Zero and Sound Liberation Organization Founded
零與聲音解放組織成立
Source: Zero and Sound Liberation Organisation
From: Zero and Sound Liberation Organisation official website
The “Zero and Sound Liberation Organisation” (ZSLO, or Zero Sound) was Taiwan’s first noise group, with members Lin Ch’i-wei (Fu Jen French Department), Liu Hsing-yi (Fu Jen German Department), and Ch’en Chia-ch’iang (Fu Jen Philosophy Department); Liu Po-li joined in a later phase. Zero Sound moved between avant-garde art and underground music creation. Since its founding in 1992, it has released self-produced cassettes and CDs — including Taiwan’s first self-produced, self-published, and self-distributed “noise” album. In its performances, it challenged audiences through “low-degree control” and anti-art performances saturated with violence and sexuality, provoking fierce condemnation from the Taiwan arts community and mainstream media.
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- From Student Movements to the Academy — A Brief History of Taiwan’s *Noise Magazine*/Sound Art Scene (Lo Yueh-ch’üan)
- If the New Doesn’t Come, the Old Will Also Perish — Lin Ch’i-wei on the Life and Death of Taiwan’s *Noise Magazine* Movement (Yu Wei)
- *Noise Magazine* and the Art of Summoning — Lin Ch’i-wei (Yu Wei)