Improv.nation Market (an electro-acoustic improvisation sabotage)

Experimentation In Sound art Tradition (E.X.I.S.T.) is pleased to welcome Luo Chao Yun, a Taiwanese Pipa player who will be performing this Sunday, March 7, 2010 at Souk Kafe. She will also be collaborating with some of Cavite’s electronic artists and musicians in a rare night of ethno and electro-acoustic fusion.

Improv.nation Market

an electro-acoustic improvisation sabotage

Luo Chao Yun (Pipa) + Dok Natividad (Hegalong) + Ugong (Electronics)

Blend:er (Roland SH-101) + Ros Veluz (Percussions)

Lirio Salvador (Sandata)

Lakbay Lahi

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Luo Chao Yun is the only PIPA (traditional Chinese guitar lute) player who plays traditional music to free jazz improvisation and experimental avant-garde in the contemporary music world. She is Taiwan’s famous professional Pipa Soloist/improviser, Luo Chao-yun, is a virtuoso performer on the Chinese traditional string instrument----“PIPA”. She received the master's degree in Pipa performance at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Luo Chao-yun has performed recitals, concertos with orchestra, multimedia-performances, improvisation performances, embassy concerts, and etc. in Beijing (many times), Malaysia(2 times), Singapore, Portugal, Pakistan, Nepal, Costa Rica (2 times), Italy, USA (3 times), UK (3 times), the Netherlands (2 times), Brazil, Bulgaria, Japan, North Cyprus, Indonesia, and etc. She also has master class, and lectures in these countries, too.

Lirio Salvador is a multi-media experimental artist and is probably the most influential and astonishing homemade circuit-benders and instrument builders in the country. He established the E.X.I.S.T. sound art collective back in 2002. He creates his assemblage of musical instruments using day to day materials that are found in his present environment, including bicycle gears, drain cleaning springs and stainless steel tubes.

Gerarld ‘Dok’ Natividad is a Hegalong player (a two-stringed native musical instrument from Mindanao), founder of Lakbay Lahi, and work as a project officer for environmental advocacy and disaster management in Lasallian Community Development Center of De La Salle University – Dasmariñas. Currently, he’s working on field and nature recordings, especially in the field of Acoustic-Ecology.

Erick Calilan is a Cavite-based sound artist, a multi-instrumentalist and an interdisciplinary artist working with D.I.Y. (Do-It-Yourself) technology related to sounds. Often performs under the name Ugong, a sound art outfit utilizing home-made circuit-bent sound devices created from toy keyboards, walkie-talkie and other low voltage electronic devices, he has collaborated with numbers of sound artists, media-art practitioner, musicians and performance artists in the Philippines.

Blend:er (a.k.a. Cris Garcimo) is an electronic music composer/producer, synth player, soundscape artist and noise enthusiast based in Cavite, Philippines. His music has been described as cinematic, imaginative, touching and stimulating. He will be performing together with Ros Veluz.


Lakbay Lahi (Racial Journey) is built on the philosophy that deep satisfaction from sound is something innate...inborn. For the span of 9 months that every human has spent inside the womb of their mother, they have, consciously or unconsciously, been listening to the music of LIFE - wiggling themselves inside the small confines of the placenta as the hearts of their loving mothers continuously beat. Creating a never ending solo concerto of a 'percussionist', stopping the performance would mean death to the 'musician' and/or the 'listener' as well.

The event starts at 7pm at Souk Kafe, located at Terraza Dasma, Robinson's Place Dasmariñas, Dasmariñas, Cavite. This event is FREE but donations will be highly appreciated. House music by Jon Romero during after-party.

MAP / DIRECTION CLICK HERE

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And also, Luo Chao Yun will be the special guest artist for the opening ceremony of ‘TADTARAN: MULA KUSINA PATUNGONG GALERYA [SINING NG KABABAIHAN, KABABAIHAN SA SINING]’, an art exhibit celebrating women’s creativity and artistry through visual arts exhibition, poetry recitation, dance, music and performance art, at Espasyo Siningdikato creatiVEnue, Block 11 Lot 9 Congressional Road, Bgy. Sta.Fe Dasmariñas, Cavite (near DLSU-Dasmariñas, in front of Dan Phil Hardware) on Saturday (March 6, 2010) at 6 pm.

TADTARAN: MULA KUSINA PATUNGONG GALERYA

[SINING NG KABABAIHAN, KABABAIHAN SA SINING]

Tadtaran is a celebration of women’s creativity and artistry through visual arts exhibition, poetry recitation, dance, music and performance art. It features young and emerging women artists of Cavite and neighboring provinces with “tadtaran” or “chopping board” as platform for artistic creation.The exhibit seeks to challenge the creative imagination of the artist-participants on how they could transform this utilitarian piece into a work of art. On the other hand, the performances allow them to collaborate with sound artists of ESPASYO SININGDIKATO. It also hopes to bring together women who advocates for their causes and rights as well as those who believes that women are important allies and partners in creating a living, home making and nation building. Highlight of the event is a performance of Taiwanese Pipa soloist Luo Chao Yun in collaboration with Lakbay-Lahi, an organic sound art group.

Participating artists-performers: Jennifer Tario-Arroyo,Valerie Faye Bautista, Charlene Bayani, Ainne Frances De La Cruz, Flobby Carasco, Nadine De La Fuente,Lerma Julian, Primerose Kamantigue, Irma Lacorte, Heidi Sarno, Mary Ann Jimenez-Salvador,Double Burner, Chopping Board, Lakbay-Lahi, Publiko Duo, and Washing Machine.With special participation/performance of International Taiwanese pipa soloist Luo Chao Yun.

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