Leo Chang Residency at Roulette
$25 advance, $30 doors ($20 student/senior 65+ with ID)
- Leo Chang, amplified gongs, custom-built electronics, voice, reeds, & movement
- Efraín Rozas, percussion & movement interaction with robotic sculpture
Korean improviser/electronic musician and 2024-2025 Roulette Resident Leo Chang presents a new evening-length performance with Peruvian interdisciplinary artist/researcher/robotics maker Efraín Rozas. Both of them use custom-built electronic instrument setups derived from their respective traditions as the basis for experimental rites—the audience will experience amplified gongs, robotic percussion, interactive lighting, and movement.
A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm Eastern on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.
About Leo Chang, amplified gongs, custom-built electronics, voice, reeds, & movement
Leo Chang is a Korean improviser, composer, performer, and scholar of experimental music currently living in Brooklyn. Born in Seoul, Leo lived as an expat in Singapore, Taipei, and Shanghai, and then moved to the United States in 2011. Needing to assimilate to various cultures and thereby cultivating an irreverence towards rules and norms from a young age, Leo expresses rootlessness and multiplicity within identities through his music. His art is an act of home-making inspired by various musical and ideological movements that have sought to question power dynamics and imagine egalitarian possibilities. His primary methods are improvisation, written text, graphical notation, and electronic processing. Leo frequently performs as/with VOCALNORI, which amplifies vocal sounds through gongs via electronic instruments. He also plays Korean double reed instruments (piri and taepyungso) in untraditional ways, often processing his piri playing using electronics. Leo has shared his artistic practice at various gatherings and venues: notably the Vision Festival, Pierre Boulez Saal, Pioneer Works, NYC Winter Jazzfest, Ostrava Days New Music Festival, New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, and the International Computer Music Conference. His projects have been supported by Roulette Intermedium, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Center for Performance Research, Korea Foundation, Arts for Art, EMPAC at Rensselaer, Chashama, and the Tank, among others.
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