Review of the CHOPPA Festival 2008

from the Wire, March 2008



















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GOH LEE KWANG
EUROPEAN TOUR 2008
in support of his Good Vibrations CD














click to enlarge image and view all scheduled dates for the tour!

ROBIN FOX @
Annexe CM, 26th February, 8pm, $18

• Robin Fox(Australia) | website | myspace |
• Ang Song Ming (Singapore) | website |
  
• ANAM (Scotland)
• EMACM Collective | myspace |
  
• Akta Angkasa | website |
  

"Robin Fox is a Melbourne based sound and visual artist currently working with live digital media in improvised, composed and installation settings.

He creates audio-visual works for the cathode ray oscilloscope, which have been released on the DVD Backscatter (Synaesthesia Records). The DVD has screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival; Mittwoschule (Berlin); 8th International New Media Arts Festival (Riga) and TRANSIT Festival (Switzerland).

Live audiovisual performances have taken place across Europe including appearances at the Netmage Festival (Bologna); Wien Modern Festival (Vienna); Noise and Glamour Festival (Moscow) and Transacoustic Festival (Auckland). This work, in constant development, is currently being realised with a high-powered, audio controlled laser system with recent performances at the Institute for Modern Art (Brisbane); NIME06 (Paris); Wellington International Jazz Festival (New Zealand); Totally Huge New Music Festival (Perth); October Contemporary Festival (Hong Kong).

A major European tour took place in May/June 2007 with laser based presentations at Musique Action Festival (Nancy, France); VENN Festival (Bristol, UK); Music Genera Festival (Szczesin, Poland) and Neia Musik Festival (Mulhouse, France) among numerous other appearances. His recent installation work Volta has featured at the RoslynOxley9 Gallery and Orange Regional Art Gallery in 2006 and in 2007 featured at the Asian Art Biennale (Tapei).

Musically, he has performed with some of the world’s leading improvisers including Jon Rose, Tony Buck, Oren Ambarchi, Lasse Marhaug, Jerome Noetinger, Clayton Thomas (Album Substation released by Room40, 2005), Erkki Veltheim, Natasha Anderson and Sean Baxter among many others and has an ongoing collaborative duo with composer/performer Anthony Pateras. This duo is documented on Coagulate released through Synaesthesia in 2003 and Flux Compendium released on eMego in 2006. He is also a member of Beta-erko, a quartet recently released on Berlin based Quecksilber label.

Fox is a regular performer and speaker at festivals around Australia (What is Music, Liquid Architecture, Electrofringe, SOOB, NowNOW, Big Day Out) and performs regularly across Europe and Asia."

EMACM Collective @ CHOPPA Festival 2008
(erroneously billed and listed as "ECACM Collective")

The EMACM Collective are Yandsen, Azmyl Yunor, Tham Kar Mun, Kok Siew Wai and Goh Lee Kwang.

CHOPPA FESTIVAL
2008, Singapore
25th and 26th of January 2008 @ Flexible Performance Space, LASALLE

GOH LEE KWANG and the
EMACM Collective
(Tham Kar Mun, Yandsen, Azmyl Yunor, Boon, and Goh Lee Kwang)
are scheduled for the CHOPPA Festival in Singapore.

Goh Lee Kwang plays on the first day of the festival, the 25th;
and EMACM Collective on the second day, the 26th.

MANY THANKS TO DARREN MOORE FOR INVITING US!!

-- SYNOPSIS --

Since January 2007 C.H.O.P.P.A. has been the only regular improvised music series in Singapore presenting monthly concerts showcasing the underbelly of the Singapore and regional music scenes and giving a forum for sound artists and musicians to present their work.

C.H.O.P.P.A. turns 1!!
C.H.O.P.P.A. FESTIVAL 08 will mark 1 year of operations for the C.H.O.P.P.A. series that has been curated by Tim O’Dwyer and Darren Moore who are both originally from Australia and are current lecturers in Jazz and Pop music at LASALLE College of the Arts.

