recent discography
digital publications and work for radio:
editions tympanum features self-published recordings of solo and collaborative work, a mix of live performance, studio and field.
unfinished objects in the field, a solo piece of location recordings and found object interactions made for the online biannual publication Lateral Addition in 2022.
climatic harbors, a short form mix of field recordings, was featured in the Borealis Festival Radio Space 2021.
vague language, a solo work for percussion and field recordings in three parts, made for the online project AMPLIFY 2020.
an island obscured, a work for field recordings and text created with Jorge Bachmann for the Radio Tsonami festival in 2020.
recent discography on cassette, CD and vinyl:
Rooms and Shadows (1 and 3) collects recordings of electronics and percussive actions exchanged between Beijing and San Francisco, a collaboration with Sun Yizhou who designed graphic scores for the project. Released on CD and digital by Ftarri in Tokyo.
Severity is a solo cassette for percussion, electronics and field recordings, released May 2022 by Karma Detonation Tapes in Taiwan.
Sul Filo features a percussion and field recording trio with Giacomo Salis and Paolo Sanna, released June 2021 on Tsss Tapes.
Erosion is the first publication from an ongoing percussion duo with Jacob Felix Heule. Bass drum duo improvisations courtesy of Notice Recordings in New York, May 2021.
30 Minutes on Earth is a cassette released by Beijing label Zoomin’ Night in 2020. This composition by Zhu Wenbo invited eight of us in different places around the world to record sound for half an hour in an outdoor location to be layered by Wenbo in a final piece unforeseen by the participants.
Hirakito is the first album from an ongoing collaboration with Gretchen Jude exploring percussion and voice improvisation working with a dual relation to field recording through site specific performances and playback of sounds recorded elsewhere while improvising. CD published by Full Spectrum in 2019.
Here’s a brief interview with some context.
Adapter is the newest LP from Invasive Species, a percussion duo with Jonathon Bafus active since 2010. Improvisations on drum kit recorded at Gold Lion Arts in Sacramento one long night in 2018. Published by Baggage Claim Records in 2019.
Free Percussion is a cassette compilation of solo percussionists and the first release from Tsss Tapes in Spain.
video documentation:
Solo percussion during an October 2020 evening of public interventions in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Thanks to Victoria Shen and Grux.
Quartet improvisation performed live online across three time zones with Yoko Ikeda, Li Song and Gretchen Jude as part of Hiroyuki Ura’s series People, Places and Things.
Solo percussion for Miji concert series in Beijing, October 2018. An exploration of musical gesture at the threshold of sound-producing and sound-accompanying movements. Thanks to Yan Jun, Ake & Anzi.
Excerpt from an October 2018 improvisation with Jin Sangtae at Dotolim in Seoul exploring intersections of mechanized and embodied sounds. Thanks to Jin Sangtae & Inkyung Kim.
text:
eye piece, text score for A Year of Deep Listening
shanzhai / boundary objects, text scores for Miji 66
unfinished objects in the field, version:
