I-Chin Li (Piano + Laptop), Chien-Chun Lin (Vocal),
Ryo Ikeshiro (Guitar + Laptop), Guillaume Viltard (DB)
ADAM @Interlace Concert, Great Hall, Goldsmiths, University of London
19:00 PM, 18 July 2009
ADAM Frenzy Sound Dialects Sequnza III Quartet @ Shunt (Un)Sound Concert II, PureGold Events, 5 June 2008
As a composer and a theatrical performing artist, from 1995 to 2007, Li was commissioned by several renowned contemporary theatres like Contemporary Legend Theatre, modern dance groups like Tai-gu Tale, movie sound tracks like “My Beauty and Sadness”, and some film directors. His compositions employed widely from traditional skills to modern Avant-garde techniques, and applied broadly from ethnic fusion to modern improvised interactive theatre. He received numbers of scholarships and funds from Cultural Development Department after his graduation from National Institute of the Arts from Taiwan. In year 1997, he started researching in New York, in 2004, in Berlin, Köln and Darmstadt, and 2005, in Camperra and Sydney. In pursuit of both academic PhD and more live performance possibilities as career expansion, now he turns to London, UK. Li continues exploration by creating more modern music and interdisciplinary art theatre.
After graduated with honour from music department, Cultural University, Chien-Chun continued her studies with Maestro Thomas Gsell in Berlin and Rome since 2003. As a Soprano, she performed regularly not only in opera concert halls with classical repertoire like Verdi’s Rigoletto, or art songs from Taiwanese most renowned composer-Tai-Hsiang Li, but also extended her singing both in modern experimental theatre and Taiwanese aborigine traditional ethnic music performances.
Waka (full name: Toshihiro Wakaike) / Indian Tabla
Waka was born in Osaka, Japan.In 1987, Waka went to Varanasi, India. For 8 years, he worked with Master Shree Keshav Rao Nayak on benares styles of playing Tabla. Later in 2001, He also worked with Master Shree Dilip Mukherjee for 7 years on Farkabad styles. Having been experienced in tabla performing art, Waka has given numerous concerts and workshops in India, Japan, Thailand and Taiwan, and four major international released records.
Yo (Full Name: Ryohei Kanemistu) / Sitar
Yo was born in Chiba, Japan. During a backpacker trip to India in 2001, he encountered the Indian instrument “sitar”. In 2002, Yo formed a jazz duo “Saraswati” in Okinawa. In 2004, he entered Hindusthani classical music department at Visva-Bharati university in India, and began his serious studies in sitar performance. Having had 6 years of experiences with sitar and North Indian music, Yo has been invited giving numerous concerts and workshops in India, Japan and Taiwan, such as Visva-Bharati university hall, Arobind Asram, International development institute(India) ,Kyoto Saga art collage(Japan), Pas36, German Culture Center, Little White House, Eslite Bookstore (Taiwan--, and so forth.
DR.NEEDLES - AK-47 out now on Beatport Hi! MEDICINA NATURAL E.P. DR NEEDLES AK-47 ORIGINAL TRACK RMX ANDREA GIULIANI & LUCCA ROSSETTI GABRIEL BONI ALBERTO PASCUAL SR PERKIN ESTOCASTICO . https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/159953/medicina_natural_ep#app=80ed&a486-index=0
hey i chin! i tried to find you guys on myspace, but i think i must have been typing in the name wrong because nothing came up. yeah, lets do something soon! maybe april/may time? speak soon, ryan.
Hey I-Chin & Chien-Chun, Good to be connected... Are you guys back from UK already? Waka will be back to TW end of this month, Hope to see you guys soon... Lio/Nomads
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