Leo Chang: Young Mong
$25 advance, $30 doors ($20 student/senior 65+ with ID)
- Leo Chang, amplified gongs, voice, electronics, & Korean reeds (piri, taepyungso)
- Alex Zhang Hungtai, percussion, electronics, & saxophone/reeds
- Che Chen, percussion & various self-made instruments
- Tashi Dorji, electric guitar
Leo Chang presents improvised electroacoustic music for his 2024 Roulette Commission with Alex Zhang Hungtai, Tashi Dorji, and Che Chen.
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, voice, electronics, & Korean reeds (piri, taepyungso)
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.
http://www.listentoleo.com/About Alex Zhang Hungtai, percussion, electronics, & saxophone/reeds
About Che Chen, percussion & various self-made instruments
Che Chen is a New York-based composer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as a central figure in the group 75 Dollar Bill. Chen has collaborated with several influential avant-garde and improvisational musicians like Jorge Boehringer (Core of the Coalman), Rolyn Hu, Chie Mukai, Tori Kudo, Tetuzi Akiyama, and Tony Conrad.
https://chechen.bandcamp.com/