Sammy Chien: between immanence and the sublime...: 2011

2011-12-07

Kollide: KBN X Freedom Beat X Chimerik

Live Electronics X Percussion X New Media
at Legacy Taipei 2011 12 07

We Chimerik involved as live visuals collaborator.

Official Website for Kollide

2011-10-25

exhibiting in Taipei World Design Expo 2011

Our new collective-- Chimerik is Exhibiting and performing new media works, interactive video, sound art, live visuals and improvised performances in Taipei World Design Expo 2011 Nangang Exhibition Hall under Designhouse section A27. Oct 23-30th 2011.

Chimerik, our new team, right in here. Come find us and play.

似不像 Chimerik 再2011台北世界設計大展南港展覽館i展出新媒體, 互動影像, 聲響, 各式跨界即興表演等等. 展區 A27 浩式的空間下. 歡迎來參觀或一請玩

浩氏設計相互交擊 intercroxx

集結各領域創作能量於浩氏設計空間內相互激盪撞擊，
以數位媒體作為引，牽動交擊流動的當下。

展出時刻：
10/22 - 11:00 opening 胡嘉 (滅劇場)
- 14:00 Sammy Chien / Jez.f (KbN)
16:30 dj james ho

10/23 - 10:30 李潔欣 (無垢劇團)
14:30 廖珮妤、華佩（采風劇團）
- 16:00 王連晟 (失聲季)
- 17:00 felicia

10/24 - 10:30 李潔欣 (無垢劇團)
14:00 王新仁 (失聲季)
15:30 Sammy Chien / Jez.f (KbN)
16:00 Nikko (列島夕照)

10/25 - 10:00 李世揚 (藝綻室內樂團)
14:00 Puta (失聲季)
15:00 Nikko (列島夕照) / jez.f (KbN)
16:00 A Tai
17:00 felicia / Chimerik

10/26 -
15:00 成文（雜唱片）
16:00 張又升 (Kandala Record)

2011-09-17

WEEKENDSOUND @ IAC Berlin!

WEEKENSOUND
週末聲音

SEP 17, 2011
OPENING: 8:30PM
VENUE :
IAC BERLIN
BRUNNENSTR.29, 10999 BERLIN

WEEKENDSOUND is a sound project and an artist is invited to do a live concert.

On this evening IDOLON STUDIO is pleased to present Shang-Han Chien簡上涵(CA) + Sammy Chien簡上翔(CA) + Hun-Chun Lin林惠君(DE) + Mirae Rosner(CA) + Jesse Scott(CA) + Maria Pyatkova(RU).

Shang-Han Chien(簡上涵) & Sammy Chien(簡上翔) are inter-disciplinary artists who seek to merge cinema, visual art, sound art, graphic design, animation, new media and dance performance techniques into a new individual practice. They frequently collaborate both visually and aurally in multi-disciplinary projects range from film, dance performance, improvised audiovisual performance, live electronics, concert, theatre, video installation, art exhibition and interdisciplinary collaborative-performance. They began their interdisciplinary collaboration and new media journey with Dr. Henry Daniel (Vancouver) & Troika Ranch (NYC/Berlin) in 2008. Since then, they continue their deep interest in interdisciplinary collaborations and forge deep connections within images, sound and movements. Both of their work has appeared in various films, music, media and dance festivals. Sammy holds his B.F.A in Film Honors at School for the Contemporary Arts in Simon Fraser Unveristy. Shang-Han holds his B.D in Graphic Design at Nova Scotia College of Art & Design University (NSCADU), Canada.

Musician, Hui-Chun Lin(林惠君), Classical piano and cello education, Studied with Professor Peter Bruns at Dresden Conservatory, Postgraduate studies in improvisation with Tilo Augsten at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig, Worked as solo cellist and ensemble musician, Improvisation, theatre music, contemporary music, dance, performance, classical music, world music and cello solo with live electronics, Participated in a workshop with "Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road, Ensemble" at Carnegie Hall in New York 09/2006, also participated the workshop "Dave Douglas: Composition and Improvisation in New York 02/2010", Leipziger Jazztage 2007 (jazz festival) with "Beat Freisens Spelunkenorchester" Lectureship for improvisation at the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig 2006-2008, Conducted an improvisation class at a middle school in Tainan/Taiwan 2008/09, World music series "Passagen" of the Bayerischer Rundfunk with Mahoott 01/2010 ans also Free Improvisation Concert at Leipjazzig Festival 03/2010, Contemporary Music, Concert at Resonanzen Festival Leipzig 04/2010 and "Codes" Festival of Traditional and Avant-garde Music in Lublin (Poland) 05/2010, "Artist in Residence" in Cit des Arts Paris 07/2010-01/2011.

