film, music, new media, sound art, live audiovisuals, performance, movement art, experimentality, spirituality & life http://sammychien.com
2010-12-09
Art for Impact's House Awake
I'll be Djing for the after party w/ interactive lights on the adventurous dancers, visuals by Shang-Han. Art for Impact is formed by former SFU Dance Grad, non-profit $ goes to charity. Come and enjoy dance, music, theatre, films, deep clowning, installations, performances...and fabulous works 7-9pm. 10-11ish I will make you DANCE HARD!!!
2010-11-15
play at OCW release party @ Red Gate
I'm playing for OCW Magazine's release party! the venue is Red Gate... supposedly one of the best underground music/art venue in vancouver which delineates the split between those who find vancouver's night life boring and those who just can't get enough of it..
my improv collaborators are again the great James O'Callaghan & Anny Lin On Violin... if the day goes well... we'll bring in some live visuals as well w/ Shang-Han Chien.
Come out and celebrate the release of OCW 5.2/#18 with us at 156 W Hastings on Thursday, November 18 at 8:30PM.
This fundraiser for OCW Magazine features:
9pm = Readings and performances on club culture, coffee, and sex (based on pieces in the new issue), by
// Daniel Zomparelli, poet, writer, and editor of Poetry is Dead
// Shannon Rayne, poet, performer, writer, and editorial board member of OCW
10pm until late = Music by
// Sammy Chien (+James O'Callaghan & Anny Lin)
// Bear Mountain
// RALF
// Alonzo
http://theocwmagazine.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/ocw-events-5-218-release-party/
2010-10-29
guest featuring in Miko Kuro's Midnight Tea
10.30.10
midnight~early morning
45West STUDIOS in downtown Vancouver (45 W Hastings
MKMT is an undergound art happening which began as a monthly community event in downtown Vancouver. Participants, guests, featured artists, and MKMT staff collaborate to co-create a magical once-in-a-lifetime event. Each tea event is videotaped and photographed as part of a feature-length documentary and exhibition books. Guest artists from around the world have contributed their time and talents to this endeavor. To submit a collaborative proposal, please email mikokuro@gmail.com.
http://www.mikokuro.com/
Vjing for Merging+Media Conference + Masterclass
Sammy Chien is VJing for the reception of Merging + Media conference @ W2
THE M+M CONFERENCE, Friday, October 29th
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06.00PM - 08.00PM
Reception
Storyeum Socializer and B2B Networker!
Mix + Mingle with your new Media connections while enjoying our feature VJs and the M + M Digital Gallery of new platforms and Technology! Let the conversation flow with drinks and appies!
http://mergingmedia.ca/agenda
2010-10-03
3 shows in October 2010!!
The Cultch 1895 Venables Street Vancouver, BC |
Sammy Chien performs Real-time art: Improvised Experimental Music, Live Electronics & New Media with James O'Callaghan
Canzine West – the Zine Fair and Festival of Alternative Culture : THE BOOK MARK SHOW
Saturday, October 16, 20101pm - 7pm
W2 Storyeum
151 West Cordova Street
Vancouver
http://www.creativetechnology.org/events/canzine-west-the-zine-fair
http://www.brokenpencil.com/canzine/
Theatre for the Ears :: audio/visualizations |
Scotiabank Dance Centre (677 Davie Street)
8PM – Vancouver A/V Artists Showcase
Adam Basanta & Sammy Chien (Montreal/Vancouver)
Exploring the field of interactive audiovisual performance, Basanta and Chien create large-scale improvised structures that unfold simultaneously in both the auditory and visual domains. Fragments of familiar sounds and images peer out from imposing synthesized textures, while manipulated live objects recede into un-processed soundscapes in an effort to investigate the material's evocative possibilities within a multi-modal, digital context. Each performance takes on its own character, depending on the materials brought to the table by each artist.
http://newmusic.org/TFTE.htm
2010-09-27
2010-09-07
"The Objecthood of Chairs"-an interdisciplinary performance
2010-08-08
[ V E R S I O N ] roots + future dub
Time: August 13, 2010 at 11pm til late
Location: W2 - 151 Cordova
City/Town: vancouver
Website or Map: http://www.lowindigo.blogspot…
Event Type: summer, nights, event
Organized By: michael red & W2
B.RIDDIM live (monkey dub, mambo, portugal)
DUBIN HOOD live (dubin wood forest)
MICHAEL RED live (low indigo, lighta! sound)
TAAL MALA live (sub osc, lighta! sound)
NATURE BOY on the mic (pacific dubstep, victoria)
DR. SPINY dj (red gate, dub club)
Live Visuals by Sammy Chien
friday, aug 13 @ W2 - 151 w. cordova
$8 cover. 11pm - 4am. partial proceeds to help fund W2
four live PA's. one MC. one selector. full spectrum dub education.
