Fri, 25 Oct
|The Brunswick
Sudden Beams 3: Platform Asia X Chinabot
With CHOOC LY + Neo Geodesia + Memeshift 7.30pm (Main Venue) £9
When & Where
25 Oct 2024, 19:30
The Brunswick, 1 Holland Rd, Brighton and Hove, Hove BN3 1JF, UK
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Sudden Beams 3: Platform Asia X Chinabot - Live performance by CHOOC LY (Afro/Vietnam/Cambodia/France/UK) + Neo Geodesia (Cambodia/France/UK) + Memeshift (Indonesia/US/Germany)
Join us for an evening of immersive, live Asian futuristic electronic music as we celebrate Platform Asia’s 5th anniversary and our commitment to supporting trans-Asian emerging talents. This event is presented with the independent Asian music record label Chinabot as part of Dreamy Place 2024 in Brighton.
Featuring international Asian musicians Neo Geodesia, CHOOC LY, and Memeshift, whose boundary-pushing music draws from science fiction, rave culture and traditional Asian instruments, spanning dynamic genres from noise and techno to acid dance.
www.instagram.com/chinabotasia
CHOOC LY
CHOOC LY forges astral connections through kaleidoscopic spectrums of club music and futuristic sound – fierce and emotional.
CHOOC LY (aka Chooc Ly Tan) is a multi-disciplinary artist, DJ, and cultural producer whose work spans moving images, DJ sets, radio podcasts, event organizing, and club nights, with a background in sculpture and performance. Her practice aims to create new realities by subverting or repurposing the systems and tools we use to understand our world, drawing on concepts from physics, politics, and music. She also co-runs the London club night Décalé. As a DJ, Chooc Ly crafts emotionally charged and kaleidoscopic mixes of club music and futuristic sounds.
Past performances include av_cache, TASTE, GGI 끼, Body Movements Festival, Howl Queer City IV, Queering Now, Décalé x Chinabot (all in London), Swallow (Los Angeles), Regenerative Feedback (WORM, Rotterdam), Chalet Wote Festival (Accra, Ghana), and Poekhali! (Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway). Recent releases include Exaltation Onirique on the Chinabot compilation 5, coeur bioluminescent for OUTPUTS sampler1, and remixes for Metronomicon, Lost Map, and La Boocle.
Neo Geodesia
Neo Geodesia is the alias of Saphy Vong, a French-Cambodian audio-visual artist born in a Thai refugee camp after his parents fled the Khmer Rouge, and raised in the suburbs of Nancy, northeastern France. His distinctive musical vision merges the experimental and DIY ethos of the local Nancy Hardcore and Grindcore scenes, which embraced him as a teenager, with the sounds of Cambodia transmitted into his home via his parents' pirated tapes and videos of Khmer pop, karaoke, monk chants, and movies.
In recent years, his work has concentrated on blending experimental electronic techniques with traditional Khmer music, pushing the boundaries of sonic expression to include noise, Bek Sloy, Funeral Smot, and Roam Vong. His approach has evolved from focusing on heaviness to exploring slipperiness, granular textures, and intricate polyrhythms.
Active for over a decade under the alias Lafidki, Vong has produced, composed, and released electronic music through Orange Milk Records. His work has been featured in Resident Advisor, NPR, NTS, BBC, Mixmag, The Quietus, and Bandcamp Daily.
NEO GEODESIA has shared stages with artists such as Foodman, Evicshen, Object Blue, Why Be, Zoë McPherson, Sunik Kim, Ecko Bazz, and Still, and his music has been played by Drew McDowall, Hiro Kone, Zuli, and Animistic Beliefs.
Currently based in London, Vong runs the multidisciplinary Asian platform and record label Chinabot, where he released his latest album, 2562 Neon Flames. His upcoming album, inspired by Pradal Serey and Bokator music, offers a commentary on the entrenched, nepotistic power structures in Cambodia.
“ ‘Fanta Rouge’, with its pounding drums and ridiculously addictive melody, is the most ecstatic thing I’ve heard in ages, all the more remarkable considering the sadness which surrounds it." – The Quietus
Memeshift
Memeshift (aka Morgan Sully) is an experimental electronic musician and organiser who draws creative inspiration from his cultural heritage and the diverse diasporas of his kin. Alongside Bilawa Ade Respati, Rabih Beaini, and Khyam Allami, he developed an open-source sample pack of Javanese gamelan instruments, including their MIDI tunings, guides, and tools for artists interested in Southeast Asian tonality, called Latent Sonorities.
In collaboration with Rumah Budaya Indonesia – Berlin (RBI) and Morphine Raum, this project was co-released with live album recordings on his label L-KW and Yogyakarta’s Yes No Wave, and is available for free download to support artists and researchers exploring new sonic landscapes. The project will soon be added as a free, public resource to RBI’s library collection.
Morgan’s debut album, Echoes, was released on Chinabot in April 2024.
“…a gently vaporous hulk of melancholia.” – The Wire
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Curated and produced by Platform Asia. Supported by Art Fund, Arts Council England, Diversity Art Forum, The Chalk Cliff Trust and People’s Postcode Trust. Special thanks to the British Art Network and Paul Mellon Centre.
Sudden Beams is a platform that supports and promotes South Asian artists working with sound and digital media in the UK and internationally.
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7.30pm (Main Venue)
£9
Over 18's
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