Jesse Scott is a new media artist, producer, coder, designer, visualist, curator, writer, and blogger. Under various aliases and operating within several artist collectives, he produces work for live performance, for site-specific actions, for listening, for viewing, for reading… his work has spanned the domains of a/v performance, locative media, telematics, improvisational practice, urban projection, installation design, public workshops, and the written word.

Mirae Rosner's her dance training in Novosibirsk. She moved from Russia to work at the Max Plank Institute in Göttingen in the field of Molecular and Genetic Biology. Here, in the absence of any training possibilities she taught classes in ballet and modern. She moved to Berlin a year and a half ago to pursue artistic projects, and complements performing and creating films with research in the field of Social Psychology.

Maria Pyatkova undertook her dance training in Novosibirsk. She moved from Russia to work at the Max Plank Institute in Göttingen in the field of Molecular and Genetic Biology. Here, in the absence of any training possibilities she taught classes in ballet and modern. She moved to Berlin a year and a half ago to pursue artistic projects, and complements performing and creating films with research in the field of Social Psychology.

This event is part of the exhibition "LIQUIDSHELL"(09.09
-01.10.2011) at IAC-Berlin Gallery : "Sound Disc" by Wang Fujui (TW), "Foreground" by Shingo Inao (JP), "Vibration Lake" by Kuo-Wei Lin/ SUMO STUDIO (DE), "relativity" by Chang Yung-Ta (TW), "Window, projector and magnifying blinds" by Kim Westerström (SE) and "permeable super real" by Elke Marhöfer (DE) /sound by Olaf Hochherz (DE).

http://www.idolonstudio.com/main/event.php

http://www.myspace.com/linhuichun/

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special thanks to dear Wang, chun-chi, our curator.

2011-06-28

Collision 2011 -Karen Jamieson Dance

Collision
“Collision” is a three year interdisciplinary, multileveled dance production reflective of Vancouver's history. It takes place at the Roundhouse once the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway and now a creative centre for people of all cultures and ages.

Created by an extraordinary team of award winning artists of varying disciplines, “Collision” collides professional contemporary dancers with multicultural and multigenerational community dancers, composers, photographers, filmmakers, designers and cultural figures.

“Collision” explores the collisions of past and present and the historical collision of European and Asian immigrants and First Nations and their different relationships to the railway. The many lives of this territory are integral to “Collision”

The audience moves through the Roundhouse public areas within and without the building with over 30 performers animating the spirit of the place and evocative imagery that brings past and present into the same space. Music will be both live and recorded including the sound of iron railways spikes clanging on the tracks and the amplified sounds of the space itself as the bodies of the dancers move through it.

The Roundhouse provides a venue that gives the audience multiple ways to experience the performance — activity is happening around you, you choose what to look at, what to hear, where to stand, how you want to experience the program — what you want to take from it.

Choreographer & Performer: Karen Jamieson
Composers: John Korsrud, Jeff Corness, Kristen Roos
Photographer & Still Images: Chris Randle
Filmmaker & Moving Images: David Rimmer
Media Artist, Projection: Sammy Chien
Production Director & Lighting Design: Jean Philippe Trepanier
Production & Lighting Associate: Jeff Harrison
Stage Manager: Julie Martens
Rehearsal Director & Chinese Research & Performance: Su-Lin Tseng
First Nations Consultant and Performer: Chief Ian Campbell
Costumer Designer: Kate Burrows
Costume Coordinator: Marguerite T
Professional Dancers: Brian Solomon, Darcy McMurray, Caroline Farquhar, Meredith Kalaman, Donald Taruc
Community Dancers & Squamish First Nation Dancers

Performances
July 14, 15, 16, 17, 2011

Performances July 14, 15, 16 at 8:00pm
Performance July 17 at 2:00pm

Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Part of the 2011 Dancing on the Edge festival

Tickets available through Dancing on the Edge
www.dancingontheedge.org or 604.689.0926

2011-05-20

IDM/Breakcore/Dubstep party to help Japanese Red Cross

Time	Friday, May 20 at 9:00pm - May 21 at 2:00am

Location	Goldie's Pizza

More Info	This is a special fundraiser event for the Japanese Red Cross, with a suggested donation of $10. There will be a silent auction table with great stuff to bid on courtesy of PUFF, BIG RICH's and other fine donors. Music style will be IDM, Breakcore, Acid, Experimental Techno, and Dubstep. Time: 9:00pm-2am. Really good musical line-up here people!! Don't miss it. Live performances by: Psudaform (Glitch/Breaks/IDM) http://www.myspace.com/psudaform http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaXNUkvI-OY Hitori Tori (Breakcore/IDM) http://www.soundcloud.com/hitori-tori Ridylan G (Breakcore/IDM) http://www.myspace.com/ridylang PBF (Acid Breaks) http://www.myspace.com/psychologicalbombfactory C-130 (Experimental Techno) http://soundcloud.com/ian-garth-ross Chaotic Grey (Fuchno/Conspirabeat) http://www.myspace.com/chaoticgrey Nocore (Acid Techno/Grindcore) http://soundcloud.com/nocore Rafunk DJ (Oldschool Breaks/Funk) http://soundcloud.com/rafunkdj Lootcanal (Dubstep/Drumstep) http://www.soundcloud.com/lootcanal Visuals by Sammy Chien & Shang-Han Chien

2011-05-05

SFU Grad Screening

Patterns of Liquid Stars will be premiered with SFU Grad 2011 Screening.

