Midnight Tea in Mumbai: help us spread the word

I've worked with Miko Kuro's Midnight Tea in Vancouver a couple years ago... it was a really awesome experience. Quite creative, poetic, intimate and mesmerizing. This December Midnight Tea is going to be in Mumbai. This project/group needs raise funding for travel and project expense. The original idea is for me to perform remotely via internet, yet if we raise enough funding I might be able to be there as well to perform in the same space with everyone. Regardless, I hope anyone who's interested in this kind of art could help us spread the word, any money could help make the team's dream coming true.

Kickstarter link:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1565439438/midnight-tea-in-mumbai-0

in the video you'll hear some of the sound that I performed with Kang-Te Chang.

Dance & New Media Performance: Law of Proximity

I am working on New Media/ live visual design for this performance. invited by my favourite composer/new media artist Stefan Smulovitz.. working with dance company MACHiNENOiSY and many wonderful and interesting queer youth performers! and... also performing with the awesome local musician/co-organizer of 1067 Chris Kelly.

Queer Arts Festival and MACHiNENOiSY present: Law of Proximity

Building on their pilot project at QAF 2011, MACHiNENOiSY’s expanded 2012 Law of Proximity project engages young queer emerging dancers in a contact improvisation workshop, culminating in this 4-day performance presentation at the Scotiabank Dance Centre.

Law of Proximity uniquely engages Vancouver’s young and developing Queer, Gay, Lesbian and Transgendered community in an exciting and informative physical dialogue on performance, art, identity and communication. The project extends the points of intersection between the gay and lesbian perspective, the artistic community and the heterosexually-dominant public.

MACHiNENOiSY’s co-artistic directors Delia Brett and Daelik will be working with professional dancer Jennifer McLeish Lewis toward training the youth performers in contact dance and performance skill development over a period of one month. Youth will also work on storytelling with acclaimed author Karen X. Tulchinsky, and interactive electronic music with composer Stefan Smulovitz, ultimately working toward a performance with audio artist/collaborator Chris Kelly and new media visual artist/collaborator Sammy Chien driven by the young participants and facilitated by MACHiNENOiSY.

Performers:

Aly dela Cruz Yip

Ander Gates

Charlie Cook

Eric Buelow

Isaac Rosen-Purcell

Morgan Condon

Nina Bialecki

Rae Takaesu

Jennifer McLeish Lewis

Law of Proximity is a Community Arts Development Production. It has the support of the BC Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, QMUNITY, The Cultch and their Ignite program, and The Queer Arts Festival.

www.machinenoisy

Queer Arts Festival and MACHiNENOiSY present: Law of Proximity-- Trailer from Chimerik on Vimeo.

on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndTTobcJCfU&feature=youtu.be

info:

http://queerartsfestival.com/event/law-of-proximity-performance

Review on The Province:

http://blogs.theprovince.com/2012/08/15/review-law-of-proximity-ponders-queer-identity-through-dance-movement/

Article on Georgia Straight:

http://www.straight.com/article-749416/vancouver/queer-youth-find-expression-through-dance

Performing in Guelph Contemporary Dance Festival

 After Toronto's Subtle Technology Festival, we're performing
http://guelphdance.blogspot.ca/2012/05/experiments-in-science-and-beauty.html

Experiments 2012 Ontario Tour (New Media/Projection Design)

Touring with LINK DANCE as New Media/Projection Designer for remounting EXPERIMENTS (revision) in Toronto and Guelph, Ontario.

Subtle Technologies, LINK Dance Foundation and Danceworks are proud to present EXPERIMENTS: Where Logic and Emotion Collide as part of the 15th annual Subtle Technologies Festival.

Friday May 25 and Saturday May 26 @ 8pmGet tickets here! NB: A 3-day Festival pass includes one ticket to the Friday evening showing.

