Electronic Music Workshop Event
電子音樂實習
Source: States of Sound: Chaos and Precision — 98 E.M.P. Electronic Music Practicum
From: ET@T News
Date: 1998/07/12 · Author: ET@T
The “Electronic Music Practicum” event was organised by “Electric Dissolve Body” (電解體), whose performers that day included Dino, Zero & Sound Liberation Organisation, Tanaka Yo, and Ying Wei-min (Hsiao Ying of Jia Tzu). Electric Dissolve Body was a collective dedicated to connecting electronic music with sound performance; they had previously organised the first Ragged Life Festival (1994) and the Air Rupture Festival (1995). The day’s performances brought together different sonic experiments from Taiwanese and Japanese artists: Dino triggered explosive sound using simple mixing tools; Zero & Sound Liberation Organisation coupled precision instruments with physical performance; Ying Wei-min delivered his characteristically Taiwanese-flavoured talk-show “Why Won’t the Rain Stop.”
Japanese artist Tanaka Atau controlled both image and sound via the hyper-instrument Bio-Muse, whose technically precise performance left audiences stunned and to some degree shaped the subsequent trajectory of “sound art” in Taiwan.
Tanaka Atau at the Electronic Music Practicum (excerpted from Break Weekly; photo: Chen Ya-wen)
(Video source: ET@T Audio-Visual Archive)