C.H.O.P.P.A. Improvised Music Festival will be truly international in 2008 bringing together 20 musicians from Japan, Malaysia, Sweden, Australia and Singapore featuring noise, electro-acoustic, lap-top, interactive sound art, free jazz and kraut rock.

The festival will run over two consecutive nights from Friday the 25th to Saturday the 26th of January at LASALLE College of the Arts with festival after-parties on each night featuring guest DJ’s around the corner upstairs at Blu Jaz in Bali Lane.

AZIZ & YANDSEN scheduled for

Oh Seven! Gone To Heaven

31st December, 2007 @ The Annexe, CM

Goh Lee Kwang, Good Vibrations

Album Launch – Video Installations – Retrospective concert

Internationally respected sound artist Goh Lee Kwang, who recently returned from a 10 city tour of Europe, has a new album! His first album in three years, it is called Good Vibrations – selected solo improvisation with stereo dj mixer, released on his own label, Herbal. Recorded from concerts and studios in London, Amsterdam, Paris, Stuttgart, Rotterdam, Krems and Kuala Lumpur, the tracks were selected for their closeness to the original sound (of the mixer) without any treatment. For this launch, Lee Kwang performs different sounds every night, with materials from all 8 years of his mercurial career. There will be two video installations (world premier) and a sound installation (" Internal Pleasures" 4th Edition).

Dates: Nov 29 (Thu) – Dec 2 (Sun), 2007

Time: 8.30pm nightly

Venue: The Old Cinema, The Annexe, Central Market, KL.

Entry: By minimum donation of RM15 (Adults), RM10 (Students)

For 4 nights: RM40 (adults), RM25 (students)

Booking: 03 2274 6542, 03 2070 1137

Boon and Tham Kar Mun are scheduled to play at this gig on the

1st of December
2nd Floor, CM Annexe, KL

GOOD VIBRATIONS 2nd solo exhibition
in Kuala Lumpur, malaysia.

site 1, REKA Art Space, NOV 15th - 28th.
Reka Art Space is located at
GL29 Block C Kelana Square,
17 Jalan SS7/26, Kelana Jaya.
Tel. no: 03-7880 5982
The gallery is open by appointment only.
Contact: Sek Thim
H/p: 017-872 7721, Email: sekthim@gmail.com

site 2, ANNEXE, Central Market Nov 29th - Dec 2nd (with live concert).
ANNEXE is located at
2nd Floor, Central Market,
Jalan Hang Kasturi,
Kuala Lumpur.
Contact: 03-2070 1137

Both sites will show 2 new video works by Goh Lee Kwang, and the 4th
realisation of the sound installation ""Internal Pleasures""
(http://www.geocities.com/internalpleasures/si.html).
Exhibition at ANNEXE includes 4 nights of live concert.

http://www.geocities.com/crosssitp/

"Crossing Over- from here to there, from there to here" from the Evolutionary Girls Club

Gallery Talk: 17 November, 3:00pm

Opening Night: 17 November, 7:30pm; local performances; light refreshment.

Exhibition: 17-19 November, 11am-7pm

Venue: Central Market Annexe, top floor, Gallery 1.

ALL FREE ADMISSION

The EGC is a collective of artists, activists, writers and scholars, who make art that deal with issues around voice, access and privilege through the making and exhibiting of art. They have exhibited in USA, Germany, Sweden, Ukraine, Croatia, Japan and more since 2001.

"Crossing Over- from here to there, from there to here" will be EGC's first appearance in South East Asia, where three representatives: Pamela S. Booker, Tara Smelt and Colleen Merlisz (USA) will be here in person. All artwork in this exhibition were created especially for this South East Asian tour to Malaysia and Singapore! You can check out the show catalog for this exhibition at:
http://www.lulu.com/content/

Art exhibited in this exhibition include digital prints, photographs, paintings and video installations. There will be an experimental video screening on the opening night. And don't miss the local performances on the opening night! Performing musicians and artists include Azmyl Yunor, Nyoba Kan (Lee Swee Keong, Ceacar Chong and Kuan Nam), Jerome Kugan, Estrella and DizzyFirefly.

