“Of Anarchy in Music – More Journeys in Sound” Exposition in NTMOFA, Taichung

Starting from sound as an object of exhibition, this show opens a dialogue between the New Media collection of the National Museum of Modern Art – Centre Pompidou and works by artists from Taiwan, and its neighbors in the Asian region. The thirty works gathered here showcase pivotal experiences from the past twenty years at the crossroads of experimental music, sound installation, audiovisual composition, sonic environment, and acoustic performance. The journey starts outside the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts and moves through various spaces on the ground floor and first floor of the museum, reflecting the dispersive nature of sound frequencies: the artworks here may be heard before they are seen. (Marcella Lista)

ＬＩＮＫ：https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/LWTF48R

The 204-meter-long “Tape for Musarc” was produced by the London-based  experimental choir Musarc, based on Lin Chiwei’s original score in 2015. It has since it has become a repertoire piece for the ensemble, and has been regularly performed at major music festivals and the annual Summer Solstice Festival to this day, once played with Keiji Haino .

The “Tape Music” series has been collectively performed over 200 times in diverse spaces across different countries, including churches, temples, factories, city halls, district offices, schools, vocational training camps,psychological workshops, bars, shopping malls, private homes, theaters, art museums,and orchestras. Each performance, shaped by different ethnicities, communities, and contexts, creates a unique soundscape, poetically manifesting the interaction process within a community where power dynamics and role distributions remain undefined.

In “Tape Music,” participants starts the performance without clear rules. There are no indications for pitch, duration, or melody—only syllables and relative timing cues for vocalization.This uncertainty compels participants to actively listen to one another and make spontaneous  decisions about their role in the game: whether to follow the crowd, create something unique, harmonize with other members, or even remain silent.The unpredictable collisions and interactions of multiple voices ultimately determine what kind of “music” will emerge.