A collaboration between ecologists and dancers, EXPERIMENTS probes the connections between science and art to unveil the creativity, experimentation and intuition employed in both disciplines to understand the world around us. For three years, LINK Dance Artistic Director Gail Lotenberg researched this piece with a group of dancers and renowned ecologists, specializing in the study of non-verbal communication. A world of new ideas comes alive on stage.

Experiments “brings together…art and science … in a show quite unlike anything you’ve seen before.” Georgia Straight, Nov 2010

http://subtletechnologies.com/events/festival-2012/experiments/

sound design got into DOXA film festival

I've been working with the amazing filmmaker, artist and educator Pia Massie as Sound Designer in the past couple years on this project. It was initially created for 3 ch. video installation piece, but it also got made into a screening version as well, in 5.1 surround.

It got into DOXA Film Festival!

http://www.doxafestival.ca/festival/films/just_beyond

http://justbeyondhope.com/

collaboration in SFU MFA project "a doll's room"

Based on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

Directed by Pegah Tabassinejad
Dramaturgue: Nazli Akhtari

Technical Director: Terence Grigoruk
Lighting Advisor: Jonathan Kim
Stage Manager: Cherry Song

Performers: Golnaz Boroumandi
Mehdi Sadr
Natalie Schneck
David Secunda
Vic Ustare

and

Voice: Sarah Amini
Music: Remy Siu
New Media: Sammy Chien


This Performance is open to public to get in sometimes between 6pm-10pm and leave whenever you want.
It is part of the MFA Spring Show of the grad students of Interdisciplinary Art program at SFU and it's a good opportunity to watch other performances, including dance, theatre and music within this period of time.

A Doll’s Room is a four-hour durational piece that does and does not happen on the stage. It explores the gap between the virtual and the real, and investigates the absence within the two worlds.
The piece tries to practice absence: absence of actors, composers, designers and production elements such as light or sound. It uses very minimal technical support. This performance is an attempt to study the differences and similarities between theatre performances and reality shows. It explores the space between the performers as well as the space between the audience and the performance.
As the title suggests the spoken text mostly comes from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Ibsen’s play provided me literary with sentences. I treated his sentences as just sentences, and our dramaturge wrote and rewrote them considering no original logic or intention. The characters are equally important, but they accidentally remained reflective of Ibsen’s characters.

Becoming-Chimera 夢獸 : Improvised Interdisciplinary Experiments 即興跨領域實驗表演

Becoming-Chimera 夢獸
Improvised Interdisciplinary Experiments 即興跨領域實驗表演
Music, Sound, Visuals, New Media, Movement and Dance 音樂X視覺X舞蹈X聲響X科技
Man can never say: "I am a bull, a wolf.. ." But he can say: "I am to a woman what the bull is to a cow, I am to another man what the wolf is to the sheep" --Deleuze and Guattari.
It's about relation, not identification. The color red to sound is as sharp timbre to the movement of the body. Like dreams to memory, synesthesia to sensory and epiphany to temporality. Finally we are no one, but a becoming.

Becoming-Chimera is an improvised interdisciplinary-performance that involves live visuals, live electroacoustic/experimental music, soundscapes, dance/movements and new media. The performers experiment and improvise with specific dispositions and qualities either conducted or by aleatoric algorithm. It travels within the Bergsonian sense of time, and Deleuzian notion of becoming, where the creation is constantly in-flux and in process. Likes dreams, like rhizomes, they engulf deep connection between each entities and unfold new dimensions of our reality.

Why does a song, an image, a smell, a touch or a temperature can be so evocative and empowering to you? How much power, affect and contagion are embedded in these memories and sensory? And what if they can speak to each another? In the genesis of our dreams, every moment can be temporal yet perpetual. In a way, every part of memories are improvising and forming unconventional connections, like synesthesia, the boundaries are being challenged and unraveled. In our interdisciplinary collaboration, we are creating an ongoing experimental dialogue with deep intuition, creative technologies as well as phenomenology and multiplicity in order to unfold paths to the undiscovered landscapes.


