An evening of immersive electronic music by three Asian artists as we celebrate Platform Asia’s 5th anniversary. Presented with independent Asian music label Chinabot as part of Dreamy Place 2024 in Brighton. Let’s dance!
Featuring international Asian musicians Neo Geodesia, CHOOC LY, and Memeshift, whose boundary-pushing music draws from science fiction, rave culture and traditional Asian instruments, spanning dynamic genres from noise and techno to acid dance.
Date: Friday, 25 October 2024
Time: 7:30pm doors open, 8pm-midnight performance
Address: The Brunswick, 1 Holland Road, Hove BN3 1JF
Price: £9
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CHOOC LY is a multi-disciplinary artist, DJ, and cultural producer whose work spans moving images, DJ sets, radio podcasts, event organizing, and club nights, with a background in sculpture and performance. Her practice aims to create new realities by subverting or repurposing the systems and tools we use to understand our world, drawing on concepts from physics, politics, and music. She also co-runs the London club night Décalé. As a DJ, Chooc Ly crafts emotionally charged and kaleidoscopic mixes of club music and futuristic sounds.
Neo Geodesia is the alias of Saphy Vong, a French-Cambodian audio-visual artist born in a Thai refugee camp after his parents fled the Khmer Rouge, and raised in the suburbs of Nancy, northeastern France. His distinctive musical vision merges the experimental and DIY ethos of the local Nancy Hardcore and Grindcore scenes, which embraced him as a teenager, with the sounds of Cambodia transmitted into his home via his parents’ pirated tapes and videos of Khmer pop, karaoke, monk chants, and movies.
In recent years, his work has concentrated on blending experimental electronic techniques with traditional Khmer music, pushing the boundaries of sonic expression to include noise, Bek Sloy, Funeral Smot, and Roam Vong. His approach has evolved from focusing on heaviness to exploring slipperiness, granular textures, and intricate polyrhythms.
Active for over a decade under the alias Lafidki, Vong has produced, composed, and released electronic music through Orange Milk Records.
‘Fanta Rouge, with its pounding drums and ridiculously addictive melody, is the most ecstatic thing I’ve heard in ages, all the more remarkable considering the sadness which surrounds it’ – The Quietus
Memeshift is an experimental electronic musician and organiser who draws creative inspiration from his cultural heritage and the diverse diasporas of his kin. Alongside Bilawa Ade Respati, Rabih Beaini, and Khyam Allami, he developed an open-source sample pack of Javanese gamelan instruments, including their MIDI tunings, guides, and tools for artists interested in Southeast Asian tonality, called Latent Sonorities.
Musically raised within DIY punk, noise and rave scenes in Southern California, his recent sonic homings invoke the music of his matrilineal roots from southeast Asia, most recently through his debut album Echoes, released on Chinabot in April 2024.
The music of Memeshift evokes Aphex melancholia with grungy shoegaze forays and gamelanic accoutrement, melodic science fiction that’s at once kind, heavy, magical and playful.
‘A gently vaporous hulk of melancholia’ – The Wire
Curated and produced by Platform Asia. Supported by Art Fund, Arts Council England, Diversity Art Forum, The Chalk Cliff Trust and People’s Postcode Trust. Special thanks to the British Art Network and Paul Mellon Centre.
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