Eight pieces of free vocal improvisation by the duo of Jason Kahn and Alice Hui-Sheng Chang, who have been working together since 2015.
Jason Kahn (born 1960 in New York, lives and works in Zurich) is a musician and artist who grew up in Los Angeles, and relocated to Europe in 1990. His work includes sound installation, performance and experimental composition. Kahn has been exhibiting his sound and visual works since the late 1990s, and has had solo and group exhibitions internationally, including Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cairo, Diapason Gallery, New York, and Centre d'Art Neuchatel, Switzerland. Originally a percussionist, Kahn later began integrating live electronics into his playing. As a composer, his work draws on electronic and acoustic sound sources to create slowly developing compositions imbued with a sense of timelessness. His work addresses the entity of sound as both a physical and psychological factor shaping our consciousness. Kahn's sound installations seek to enhance spatial awareness through sonic intervention, focusing on expanding our perception to other dimensions of seeing, hearing and feeling a space. Kahn has given concerts at various festivals, art spaces and clubs throughout the world, traveling and presenting extensively in Europe, North and South America, as well as Asia.
Alice Hui-Sheng Chang (born 1984 in Changhua, Taiwan) is a
sound improvisor, experimental vocalist, also an experiential arts therapist. As a vocalist working with extended techniques, she builds intimate exchanges with her audience in improvisation. She creates an array of timbres and textures by controlling tension in her throat and alternating the passage of air and vocalisations. Alice Hui-Sheng Chang often performs in collaboration with artists from various background or mediums. Since 2003, she has performed across countries in Asia, Oceania, and Europe. Her music has been published by labels including Antifrost, Audition, Trente Oiseaux, Homophoni,
Sub Rosa, Subjam/KwanYin, Syrphe, and others. She is the founder of Ting Shuo Hear Say, a community venue and organisation focused on listening, arts and discursive education.