夢獸：我們得以重組成不知道的什麼

這裡的界線需要跨越，定義需要破解；現象還在進行，維度不斷擴張，沒有獨一絕對，全是變動著的相對；這一分鐘或許於你暫存，下一秒可能於我永恆；當聲音與影像散落在身體，感知將連動而起，再分崩，再重組，又植入記憶，成為嵌合體，成為靈感交合的獸。你說，誰能否定自身之可塑？

Becoming-Chimera的跨界即興展演，讓人為的實驗音像，構成直覺的感官對話，可聞伯格森所稱的主觀時間，可看德勒茲所指的正在生成，旅程無盡開展，朝向未知的聲境和景觀。

你聽，你嗅，你撫觸，你韻動，而我感到無窮無限疊加於我。
我說的是夢，在夢中，我從不阻止即將發生的任何什麼。
(文: 孫志熙 Chinese text written by Andria Sun)

Created and organized by Chimerik (Sound/ Visuals/ Dance/New Media) 似不像 (聲音/影像/舞蹈/科技）

with guest collaborators:
Jain-Lung Lee (Movements) / 李建隆 (舞蹈)
Kang-Te Chang (Vocal) / 張康德 (人聲)
Min-Yen Terry Hsieh (Saxophone) / 謝明諺 (薩克斯風)
Shih-Yang Lee (Piano) / 李世揚(鋼琴)
Alma Lin & Jeff Lai (Experimental Film)/ 林淑雲 & 賴宗昀 (實驗錄像)


時間 Date
3/10 (Sat) 19:30 - 21:00

票價 Ticket
NT$ 150

地點 Location
南海藝廊 Nanhai Gallery
台北市重慶南路二段19巷3號
No.3, Lane 19, Sec. 2, Chongcing S. Rd., Jhongjheng District, Taipei City 100
http://blog.roodo.com/nanhai


Direction/ Live Electroacoustics
Sammy Chien

Live Drawing/ Live Visuals
Shang Han Chien

Generative Live Visuals/ Programing
Viktor Lin

Dance/Movements
Felicia Lau

Dance/Movements
Jain-Lung Lee 李建隆

Live Piano
Shih-Yang Lee 李世揚

Live Saxophone
Min-Yen Terry Hsieh 謝明諺

Live Vocal
Kang-Te Chang 張康德

Graphics/ 3D Modeling
Stan Chang

Computer Programing
Webb Hsu

Experimental Film
Alma Lin 林淑雲 & Jeff Lai 賴宗昀

Administration/Management
Vikter Pan

Choreographic Consultant
Erika Mitsuhashi

Costume Design
Woozy Chang 張瓊文
Chou En Yu 周恩聿

Stage Manager
Yao-Ching Tsou 鄒耀慶

with the support of Nanhai Gallery
Special Thanks to Meta Hong

my interview from SFU

I just realized that my interview from SFU has already been posted! It's so kind of Dean Lastoria to describe me in such a lovely way. I'm truly proud of SFU and really inspired by it's supportive and creative environment. This innovative spirit lives on. My life is so colourful and it's still expanding. Much love to all the humble intellectuals/artists that knows how to make educations fun and keeping our artistry and creative souls alive.
http://cgi.sfu.ca/~scahome/?q=node%2F1043

Recently our School started offering honours degrees to students who have achieved high marks, and studied significantly more than is normally expected. One of the first Film students to receive the honors BFA is Sammy Chien who convocated this June.

Sammy is a great example of a successful student. He took advantage of all the interdisciplinary opportunities this department has to offer … and made some of his own. He learned the strong disciplinary core of the Film Program and then branched out working most recently with Dance on amazing video projections for performances.

Given Sammy’s successes with video projection in live performances one might think that 16mm film would be something he has outgrown, but Sammy feels that it is important.

Dean L September 6/11

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

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)

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.

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

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

SFU Grad Screening

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

W2 Moving Party

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