Rainy Night Flowers is not only one of the earliest modern folk song in Taiwan, but also a profound, complex Taiwanese song that has stayed highly popular. The release of this song in 1934 coincided with the invention and popularization of various sorts of sound apparatus. Sound technological devices such as microphones, radios, recorders, gramophone…
Sound practice is the term this project uses when invoking all those who participate in the production of experimental, electronic, noise music and sound art. These practitioners share the same spirit of experimentation in media and discipline. It is a sustained practice, while strangely in a constant state of flux. It is a perpetually emergent…
Feel the Space Feel the Space began as a street performance that was live-streamed by the artist on YouTube, intending to let the audience get notifications on their portable devices that “something else is happening in this particular space.” The artist selected a place in the city where he lives in and transformed into a…
The Infinite Hip-Hop Song is an algorithmic hip-hop generator that produces a never-ending hip-hop song using pre-produced lyrics, vocals, beats, basslines and melodies. It is a logic, a series of randomized paths, a virtual machine driven by human production, a structure that yearns to be free and controlled at the same time. This is not…
Drinking from Spring of Liquid Love is a spatial representation of a compositional process that emerges through negotiations between media, technology, and musicians. Taking inspiration from more than 10 hours of music collected from the internet with the title of “Liquid Love”, a new song was made in collaboration with Japanese singer songwriter mmm (me/my/mo)….
The LED Future portrays a potential future in which only artificial light sources exist; this work would be directed towards the universe where the main source of natural light (the sun) disappears through the glittering artificial light generated from the LED, OLED, or Micro LED panels. By doing so, it aims to delineate the subject…
Love in the Clouds: Welcome to the Liquid Modern World! Amy Cheng (Curator) Dear visitors, welcome to the “liquid modern world!” Liquid Love, the title of this exhibition, owes its inspiration to the book by Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Love: On the Frailty of Human Bonds (2003). This exhibition re-thinks and explores the experiences…
Curators : Taiwan : Jeph Lo ─ Rainy Night Flowers and the Evolution of the Sound Apparatus in Taiwan / Chao-Ming Teng ─ After All These Year, / Talking Drums Radio the Philippines : Dayang Yraola─ Taginting, A Resonant Community of Sound Practice Singapore : Chee-Wai Yuen─Melantun Records Pop-up: Electronic Dreams of Tsao Chieh Ujikaji…
Talking Drums Radio http://talkingdrums.twCurated by TheCube Project SpaceRadio studio designer: Mao What the “Talking Drum” Exactly Is In the 19th century, on a voyage to Africa, British naval officer William Allan discovered that the local inhabitants could convey highly poetic messages by beating the tribal drum with drumsticks insofar as to create varying rhythm and…
Rainy Night Flowers, a song that was born in 1934, was then one of the most popular songs in Taiwan. Since its release, there have been more than 30 singers who have released the song, with a dozen versions in different languages. Widely performed in political and memorial campaigns, this song elicits nostalgia and a…