Kandala Commune Founded
「旃陀羅公社」成立
Source: Nostalgia Is the Most Ancient Sampling: Thirty Minutes Before the Curtain Rises on Kandala Commune
From: Reverberations: Explorations in Taiwan’s Postwar Sound Culture, pp. 226–231
Date: May 2015 · Author: Chang Yu-sheng
“Kandala Commune” (旃陀羅公社, abbreviated K社) was founded in 2009 by Chang Yu-sheng, then a doctoral student in the Graduate Institute of Political Science at NCCU. “Kandala” is a Hindu term for untouchables — people entirely outside the four-caste system, a thoroughgoing Other or异类. Kandala Commune holds small-scale performances every two months and continues to release CDs of improvised, noise, and avant-garde sound work even as the physical record market has collapsed — representing a kind of sound that exists outside the academy in Taiwan’s sound art landscape.
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External Links
- Sound Scene — Taiwan: The “Divergence” and “Reflection” of Sound Art/Music 2000–2010 (Wu Mu-ching)
- Kandala Records (official website)