Come check out the opening event on 17 November at 7:30pm with art, discussion, experimental video, music and performances!

http://www.evolutionarygirls.com/
http://evogirlscrossingover.blogspot.com/

This event is kindly supported by DA HUANG PICTURES and MATAHATI ART FUND and co-organized by SiCKL, RAP and The Annexe Galleries.

A collated list of recent releases by EMACM-ers
(either by way of their own music or recordings released through their self-run labels.)

Goh Lee Kwang and Kenji Siratori
BACTERIUM SYNDROME (CD, Herbal Records)
http://www.geocities.com/gohleekwang/bs.html

Eric Cordier
OSOREZAN: Selected field recording 1993 - 2006
(CD, Herbal Records)
http://www.geocities.com/herbalrecords/eo.html

Eric Cordier and Emmanuel Mieville
DISPOSITIF: CANAL SAINT-MARTIN
(CD, Xing-Wu)
http://www.xingwurecs.com

Furniture
THE TWILIGHT CHASES THE SUN
(CD reissue, Herbal Records)
http://www.geocities.com/herbalrecords/

Goh Lee Kwang
GOOD VIBRATIONS
(CD, Herbal Records)
http://www.geocities.com/goodvibrationscd/

Klangmutationen
WEIßE MESSE (Vinyl LP, Holy Mountain)
http://www.midheaven.com/artists/klangmutationen.html
http://www.holymountain.com/klangmutationen.html

You should be able to mail-order most of these recordings
via the labels themselves or Orient-Occident

Projek Wayang is proud to announce our latest public performance, almost in conjunction with Hari Raya festivities: Wayang Rakyat @ The Curve. Featuring Aziz Ali, Azmyl Yunor, and Fahmi Fadzil, with puppets by Fahmi Reza.

There will be two performances over four dates, with two workshops on introductory puppetmaking for kids.

30 September, 4.30pm - Sang Kancil and Sang Buaya
7 October, 4.30pm - Pak Pandir and the Bowl of Honey*
20 October, 2.30pm - Sang Kancil and Sang Buaya
21 October, 2.30pm - Pak Pandir and the Bowl of Honey*

(*title might change)

Synopses

Sang Kancil and Sang Buaya
One day, as he was walking around the jungle, Sang Kancil spots a grove of fruit trees across the river. As he tries to cross the river, he encounters the fearsome Sang Buaya, who is intent on eating the little mouse deer. What will Sang Kancil do to get at those fruit trees?

Pak Pandir and the Bowl of Honey
Mak Andih has grown tired of Pak Pandir’s loafing around the house, so she sends him out to gather things from the jungle that they could sell. Pak Pandir finds some honey, and bringing it home decides to eat it instead of selling it, against Mak Andih’s wishes. What becomes of Pak Pandir and his greedy ways?

HERBAL RECORDS
Bunch of old and new releases from Lee Kwang's Herbal Records.
Here are the new ones:
Eric Cordier - Osorezan
Furniture - The Twillight Chases The Sun (reissue)

Websites:
http://www.geocities.com/herbalrecords
http://www.myspace.com/herbalrecords

Yandsen, Kok Siew Wai, Aziz and Donna Miranda @ Annexe Central Market, Sound Riot

Notthatbalai Art Festival 2007 & SiCKL (Studio in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur) Presents:

Sound Riot!
Date & Time: 5th August, Sunday, 3pm
Venue: The Annexe Galleries, Lot 4.01, 2nd Floor, Central Market Annexe, Jalan Hang Kasturi, 50050 Kuala Lumpur.
For inquiries, please contact: Razman at 017.371.5641 or Yandsen at 012.919.8031

Showcasing some of the hottest local indie bands, expect rock, pop rock, rap, grunge, electroacoustics, experimental and a lot of noise! Participating bands include Shock System, Zealot Bulletin, Silent Scenery, Meteor Feather (Singapore), Bintang Bendehara, Dian Bang, Klaronika and Goh Lee Kwang (sound artist).