2021 ESS Curatorial Fellow James Gui returns for a new feature. Originally designed as a feature for his concert from last year Eastern Resonance, this piece has now transformed into a musing on the constant need for more writings for and by underrepresented communities - namely the growing “scene” of electronic musicians from Asia and the diaspora.
Read MoreFor his final Quarantine Concert, ESS Curatorial Fellow James Gui teamed up with Seoul venue Ahn Cheol Soon (ACS) to highlight some of Seoul’s best experimental musicians, new and old. Read more about ACS below, and tune into ESSsssssACS on 12/2, at 7pm Central Time!
Read MoreLeading up to Eastern Resonance, the October 30 Quarantine Concert featuring experimental pop and club musicians from Asia and the diaspora, Curatorial Fellow James Gui sat down with each of the performers to get an idea of their background and thought process behind their music. The sixth and final feature is an interview with Lalit, a Brooklyn, NY based DJ and producer. Read on to hear their musings on spirituality, working with La Monte Young, and starting the Xiao Ma Party Controllers collective.
Read MoreLeading up to Eastern Resonance, the October 30 Quarantine Concert featuring experimental pop and club musicians from Asia and the diaspora, Curatorial Fellow James Gui sat down with each of the performers to get an idea of their background and thought process behind their music. In this edition, we’ll get to know Mona Evie, a Hanoi-based collective whose experimental hip hop and sound collage textures draw from influences ranging from JPEGMAFIA to Otomo Yoshihide.
Read MoreLeading up to Eastern Resonance, the October 30 Quarantine Concert featuring experimental pop and club musicians from Asia and the diaspora, Curatorial Fellow James Gui sat down with each of the performers to get an idea of their background and thought process behind their music. This is an interview with Brooklyn-based composer and artist Robert Ouyang Rusli, who makes experimental rap as OHYUNG. They have scored films that have premiered at Sundance, SXSW, LA Film Festival, among others, and have released music with the UK-based label Chinabot.
Read MoreLeading up to Eastern Resonance, the October 30 Quarantine Concert featuring experimental pop and club musicians from Asia and the diaspora, Curatorial Fellow James Gui sat down with each of the performers to get an idea of their background and thought process behind their music. Here, we introduce Hwi Hwang, a Korean audiovisual artist who releases music as HWI and participates in an artist collective called eobchae.
Read MoreLeading up to Eastern Resonance, the October 30 Quarantine Concert featuring experimental pop and club musicians from Asia and the Asian diaspora, Curatorial Fellow James Gui sat down with each of the performers to get an idea of their background and thought process behind their music. This article will introduce Xamd, the solo project of Kazutaka Sawa, who also makes music as one-half of the electronic duo phai.
Read MoreLeading up Eastern Resonance, the October 30 Quarantine Concert featuring experimental pop and club musicians from Asia and the diaspora, Curatorial Fellow James Gui sat down with each of the performers to get an idea of their background and thought process behind their music. The first interview of six is with Victoria Yam, performing as rEmPiT g0dDe$$; she describes finding a rave community in Singapore, the working class background behind her moniker, opening for Dis Fig in Thailand, and more!
Read MoreWe are thrilled to introduce James Gui as this fall’s ESS Curatorial Fellow, and are eager to present with him a slate of three concerts and accompanying analysis. James is a freelance writer and photographer currently based in Brooklyn interested in the intersection of DIY music culture and resistance of marginalized groups across the globe.
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