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:

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)

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.

Entrance is $12 before midnight, $15 after.

more info

also a small going away party for my boy Jimmy Hsu. Shout out...

Sammy's previous VJ event:

performing in Seattle: PLOP! presents "FABRICATION"

I'm performing an cozy live audiovisual set with my bro Shang-Han & my frequent collaborator Anny Lin on Violin at a sweet gallery in Seattle! Working with Josie Davis again is quite exciting... last time was at Miko Kuro's Midnight Tea. There will be soundscapes, ambient, live improvised violin & free-form experimental music with audience's improv story telling, as well as improv abstract images and live visual projections on the gallery walls... along with Seattle's wonderful writers, poets and performers.

Get Intimate ... and Get Global: PLOP! in the New Year!

"FABRICATION"
Gallery ArtXChange
512 1st Ave.
Seattle, WA 98104
Thursday, January 20
7-9:30pm

more info on PLOP!

http://www.plopliteraryseries.blogspot.com/

josie elizabeth davis

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LS Times TV Commercial

My appearance in LS Times Movie Channel in their commercial promoting watching Chinese Films at home. Directed by Jimmy Hsu

LS TIMES TV Subscription Campaign 1min Commercial from Jimmy Hsu on Vimeo.

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!!!

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/

guest featuring in Miko Kuro's Midnight Tea

I will be guest performing live improv sound in this very intriguing underground event with Luke Moloney
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

• 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

Vancouver New Music: Theatre for the Ears--Audio/Visualization

http://newmusic.org/theatre-for-the-ears/

3 shows in October 2010!!

Sad Mag Live

Saturday, October 9 · 8:00pm - 10:00pm

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, 2010
1pm - 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

Saturday 23 October 2010
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

Sad Mag Live

http://www.sadmag.ca/2010/09/sad-mag-live/

"The Objecthood of Chairs"-an interdisciplinary performance

My brother and I have been commissioned to work on this performance "The Objecthood of Chairs" in the past weeks as new media designer / video coordinator. This show is an interdisciplinary collaboration, although more heavily towards the theatrical/text aspect, the collaborators are very talented and inspiring profs from SFU contemporary arts.

there will be a free preview show Tuesday Sept 7th 8pm at SFU Woodward's Studio T. The official show runs for 2 weeks.

I'm working on the new media design/ projection mapping for Rob Groeneboer's film that is projected with 3 projectors in this performance. I think the excitement for me would be that this is the first time we've used serious video snitching to create a uniquely wider imagescape.

[ 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

[ V E R S I O N ] roots + future dub


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

soar.is2.net

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

Sammy's VJ work preview:

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

http://diagonalfair.com/

facebook event

download pre-listen music track here

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.

There are 2 openings for this installation. July 30th 8pm & August 6th 7pm.

for more information:

http://www.creativetechnology.org/events/surge-festival-of-urban

http://urbanink.ca/?p=1569

http://ten.newformsfestival.com/?p=491

Thank you Will Stacey, Sandra Witner and Shang-Han Chien to help building the installation.

Vancouver Folk Music Festival After-Party

I'm VJing for Vancouver Folk Music Fest's after party. 700 people came... pretty crazy. W2 storyeum is such an awesome space for parties like this. great DJs, Musicians, cool crowd and down to earth hosts.

Time: July 18, 2010 at 10:30pm to July 19, 2010 at 3pm
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

The Magic Cardigan Show

I am performing live visuals with Adam Basanta's live electroacoustic music. Adam has always been bringing amazing sounds, this time, I'm very happy to work with him on this improvised audiovisual performance.

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

Inspired mixed-genre performances by some of Vancouver’s finest.

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!

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Techno Carnegie: Karen Jamieson Dance, New Media/Video & Lights Workshop

I'm working on this fantastic workshop for Karen Jamieson as a New Media/ Video Mentor on behalf of SFU Contemporary Arts,

There will be a performance of work in progress in July 18th, 2010 as part of the Dancing on the Edge festival.

