Electronic Primal Sound Counterattack (Taichung)

Source: Taiwan’s Sound Liberation Movement
From: 2011 Venice Biennale Taiwan Pavilion — Visitor Guide
Date: April 2011 · Author: Jeph Lo

Chen Shih-ti (*Noise Magazine* Steve) — who had worked variously as a newspaper deliveryman, plumber, construction worker, record-shop clerk, bartender, and DJ — was drawn into the late-1990s rave wave in Taiwan and began organising DIY guerrilla-style rave parties with friends at locations including inside a barber shop and outside a roast-duck restaurant. After attending Wang Fu-jui’s noise art performance “Static Riot” in 2001, he decided to pivot toward noise art. In 2002 he and friends founded “Maltose Brewing Studio” (Malt Craft Studio) in Taichung — one of the few hubs for experimental electronic music promotion outside Taipei. In addition to making music, it sold rare records, taught instrument playing and DJ technique, and organised Taichung’s first noise art festival, “Electronic Sound Counterattack.”

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• Chen Shih-ti (Taipei Artist Village — Treasure Hill)