live instruments & hardware & electronics. live dub experiments.
original-pressing dub vinyl. live dubbed-out vocals.
http://briddim.blogspot.com
http://www.myspace.com/dubinhood
http://www.myspace.com/michaelred4
http://www.myspace.com/taalmala
http://pacificdubstep.wordpress.com/artists/natureboy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dr_spiny
http://www.lowindigo.blogspot.com
http://www.creativetechnology.org
2010-08-05
improv experimental music set in Diagonal fair
It has been a while since i've perform live sound/music sets. the co-organizer Aaron Moran from Smoke Signals Arts has kindly invited me to perform experimental sound for this event they're putting on. I will be on around 9pm ish.
Sammy Chien performs live improvised experimental music set with Aaron Kelsh in /diagonal west coast zine fair.
Who: /diagonal west coast zine fair
What: A celebration of independent and creative publishing in Vancouver. The show will include literary zines from makers from all over Vancouver, Vancouver Island, and beyond. The gallery will be set up library-style, and guests are invited to take down any zine they want and experience it. Tables will be set up in the back for zine purchases, and the night will include readings by local poets and music by local bands.
Where: 221A Artist Run Centre (221 E. Georgia St)
When: Aug. 7 from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. (entertainment (poetry readings and music) start at 6 p.m.)
Cost: Free
2010-08-02
Installation "ShadowBox" in Surge Festival & New Form Festival 10
The Video/ New Media installation created by Sammy Chien and Krista Lomax called "ShadowBox", as part of the StoryBox Project in Surge Festival & New Form Festival 10. You can see this video installation outside of Cordova st. outside of W2 and right across from SFU Woodward's when the day gets darker.
2010-07-20
Vancouver Folk Music Festival After-Party
Vancouver Folk Music Festival After-Party
Location: W2 Storyeum
Street: 151 W Cordova Street
City/Town: Vancouver
Website or Map: http://thefestival.bc.ca/
Phone: 604-689-9896
Event Type: party, concert
Boukman Eksperyans (Port au Prince, Haiti)
DJ Dolores (Recife, Brazil)
http://www.creativetechnology.org/events/vancouver-folk-music-festival
2010-07-03
The Magic Cardigan Show
The Magic Cardigan Show
Date: | Thursday, July 15, 2010 |
Time: | 8:30pm - 11:00pm |
Location: | Cafe Montmartre (cash only) |
Street: | 4632 Main @ 28th |
City/Town: | Vancouver, BC |
ANDREW BARBER (sketch comedy)
http://youtube.com/barbarbinx
THE PROGRESSIVE POLYGAMISTS
a two-woman show co-created and performed by Pippa Mackie and Emmelia Gordon
A joint performance by ADAM BASANTA (live electroacoustic music) and SAMMY CHIEN (live visuals)
http://myspace.com/adambasanta
http://myspace.com/sammychien
Spoken word poet ANTONETTE REA
http://youtu.be/mnIarBQL0NI
Folk duo THE MAGIC CARDIGAN COLLECTIVE (Jared Hazzard and Joellen Housego)
http://youtube.com/jaredandjoellen
$5 Cover (CASH ONLY accepted at the Cafe).
**Arrive early because space is limited and it will fill up quickly!
Techno Carnegie: Karen Jamieson Dance, New Media/Video & Lights Workshop
Techno Carnegie
In partnership with SFU School for the Contemporary Arts and Carnegie Community Centre - KJD returns to dance in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside with a project that focuses on interdisciplinary exploration of new media/video & lights integrated with dance. This project promises to be of compelling interest to many of the community dancers who have on several occasions expressed interest in working with light and projection and shadow in the development of their ideas. This workshop will have two stages of development: the first a process of learning and mentoring from a person who has a mastery of the technology, the second stage creating choreography with these new tools. Workshops will take place at SFU for technical instruction and at the Carnegie Community Centre for dance creation. This project will take the form of a series of workshops over a period of time — starting in July 2010
http://www.dancingontheedge.org/Karen_Jamieson.php
2010-06-16
Media Design for Interdisciplinary Performance- Imprint at SFU Woodward's
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2010-06-03
A+B Asia Tour (Aonami+Baifan: Low-Bits Music)
Aonami+Baifan Asia Tour!!!
