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Japanese free improvisation maestro
\nShare the stage with Taiwanese musicians
\nFreely explore new sound art landscapes
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\nand try to keep our roots in a contemporary way.”- Kazuhisa UCHIHASHI
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Kazuhisa UCHIHASHI is a Japanese free improvisation maestro. He is a frequent guest at major music festivals all over the world, and this time he is traveling to Taiwan to share the stage with local musicians. How will these musicians and their various instruments create arrangements out of the collision of different sounds? How will they display the sensitivity needed to work together yet express their individual styles while improvising music? How will they seek similarities in differences and differences in similarities? There are endless possibilities in free improvisation. It can only be experienced in person, as the immediate feedback given to the musicians by the audience will be reflected in the subsequent performance of the music.
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Guitar, Daxophone|Kazuhisa UCHIHASHI
\n\nBorn in Osaka, Japan in 1959, UCHIHASHI plays a huge variety of music, having a distinctive musical voice in rock, jazz and improvised music. He composes widely for film, theatre and dance, including 30 years of work with the Japanese theatre group Ishinha. Recently he composed 2 theatre pieces at Muncher Kammerspiele.He has worked worldwide with musicians including Hand Reichel,Fred Frith, Ned Rothenberg,Wayne Horvitz, Roger Turner, Shelley Hirsch and Christian Marclay and many many others. He organized the legendary Japanese power trio Altered States, active for over 30 years, which also worked inside Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero in the 1990s. In recent years, he has focused on pan-asian identity in music. Since 2010 he's traveled to Indonesia, Thailand and China to create special collaborative projects with local musicians. Mahanyawa is one of the best collaboration unit with SENYAWA from Indonesia. His special instrument, the daxophone, is a creation of the late guitarist/inventor, Hans Reichel, who was a creative partner of UCHIHASHI. Now he is based in Berlin and trying new project here.
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Piano|Shih-Yang Lee
\n\nLEE Shih-Yang has been dedicated his time to improvised music. He has collaborated with artists from different fields, including painting, theatre, multi-media, and dancing. He is the founder and co-leader of the improvisation ensemble, Ka Dao Yin. LEE has won the Taiwan Garden India Music Award and Golden Melody Award of Traditional ARTS AND Music several times. LEE’s live recording with Fred van Hove “Galactic Alignment” has won the New York City Jazz Record “Honorary Mention of the New Releases of 2013”. LEE has played with drummer legend Sabu Toyozumi from Japan, pioneer of European free jazz pianist Fred van Hove from Belgium and many others including Joelle Leandre, Sainkho Namtchylak, Jaap Blonk , Koichi Makigami, Hans Koch, Audrey Chen and etc. LEE is the artist director and one of the founders of “Taiwan International Improvised Music Festival”.
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Vocal|Alice Hui-Sheng CHANG
\nBorn 1984 in Changhua, Taiwan, Alice graduated from RMIT University’s MFA program (2006). Alice has also completed a MA in Experiential and Creative Arts Practices at the MIECAT Institute (2014). Since 2003, Alice has performed across countries in Asia, Oceania, and Europe. She focus on developing improvised vocal performance, and often collaborate with other artists around the world. In prompting vocal performance from audience, she treats it as small social experiments in the diversity in human social interactions. She found people in improvising, with language removed, they still have their own personality and personal cultural attachments. The space we are in plays a core part of influencing how we exist/interact. Alice has been involved in supported residencies in Australia, Taiwan, France, Portugal and Austria. Alice is now based in Tainan, one of the founders of sound space – Ting Shuo Hear Say. She works as a freelance artist, and a therapeutic arts practitioner.
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\nSoprano|Chien-Chun Lin
\nBiography Soprano, Chien-Chun Lin was born in Taiwan, where she was awarded three years government scholarship in 2009. Her PhD research is about Contemporary Vocal Music and Theatre Music at Goldsmiths under the supervision of Dr.Patricia Alessadrini. Lin is one of the few singers in Taiwan who has a classical trained background meanwhile is involved in pop and modern music as well. In April 2020, her second recital “Contemporary Bel Canto Series II” will be held in the Taipei National Auditorium. Under the tuition of Scottish Soprano Nan Christie, Lin’s operatic roles including Verdi’s Gilda (Rigoletto 2010), Puccini’s Mimi (La Bohème 2011), Verdi’s Violetta (La Traviata 2012), Britten’s Tytania (The Midsummer Night’s Dream 2013) and Mozart’s Queen of The Night(Die Zauber Flute 2014) at OperaGold annual production in London. Chien-Chun Lin teaches as a vocal tutor at the Music Dep. Of Goldsmiths since 2012. Currently, she is teaching music performance in Taiwan University of Technology and Nanhua University since 2017.
