Performance｜Parallel Asteroid
Performer: Parallel Asteroid
Guests: Torturing Nurse, Acid, MAI MAI
Date: 2016.10.28 19:30-21:30
Organiser: Chronus Art Center
Supported by Austrian Consulate-General in Shanghai
Address: Building 18, No 50 Moganshan Road, Shanghai
About the Performers
Parallel Asteroid
Lan Cao - synthesizer
Gregor Siedl - saxophone, gamecalls, tubes
https://parallelasteroid.com/
Lan Cao and Gregor Siedl from Austria on saxophone, gamecalls and tubes. Parallel Asteroid have been touring extensively in Europe, Japan, Brasil and Vietnam.
Parallel Asteroid have been featured at international festivals and concert venues around the world, amongst others – festival Krieg Singen at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, FIME-Festival Internacional de Música Experimental in São Paulo, Ftarri Tokyo, Porgy & Bess Vienna, Festival Ankunft Neue Musik Berlin, Strom Festival Cologne, Musiknacht in Cologne, Frischzelle Festival for Intermedial Performance, 5th anniversary Festival at Quiet Cue Berlin, Stadtgarten Cologne (Double concert with Zeena Parkins &Ikue Mori), Artists in Residence Programm:Hotel Pupik (Scheifling), Institut Francais Hanoi etc.
For their projects and cooperations,they have received grants from – Bundeskanzleramt für Kunst und Kultur, Österreichisches Kulturforum Tokyo, Kulturamt Niederösterreich, Österreichische Botschaft Hanoi, Institut Francais, ON-Neue Musik Köln, Ministerium für Kultur in Nordrhein-Westfalen (MFKJKS-NRW), Rhein-Energie Stiftung.
With their two educational projects and workshops in collaboration with Domdom Center for Experimental Music and Art in Hanoi, Parallel Asteroid has helped developing the music scene, educating and inspiring young musicians in Vietnam.
Torturing Nurse
April 25, 2004 to form forever.
The Harsh noise / pure noise group from Shanghai, China, has more than 200 performances in mainland China, Hong Kong,Taiwan, Japan, Denmark, Switzerland, France, Belgium and the United Kingdom; dozens of countries around the world The album includes more than 350 titles including albums, compilations, collaborations and compilations, including CDs, tapes, vinyls and CDs.
Runs its own CDR / Tape / Vinyl / T-Shirt format Noise Brand Shasha Records, Lathe Vinyl Format Noise Brand Sonic, Tape Format Noise Brand Life is absurd; Running Noise / Sound Series Performance NOIShanghai, Coarse Noise / Coarse Noise Wall / strong electric / grind noise series performance EarAgainstTheAmp !!!
Publishing, and co-production from the world, including: Incapacitants, K2, Government Alpha, Astro, Pain Jerk, GX Jupitter-Larsen, Sete Star Sept, Zbigniew Karkowski, etc., style is cross-domain extreme noise, Impromptu, grind core !!!!
2010 Torturing Nurse Participated in the My World IMAGES Contemporary Art Festival in Copenhagen, Denmark; participated in Hong Kong's Cut My Throat vol.1 concert in 2011; concert Against 2012 at Fukuoka: Fukuoka Extreme Music Festival, held in the same period inJapan, Oita, Osaka, Tokyo for 7-day tour;France, Marseille, Nantes, France, France, Lyon, Paris, Metz, 2013, Sonic Protest 2013, 8-day’s 7-day tour, Sound Art China, 2013 Shanghai sonar; In 2014 to participate in the Chinese sound art exhibition Sound Art China Shanghai sonar; in 2014 to participate in Taipei foreign voice Asia Noise Connection performance; in 2014 to participate in the British Newcastle TUSK Mini 2014 Music Festival, and in the same period to the London performance; 2015 Shanghai Biennale Noise Day performance; 2016 to participate in Hong Kong Kill The Silence: LUFF Does Hong Kong Death & Renewal broken life and death · extreme art festival.
Links：
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Acid
Male, living in Shanghai, like the experimental noise, because it can fly like a bird fly. Use of electric guitar, monolithic, he also used the audio recording of mobile phones, through these devices to head out of the sound.
MAI MAI
Ten years ago, MAI MAI formed a noise rock band “Muscle snog”，be vocal, guitarist and song-writer. Since 2008 he started running an experimental music plat-form: “R.E.S.O.”, in same year, he commenced his personal experimental music project using this pseudonym “MAI MAI”. During these last five years, “R.E.S.O.” has presented more than 20 concerts, and became the most important stage for Chinese and oversea musicians. As a filmmaker, MAI MAI had made many short film and video works. In 2013, his short film “Four Cowards” selected by the 43th Tampere International Short Film Festival (International Competition Section).
In 2015, MAI MAI and Jun-Y Ciao co-curating, collaborating with “Where is the Zeitgeist?” Editing Office and AM Art Space : a project focuses on sound art and supports artists exploring music practice —— “Windowless Scenery”.
