33EMYBW

Gooooose

王长存(AYRTBH) + DUDU

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33EMYBW:

33EMYBW is a Shanghai-based artist with a penchant for peculiar, unsettling sounds. Many of their self-released tracks, such as “EMSYGYDL”, feature spurts of alien timbres, distorted vocal samples, and light, lilting rhythms.

 In 2017, 33EMYBW also shared a three-track release entitled MEDUSA. It opens with broken, club-oriented rhythms accompanied with peculiar vocal processing in “RANA”. The second track, “YAMA”, features driven, distorted percussion and experiments across the stereo field, whilst title track, “MEDUSA,” takes this fragmentation further, skipping nimbly across percussion and synth stabs. A dynamic artist working across various media, 33EMYBW has developed a distinct aesthetic rooted in a fascination with insects, aliens, and other creatures.

33EMYBW is a part of Shanghai-based band Duck Fight Goose, and also founded The Centaurs alongside GOOOOOSE. The Centaurs is a series of events in Shanghai promoting left-field electronic music as well as hosting workshops in music production, modular synthesis, and DIY software and hardware instruments.

GOOOOOSE:

formerly known as Han Han, is a Chinese artist who has released on SVBKVLT Shanghai and D-Force Beijing. He is a member of the Shanghai-based electronica outfit Duck Fight Goose.2017 saw the release of They, via D-force Records Beijing. The release leans on experiments in synthesis – at times delicate, as in “They Blossom” – and at others foreboding, as in “They Pray (take 7)”. GOOOOOSE has self-released tracks such as the meandering “sea-changes” and the sputtering and angular “probing object no.2999”. As an artist, GOOOOOSE’s interests and influences are wide-ranging; his music evidences hints of breakbeat, IDM, ambient, and more, while his internet presence showcases explorations in generative sound and image.In 2014, GOOOOOSE and 33EMYBW started The Centaurs, a series of events promoting left-field electronic music in Shanghai. In 2017, The Centaurs started hosting workshops in music production, modular synthesis and DIY software and hardware instruments. The primary goal of The Centaurs is to support, participate in, and enable China’s growing community of open-minded musicians and artists working with sound in live performance and real-time audiovisual work.

王长存（AYRTBH）:

Currently based in Hangzhou, China. Wang Changcun (aka. AYRTBH) is a sound artist, electronic musician and computer programmer. In 2003, six of Wang's work were chosen for the first sound art compilation CD "China: The Sonic Avant-Garde" which published by the American label Post-Concrete. In the same year, he performed at the first large scale international experimental music festival "Sounding Beijing 2003" in November. October 2004, he had his first performance tour of Europe, which includes France, Netherlands, Belgium, etc. Then he got his solo CD "The Mountain Swallowing Sadness" published by the Belgian label Sub Rosa, and "Parallel Universe" by the American label Post-Concrete. He also appears on many experimental music, sound art compilation CDs, for example the compilation "AN ANTHOLOGY OF NOISE & ELECTRONIC MUSIC #4" which published by Sub Rosa.

Alexmalism:

Besides playing regularly at HKCR, Alexmalism has been the supporting DJ of numerous artists including Aïsha Devi, Howie Lee and z.u.t.z.u.t. in XXX Gallery and Oil Club. By immersing avant-garde musical materials and underground club music elements, his experimental beats are a manifestation of his anxiety from his own conflicting, almost religious ego, to a futuristic dystopian imagination. His DJ set consists of music from the current underground club music to hardcore music. Through constructing a highly futuristic soundscape with cybernetic sounds and almost industrial beats, the music manifest a hyper-capitalistic worldview. Recently, his track ‘Sombre’ is included in the London pan-Asia label Chinabot’s complication ‘Mental Maps’.