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Bamboo flute virtuoso / soloist|LIN HSIAO-FENG
\n\nBamboo flute virtuoso / soloist / improviser / Lin's Cultur Artistic Director
\n\nLin Hsiao-Feng was born in Taipei, Taiwan. Lin is an active Bamboo flute virtuoso, soloist and improviser. Lin plays Chinese Traditional Music, world music, free improvisation and experimental avant-garde in the contemporary music world. In recent years, Lin is committed to a variety of artistic collaboration including poetry, calligraphy, painting, dance, performance art, Chinese martial arts, rock, electronic music, experimental music as well as free improvisation.
\nIn addition to performing numerous worldwide traditional wind instruments, Lin often participates in all kinds of arts and cultural activities.
\nSince 2011, Lin has organized events and invited artists from a wide range of genres.
\nIn 2014, Lin has established the instrumental brand “Wu-Wei Chinese Bamboo Flute Series” with aesthetics from Oriental Minimalism. In 2015, Lin was invited to “1st Taiwan International Improvisation Music Festival” and “1st Chinese Bamboo Flute Festival.”
\nIn 2016, Lin curated and performed the National Recital Hall interdisciplinary program “Zhuang Zhou Butterly Dream” with multimedia installation, improvised music, experimental sound, dance and performance art.
\nIn 2017, Lin was selected as “New Taipei City Music Star” with the program “Jiang-Hu Forgetfulness, Lin Hsiao-Feng Bamboo flute Concert.” Lin was also the director of “Taiwan & Malaysia Collaborative Art Crossover Exchange Project – About Human, Sound and Ocean.”In 2019, Lin was selected as “O-Bank Tiding Music Star”.
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Didgeridoo|Da Kung
\nBeing a professional Taiwanese Didgeridoo performer and organizer of Didgeridoo Taiwan, Da Kung is a musician who is good at multi-ethnic instruments and pop instruments. In the recent years, he has devoted himself in creating world music and theatre music. He founded Wanderoots in Kaohsiung to share and promote more world music and environment friendly lifestyles.
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Percussionist|Sayun Chang
\n\nPercussionist Sayun Chang’s musical skills range from traditional and contemporary classical to many diverse disciplines of world music, and interdisciplinary collaborations. She often dedicates herself to music outreach for schools in rural areas and cultural education for aboriginal tribes. She holds degrees from The Hartt School, Taipei National University of the Arts. Currently, she is a DMA candidate of the Hartt School.
\n\nIn recent years, she has recorded with many great improvisers in New York City on albums including The Downtown Avengers, Dreams Beyond (George Spanos), Néo (Kaoru Watanabe), and Breathing Taiwan (Renato Diz and Maria Quintanilla).
\n\nIn 2017, she was selected into Onebeat program, an US department of State founded music exchange program. Together with the other fellows from 18 different countries, she performed and gave workshops to the local communities in four different states in the west coast. The festivals she performed in recent years include Mostly Mozart, Festival de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, Pittsburg Festival of New Music, International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Make Music New York, JoengJu International Sori Festival, Tainan Arts Festival, New Taipei City International Drum Arts Festival, World Music Festival @ Taiwan. Currently, she is a member of Spectro 7, and Huang Wei Jie’s Submontane Band.
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Singer|Balai \x3c!--[endif]--\x3e
\n\nDisplaced Paiwan musician Balai is an indigenous urban singer-songwriter of the new generation in Taiwan. His songs are created from his indigenous blood and soul. His music is infused with the spirits of his identity and the land. Balai sings with an ancient soul that still carries purity and innocence. He creates a historical identification for the new indigenous youth which will never be defeated.
\n\nIn December of 2015 Balai released his first solo album “The Modern Ancient”, which received enormous positive response. In the next year he won the best Indigenous Singer at the 27th Golden Melody Awards. He was also nominated in five categories (including Best New Artist, Best Album and Single), and went on to win the Best Alternative Single at the Golden Indie Music Awards with the song “Soar”. Balai has performed many times in Taiwan and abroad. His live performances are endearing and powerful and not to be missed.
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