2 of the most amazing Low-Bit Musicians!!!
2010-05-24
Vancouver Interactive Digital (VID) Week Launch Party
The day is designed to be an interactive event that creates a genuine opportunity for all to share their knowledge/experience.
We will bring together representatives from film, TV, video games, animation, VFX, mobile & wireless and interactive marketing to learn about the differences and commonalities between sectors, about product development through collaboration and opportunities for innovation, growth and profit.
2010-05-22
backyard experimental film screening @ Georgia House
backyard screening experimental films+ live score..
i'll pitch in my first 16mm B&W film shot 6 years ago with new live improv experimental music.. should be fun fun fun.
First Annual Spring Screening @ the Georgia House
Start Time: | Saturday, May 22, 2010 at 8:00pm |
End Time: | Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 12:00am |
Location: | Georgia House |
Street: | 4285 Georgia Street |
City/Town: | Burnaby, BC |
2010-05-12
Best Innovation Award on Preproduction Package
2010-05-06
SFU Grad Film Screening (3 work featured)
2010-04-14
new electroacoustic-based film sound/score
My most recently composed sound/ score for film is screening in SFU's first year film screening. Janina Schabig's experimental 16mm film. The score is again more electroacoustic approach, this time is more heavily towards text-based processes and real-time composed glitchy drones. feel free to join us.
Date: | Thursday, April 15, 2010 |
Time: | 6:30pm - 9:00pm |
Location: | Images Theatre, SFU |
2010-04-04
my older electroacoustic work online in Concordia's Electroacoustic Concert Series
2010-03-29
VJing April's FOOL: El Papa Chango @ W2
April's FOOL invites you to step into the abyss...
El PAPA CHANGO and friends return to ignite the fires once again in Vancity, friday april 2nd! This is our third collaboration with W2 in bringing you alternative exceptional dance spaces in Vancouver.
We welcome you to sail this ship of fools and be enchanted by the SWEETest ANOMALY who returns to Vancity after a long hiatus (playing wicked sets along the west coast no less), followed by the spacecraft rhythms of DEANO WOMPenhauser who rocked our bottoms at Raise the Red Lantern.
Listen:
El Papa Chango (SF)
live dj mix:
http://summerrainrecordings.net/el_papa_chango-feb_26_2010.mp3
Sweet Anomaly (Vancouver, kind of):
http://soundcloud.com/sweet-anomaly/dj-sweet-anomaly-opa
Deano Womp (Sunshine Coast):
http://www.myspace.com/deanowomp
Visuals:
Sammy Chien http://soar.is2.net
&
Patricia Kim http://www.youtube.com/patriciakimfilms
9:30-10:30pm workshop with Patricia Kim
a one-hour physical workshop focusing on orienting the body in space, connecting to one's center and increasing spatial awareness, improving one's game on the dancefloor :)
warmup to include basic dance technique and floorwork, followed by simple choreography and improvisation exercises.
112 W. Hastings St
$20 @ door only
limited capacity event
arrive early
19+
"The Fool is both the beginning and the end, neither and otherwise, betwixt and between, liminal."
Wiki
"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."
Jonathan Swift
2010-03-23
A Noisy Brush with the Infinite, lecture by Dr. Laura Marks
keynote lecture by Laura U. Marks
Noise Not Noise festival, The Western Front
Friday March 26, 7 p.m. Free.
Followed by a performance by noise artist KK Null at 8 p.m.
The Western Front, 303 East 8th Avenue
I'll be talking about noise in light of a model I call Image-Information-Infinite, which explains how certain things arrive to our perception (Image) from the universe (Infinite) and others do not. According to this model, noise is part of the infinite that is often filtered before we perceive it, the result being that what we end of seeing is Information. So the question is, how can we lift away the imposed filters and create our own ways of making contact with the infinite, without drowning in noise? And how can we appreciate the extra layers that information adds to the image?
School for the Contemporary Arts
Simon Fraser University
2010-03-22
Thanks for the Slaute, MOA
I'm sure SadMag would be happy to know about this, too. One of our ultimate goal is to connect the people together and spread the creative spirits. This seems to be happening gradually. Every little step counts.