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.kjdance.ca/

http://www.dancingontheedge.org/Karen_Jamieson.php

Media Design for Interdisciplinary Performance- Imprint at SFU Woodward's

Dear Friends,

I’m currently working on the Media Design for Imprint II with my brother Shang-han, an interdisciplinary performance piece with dance, music, media and telepresence technology. This project is co-created by choreographer Henry Daniel and composer Owen Underhill with the Turning Point Ensemble.

The last Imprint has successfully performed in MoA in January 2010. This time we’re performing at SFU Woodward’s spectacular Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre

Our work involves real-time visual processing and interactive media in dance, music and theatre environment. Although the visual projection isn't the main dish of the show, but experimenting alternative ways to present images and motion on unconventional platform might be somewhat interesting to you.

There will also be an interactive/telepresent installation created by Majid Bagheri, Xiaonan Mah & James O'callaghan in the gallery before, during and after the show. You can see the dancers performing in the gallery in the first half of the show, then they'll leave to the theatre and the that's when telepresence comes into the gallery. This part of the show is accessible for free.

more on Imprint II:

http://www.turningpointensemble.ca/concert3.htm

http://www.sfu.ca/~hdaniel/imprint2.html

http://sfuwoodwards.ca/imprint.html

IMPRINT AT SFU WOODWARD'S Check out the Globe & Mail, Georgia Straight and The Province for Imprint preview articles: Trilogy: Fall in Love with Love Poetry and Magic of Art Rudolf Komorous and the 'Aesthetic of the Strange" Turning Point Ensemble's Imprint Showtimes: June 17 - 20 @ 8pm 2pm Matinee on Saturday, June 19 $35/regular $15/student plus service charges To order tickets visit - www.sfuwoodwards.ca or 604 873 3311 Tickets will also be available at the Box Office at each performance, subject to availability. Getting to SFU Woodward's The Theatre is located at 149 West Hastings Street. Access the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre from the courtyard entrance at the corner of Cambie and Cordova. By car There is an Easy Park lot located on Cordova Street across from the theatre. By transit The Theatre is located on a major bus route and within easy walking distance of Skytrain and SeaBus. Plan your transit trip at www.translink.ca or call 604.953.3333. For further information visit www.turningpointensemble.ca

A+B Asia Tour (Aonami+Baifan: Low-Bits Music)

my friend Aonami from Tokyo and his collaborator musician Baifan from Beijing is having an asia tour with their amazing Low-Bits (8-bits/video game/chiptunes) electronic music.

Motoki (Aonami) is one of the sweetest man that I've known, also the craziest dude on stage. I've made a short promo video on their music:

Aonami+Baifan Asia Tour!!!

2 of the most amazing Low-Bit Musicians!!!

their record label

Aonami

Baifan

Vancouver Interactive Digital (VID) Week Launch Party

Digital Media Day

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.

Celebrate the launch of VIDWeek 2010 at Vancouver's celebrated Storyeum site. This is the kickoff to an exciting week of networking, learning, and parties for the digital media and wireless industries, with Canada, USA, Asia Pacific and Europe represented.

I will be VJing for the VID Week Launch Party. Tuesday, May 25th, 2010. 7 -10pm @ W2 storyeum.

http://www.vidweek.com/vidweek_day1.html

http://www.creativetechnology.org/events/vidweek-launch-party

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

Best Innovation Award on Preproduction Package

My production package on my grad project Patterns Of Liquid Stars has just received best innovation award- Noel Archambault Award.

I am extremely pleased and encouraged to receive such an honor. I wasn't expecting this at all, which gave me a wonderful surprise.

I've been thinking about creating this work for a couple years already. And now it is about to begin. The first step towards this project is already landing with a very positive encouragement.

I'm hoping to look for more funding & sponsorship this summer. However, this is a already a tremendous support to my project. Thank you for those who supported me on making this package. Especially Janina Schabig who helped designing my package to make my thoughts-communication possible.

I cannot forget to thank the Archambault family. Noel Archambault, who were one of the first filmmaker that started 3D film in Canada. He begin that innovative journey & success in SFU. His innovative spirit really has infiltrated SFU and continuing to inspire us.

more info on Noel Archambault