2011-04-25

W2 Moving Party

2011-03-25

Creative Commons:W2 prezents a fundraising interactive visual + sonic spectacle

Creative Commons:W2 prezents a fundraising interactive visual + sonic spectacle

Kicking off the W2 Storyeum Closing Month Series. Help celebrate a year of operating Vancouver's creative commons!

Come out for a night of grimy beats and dancing while you show your love and support for the creative commons that our local community has built this past year at W2 Storyeum.

Saturday night will be a fundraiser towards W2 Community Media Arts Society and an active night of sounds and visuals. Our eclectic lineup of... Dj’s and Vj’s present an edgy mix of ambient, experimental and some grinding live electronics, dubstep, and breaky techno sounds.

check out this recent cover article in WE Magazine:

http://www.westender.com/cover-story-free-speech

LINEUP

Square Root of Evil
Echo Pilot
Andrew Van Hassel
Chaotic Grey
Hitori Tori
Platypus Toof
Sammy Chien [vj]
Shang-Han [vj]
Lomax [vj]

more info:

http://www.creativetechnology.org/events/creative-commons

http://www.tribalharmonix.org/events/details1760.html

2011-02-20

LOW INDIGO: Unfiltered Explorations in Present Day Electronic Music

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SELF EVIDENT with DIGITAL CUMBIA - live AV
MONOLITHIUM - live AV
MICHAEL RED - live AV
BARTEL - live PA
MX7 x ASTRX from TRANSMOLECULAR - live PA
TUCKER FOLDIN - DJ

Sammy Chien (+Shang-Han) - VJ

saturday.feb26 @ w2 - 151 w.cordova10pm-late. $5 / $10 after 11pm

http://lowindigo.blogspot.com

http://soundcloud.com/self_evident

http://www.subdivnet.com

http://lowindigo.blogspot.com/p/michael-red.html

http://alphabasic.com/bartel

http://soundcloud.com/chadiotreetrunk

http://transmolecular.blogspot.com

http://mysteryworks.blogspot.com

last event with Michael Red:

2011-02-08

Spring Break Social: Fundraiser Party for the Dance Grads 2011

I'm helping out SFU Dance's fundraiser party Spring Break Social: Fundraiser Party for the Dance Grads 2011 this Friday night, DJing all nigh with Aaron Kelsh + live visuals by Shang-Han Chien as well as some interactive lighting that I've created recently.

Upstairs will be film screening by recent and past selected works from SFU Film.

Much much thanks to Rheanna Toy for helping out coordinating the screening. contact Erika Mitsuhashi (elm5@sfu.ca) about tickets or info for the event, lovely dancer who choreographed and performed for my upcoming film... Patterns of Liquid Stars.

Please come support SFU dancers to help them put on their grad show. It should be lots of fun... cool space, beautiful dancers, sweet films, cool visuals, and music that will keep you smiling and dancing all night.

Event: Spring Break Social: Fundraiser Party for the Dance Grads 2011
Time: February 11, 2011 7pm - midnight
Place: Chapel Arts 304 Dunlevy Avenue Vancouver, BC V6A 3A6
Tickets: $15
facebook event

DJ: Sammy Chien (+lights) & Aaron Kelsh
Live Visuals: Shang-Han Chien

the last time Shang-Han and I performed at chapel arts for Art For Impact...
(photo by Sheng Ho)

2011-01-19

VJ: DÉBRUIT @ W2

low indigo + catalog pirate radio + W2 presents..

DÉBRUIT
MICHAEL RED
PRISON GARDE
CALAMALKA
NIÑA MENDOZA
SAMMY CHIEN

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011, 10pm-late
$12 before midnight, $15 after.
W2 Storyeum, 151 West Cordova, Vancouver, BC, Canada

W2 Storyeum, 151 W. Cordova St., Vancouver

Low Indigo, Catalog Pirate Radio and W2 present Parisian synth musician Débruit. Joining the talent roster for the evening are several Vancouver DJs: MRed (Michael Red) and CLMLKA (Calamalka) of Lighta! Sound, Vancouver's dubstep dance pushers; DJ Niña Mendoza with a heavy future funk set, classic electro and disco breaks; Prison Garde (formerly known as Megasoid / Sixtoo) with the best West Coast bass around; and visuals by Sammy Chien.