Please also support MoA, for providing such an amazing and inspiring space.
http://www.moa.ubc.ca/blog/2010/03/19/moa-salutes-sammy-chien/
2010-03-19
SAD MAG ISSUE 3 LAUNCH PARTY
SAD MAG ISSUE THREE LAUNCH PARTY
Friday, March 19 8pm
The ANZA Club
This is a 19+ event
Get a first look at the new issue, and meet the emerging artists beyond the pages of the magazine.
We are back at the Legendary Anza Club and we promise glamour, cheap beer, amazing entertainment, our best issue yet and Sad Smiles.
Enjoy performances by Vancouver’s “Queen of Sass,” our beautiful covergirl, Ms. Crystal Precious, the music of ok vancouver ok, DJ Lazerbomb! and DJ Tina’s Husband, and visuals by Sammy Chien.
Tickets are $10 (at the door). Grab the first copies of the magazine and party with us! Cheap booze!
2010-03-09
a lil' forgotten surprise...
2010-02-11
Raise the Red Latern~A Tiger's Tale @W2
I am currently working on an exciting event /party with W2 that is part of the 2010 Vancouver Cultural Olympia’s CODE (Cultural Olympia’s Digital Edition) event, Bright Light 2010 as well as the after party for Vancouver Art Walk 2010. There will be various performances and DJs. I will be VJing through out the night with Patricia Kim, who’s also a filmmaker, choreographer and VJ. We will be doing some live streaming as well as real-time generative visuals via frequency and movements. Additionally, I might bring in a set of improvised contemporary fusion of chinese folk dance, live violin improvisation and real-time calligraphic-like visual media.
Time: Saturday, Feb. 13th, 2010, 9:00 pm ~2:00 am
Location: W2 Culture + Media House
112 W. Hasting St. Vancouver, BC
Year of the Tiger together amidst all that will be happening in Vancouver on this much anticipated weekend. Please join us at W2 for an evening of offerings.
Some of you may remember the great space(s) of W2 where El Papa Chango played last November. W2 will also be housing alternative media reporters during the big O.
Sure to be a very diverse mix of people.
For more info on W2:
http://www.creativetechnology.org/
We are pleased to announce the performing artists joining us this night.
The players:
Lesley Ewen - thespian extraordinaire
Dawn Zoe - ephemeral chanteuse
Shenpenn Tibet Khymsar - metal Tibetan warrior
Jordan Bent - a painter's dream
Babette Santos & Stephanie Pintar -
fanning the dance
more tba
followed by DJs
Deano (Sunshine Coast, BC)
One of Left Coast's best-kept secrets, Deano is a dj/producer that has been playing shows for the past ten years. He plays eclectic sets that get the party BOUNCIN. He also happens to be
a master carver. We are stoked to have him in Vancity.
http://www.myspace.com/deanowomp
DJ Mazeguider (aka Jeet K)
When not speaking to the Senate and helping to put a stop to absurd legislation, Jeet K can be found behind the decks rockin the electro, techno and glitch hop. Jeet K has been involved in Vancity's underground music scene as both producer and MC since the 90s and a dj for the past six years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQgsCeuFu_M
opening set by Patricia
Patricia played out years before, under the moniker Kriyatrix. For this set, expect something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.
Visuals by Sammy Chien & Patricia Kim w/ Fearless City Mobile
Sammy is a media artist, filmmaker and VJ. He has created live visuals for concerts, interactive installations and new media dance performances. He will be performing real-time generative images, triggering by movement and sound.
http://soar.is2.net
*Fortune readings by Dragan. Hidden in the labyrinthine spaces of W2, look for a man with cards (by donation).
doors at 9pm
performance 10-10:30
djs Deano & Mazeguider 10:30 onwards
112 W. Hastings (and Abbott)
$10 (!) at door only
19+ event
"The Tiger is one of the most beautiful creatures on the planet, and is feared and revered in equal measure. It features in many Asian cultures as a manifestation of courage, power, passion and royalty. The Tiger symbolizes the female Yin energy as opposed to the Yang male energy of the dragon. Ancient Chinese believe that the markings on the forehead of tigers resemble the Chinese character for "Wang", or King. In Imperial China, where the dragon is the insignia of the emperors, the tiger is the military emblem of the highest supreme commanders of the army symbolizing fearlessness and victory. The Tiger also represents earth, while the dragon represents Heaven. The powerful and stealth prowess of the Tiger inspire the martial art movements of many Kung-Fu masters."
Those who are skilled in combat
do not become angered.
Those who are skilled at winning
do not become afraid.
Thus, the wise win before they fight
while the ignorant fight to win.
Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"