mystery man and ask him yourself!

Video Art:

“ 24/7”

By Alison Khor

Alison is currently a student in New Era College Drama and Visuals Department.

“Everyday is Everyday” (inspired by a poem by Tan Yan Tee/ work in progress)

By Au Sow Yee

Graduated from San Francisco Art Institute, Sow Yee’s is a video and experimental filmmaker, she also does multimedia design for local theatre occasionally. Sow Yee currently lectures in New Era College Drama and Visuals Department. Her works explore light and visual imageries as an organic element in time and space, and also reveals the abstract quality of everyday lives

Azmyl Yunor – Guitar Improv

Azmyl Yunor is folker. He plays acoustic guitar, harmonica and sings his own songs. He records those songs and sells them. He also plays electric guitar, drums, keyboard, piano and the concertina. He plays in several bands. He is also a street busker whenever the need arises. When he is not, he teaches for a living and lives to learn. He is also conscious of the confining nature of popular music format and structure. When needed, he takes a vacation.

Self Conscious Acronym Man

Yet another mask which The Aziz wears to reveal never before seen fake unadultered emotions and heartbreak.

++++++

SicKL OPEN LAB (SOL) is a bi-monthly art laboratory where artists come together to show individual’s work and form new collaboration.

Dare to experiment! Surprise us and surprise yourself!

SOL happens bi-monthly on the last Saturday of the month. Please contact us to book a gig.

++++++

GOH LEE KWANG
Releases

Wiring My Ear To The Ground (sample)
New Directions (net label)
http://www.geocities.com/herbalrecords/HON.html

Wiring My Ear To The Ground 8xcdr
Private release
http://www.geocities.com/crackspallation/cdwiring.html
Review: http://www.thewatchfulear.com/

PM (Goh Lee Kwang / Olaf Hochberz)
Live Actions - Berlin cdr
http://www.geocities.com/pmglkoh/

GOH LEE KWANG
Concerts, February 2009


Solo
03 Feb, 7:30pm
Findars Space,
Central Market, KL.


Solo
10 Feb, 7:30pm
Findars Space,
Central Market, KL.


Solo
17 Feb, 7:30pm
Findars Space,
Central Market, KL.


With Lee Swee Keong (My) & Zheng Zi Ru (Cn)
"The Red and White Fairly Tales"
21 Feb, 8:30pm
Indecine,
KLPac, Sentul, KL.


Solo
24 Feb, 7:30pm
Findars Space,
Central Market, KL.


With Nyobakan
25, 26, 27 & 28 Feb, 8:00pm
Actors Studio Bangsar,
Bangsar, KL.

GOH LEE KWANG

Concerts, January 2009

Solo

06 Jan, 7:30pm

Findars Space,

Central Market, KL.

Solo

13 Jan, 7:30pm

Findars Space,

Central Market, KL.

Solo

18 Jan, 12:30pm

KLPac, Sentul, KL.