Fangyi Liu

Born and lives in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He is a artist, improviser, composer, performer, organizer, He is concentrated in free improvisation, performances with acoustic objects, ele ctronic sound and cassette tapes. He also works on field recording, and is interested in sounds of everyday life.These sounds are often combined with his voice in his performances and musical composition. He is currently a member of "Semicircular" and the Kaohsiung experimental music group "Beniyaben".

He also created a Facebook group called Cochlea and try to introduce the musician from different fields to the new audiences. He hold several performances to promote new sound experience.

He has served as the sound designer of "Yi Ren", "This Shore_A Family Story", "Hollow Ship, Drift through the Void!", "Dorm" and other films. His performance includes TIDF(Taiwan), 2021 Sound Art Festival -Taitung Art Museum, KLEX Festival(Malaysia), Taipei Arts Festival, OSMOSIS-Media-Festival(Taiwan), Stockholm Fringe Festival, Cafe OTO(London), Mopomoso(London). Exhibitions include Madou Sugar Industry Art triennial, ALIEN Art Centre, Taiwan Biennale, etc.

|Awards|
2022 The 15th Taishin Arts Award, The Black Waves
2016 Stockholm Fringe Festival Most Provocative Award, Connect project + Sun ∞ Moon


|Selected Performance|
2022 Love and Death of Sentient Beings — Taiwan Art Biennial National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2022 FOAMS: Auralization, Vital Space, Taichung, Taiwan
2022 ALIEN Art Centre Annual Project, "The Place Where There Is No Darkness", ALIEN Art Centre, Kaohsiung
2021 "Hollow Ship, Drift through the Void" ,TIDF , C-Lab, Taiwan
2021 Taitung Art Museum Sound Art(s) Festival " Echoic memory ", with Yu Chiao Yang, Taitung Art Museum, Taitung
2019 Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video, Music Festival, Findars, Kuala Lumpur
2019 "Don’t, I don’t" @ "Liqueered" in BOOCHOA, KdMoFA, Taipei
2018 Noise Assembly by Asian Meeting Festival, Taipei Zhongshan Hall /Taipei
2018 Anamorphosis & Anatexis, with Yu Chiao Yang, Clab, Taipei
2017 Every Film is an Enigma: Moving Images in the Black Box and the White Cube /Soulangh Cultural Park /Tainan
2016 The Black Waves, Tsai Jui-yueh Dance Research Institute, Taipei Tzoang Tzu's Dream, The National Theater Recital Hal, Taipei
2016 Mopomoso: Duo with John russell, vortex jazz bar, London
2016 KANDALA RECORDS TWO DAY RESIDENCY, Cafe OTO, London
2016 Taiwan International Improvised Music Festival - Jaap Blonk Premiere Concert, Taipei
2016 Jiang shan International Improvisation Festival, with Bob Ostertag(US), Mark Alban Lotz(DE), Alessandro Bosetti(IT), Jiang ShanYi Gai Suo, Hsinchu
2015 OSMOSIS - Audiovisual Media festival, Kaohsiung


|Selected Group Exhibitions|
2020 The Window of Kamishibai, AMPLIFY 2020: quarantine festival
2019 Path, Madou Sugar Industry Art triennial, Tainan


|Sound design / Soundtrack|
2021 Ký Túc Xá, So Yo Hen
2020 Encountering Serenity in the midst of Madness/Yungtien Shao, Yaman Shao, ALIEN Art Centre
2020 This Shore: A Family Story, Tzu-an Wu works
2016 Stockholm Fringe Festival " Connect project + Sun ∞ Moon "
2015 YI-REN (THE PERSON OF WHOM I THINK), Tzu-an Wu


|Album|
2021 Ripples of oblivion / Digit
2021 Two solos in 2016 / Digit
2020 The Window of Kamishibai / Digit
2020 coarse traces / with Kevin corcoran / Digit
2020 Rip current / with Semicircular / Digit
2018 Transmagnetism / with Terrorism Broadcast / Cassette, Digit
2018 Lost a Cat / with Xiuo Liu / Cassette, Digit
2018 Hong​-​thai / with Terrorism Broadcast / CDR, Digit
2017 OAS004 : Minyen Hsieh, Shih-Yang Lee, Fang-Yi Liu / Constellation in Motion / Digit / Off-Recordlabel
2016 A horror story about the wolf and the mouse / Cassette, Digit /Kandala Records,
2016 Five stone powder / with Jared Xu / Cassette, Digit /Senko Issha,
2016 I am here / Cassette, Digit
2015 Bathrooms Meteorology / CDR , Digit
2014 koujie-koujie / CDR, Digit

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2023.08.09-2024.09.01

The Place Where There Is No Darkness

2022.04.15 - 2022.10.30