Taipei Sound Group
台北聲音小組
Source: From Student Movements to the Academy — A Brief History of Taiwan’s *Noise Magazine*/Sound Art Scene
From: Music Conspiracy Notes
Date: July 17, 2006Author: Lo Yueh-chuan
Dajuin Yao began creating new music and organizing experimental ensembles from the 1970s. From 1997 he gathered young avant-garde musicians from various places, and in 2003 founded the “Taipei Sound Unit” and the “China Sound Unit” — mobile structural advance organizations for auditory cognition research and creation, conducting surveillance, reflection, collection, organization, analysis, preservation, deconstruction, and re-contextualization of sonic entities across Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China.
Members of the Sound Unit later all became representatives of the new generation of avant-garde music in their respective locations. The Taipei Sound Unit’s members were Li Yueh-ling (Rio), Chen Li-wei (Wei), and Hsieh Chung-chi (Wolfenstein). Their creative form centred on musique concrète, using field recordings as primary material.
External Links
- Dajuin Yao
- Dajuin Yao: Close Your Eyes, Listen to the Sounds of the City (Art World)
- Pre-Taste, Sub-Taste, Anything But Avant-Garde — A Conversation with Dajuin (Dan Hong’s Fine Rain)
- Seeing Sound Within Photography (RINSE)