
ABOUT
ASTROJOKE, born in 2000. Love languages: Cut-Up DJing, free improvisation, noise, drawing, and writing. Themes: situated performance, HCI, power dynamics, queer culture, Asia underground music, post-internet art & post-irony.
ASTROJOKE is an artist & curator in the field of underground arts, experimental electronic/noise and improvised music. She combines sonic and visual experimentation with post-ironic inquiry, fostering a dialogue between aesthetic strategy, conceptual art and sound. By exploring turntablism, poem, cut-up and art brut, she challenges the dependence between sound, techne & ocularcentrism. Through improvisation and somatic expression, she aims to cultivate a unique space for human to transcend the familiar and shape new shared realities.
She made her debut as an experimental DJ at Twenty Alpha and has since remained a regular in Hong Kong’s experimental music scene. As a free improviser, interviewer, and graphic designer, she collaborates with sound enthusiasts across diverse platforms such as Freespace Noise Fest, Twenty Alpha, Floating Projects, Contemporary Musiking HK, Lacking Sound Fest, Milkteawithoutmilk, Subjam, Indiecast.fm, and Zenegeist. Through her work, she delves into the intersections of relational spaces and non-linear narratives, continuously expanding the boundaries of creative expression.
Recent works delve into the cyclical feedback loops of existence, drawing inspiration from the solitary ritual of instinctively timing the precise moment to lift an egg from boiling water—a poignant meditation on the flow and perception of time. This theme unfolds through performance art intertwined with Max MSP-generated electronic noise's raw, immersive textures. The result evokes the unrelenting suspension of time, mirroring the inescapable dronescapes of experimental music, where sound becomes both a vessel for introspection and a confrontation with temporal stasis.
Past Projects
2024
Dec
IASPM-PORTUGAL KILL'EM WITH MUSIC III, Academic panel, <Redefining Experimental Turntablism Through Cut-up & Re-Shuffling Of Dj Cultural Norms>, presenter
Nov
Hsinchu 光譜丘 Do Something Educational Art Centre, 概率瞬Jam間, free improviser
Secret halloween rave location, My intrusive thoughts sounds won today, sound installation, sound artist w/ Angela Liu
ABSURD CREATION, 無路可逃的Club Cyberia:潛意識的循環式建設, electronic music album review, https://wp.me/p6i0Aa-2Z4
Oct
Contemporary Musiking, ASTROJOKE asks Yuma Takeshita, LAI TSUNG YUN, Winsome Wong, sound artists interview, https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBtaTffpAMp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Twenty Alpha, ASTROJOKE訪問 Ken Ueno, DJ 誠意重, 李劍鴻, https://www.instagram.com/p/C-J3G2JvbTK/?img_index=1
Sep
Contemporary Musiking Push The ENVELOPE showcase, free improviser
Aug
Beijing You and Me festival, DIY experimental / noise festival, performer, dj
Twenty Alpha, performer, dj, writer, graphic designer
Shenzhen Oil Club, dj
Yisekai Hong Kong, #014, dj
July
Milktea Without Milk, 練功電磁場嗶嗶嗶, dj, noise gig w/physical contact, performer, c0-host
Freespace Noise Fest, Twenty Alpha Night, free improviser, performer
Twenty Alpha, ASTROJOKE訪問 Ken Ueno, DJ 誠意重, 李劍鴻, https://www.instagram.com/p/C-J3G2JvbTK/?img_index=1
Twenty Alpha, ASTROJOKE: Experiences of Dichotomic Language (Studio Album Version), album review, https://www.instagram.com/p/C9rFQGJPjje/?img_index=1
Indiecast.fm, <Sound Diary 3 To find one’s own voice: Does music require system to entail human’s randomness? Discussing bureaucratic language, spontaneity , noise, serialism, self-determined sound, minimalism, and electronic music>, art theory/ experimental music history review, https://www.instagram.com/p/C9O_KGVPsX8/
June
Nplus Sick Collection, Heath Hong Kong, dj, artist, painter
Mar
Indiecast.fm, 《聲音日記 Vol.1》人類的共同語言:私密聲音與環境聲音, experimental music album review, https://www.instagram.com/p/C4smUyQPYRX/
Indiecast.fm, 《聲音日記 Vol.2》完全以自己為中心、專注在一個世界時的聲音, experimental music album review, https://www.instagram.com/p/C48Ki04vmwq/
Feb
Twenty Alpha, 鼕黐匒嚏噠碰泵嚓 初四 引水道游擊, dj
Twenty Alpha, 4x DJ SETS, dj
Jan
Milktea Without Milk, ☆派派幫幫 普哇普哇普☆: A 𝔾𝕖𝕟-ℤ Noise/Experimental Concert, perfomer, c0-host
Floating Projects, Recalibration, performer, c0-host
2023
Dec
台灣失聲祭Lacking Sound Fest, 林其蔚《音結1.4》, sound art performance, performer
Taipei Illustration Fair 2023, painter, artist
Nov
Zenegeist, 茫茫渺渺:閉上眼睛一切變好, film review, https://www.instagram.com/p/CzsYFdMvTlY/
Oct
Zenegeist, BEING EXCITED MEANS TO BE HORNY:華麗龐克艾慕杜華, film review, https://www.instagram.com/p/CyLNeWWPjAm/?img_index=1
Sep
台灣Daybreak Cafe 破曉咖啡, Atopia 無托邦, dj gig w/physical contact, performer
拋蹈亞熱帶 Pow Dance w/ Person Universe, dj gig w/physical contact, performer, c0-host, https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1vzuVefWNidoLkOZ5ctZt-IqNkaXV545L
Aug
Twenty Alpha, performer, dj
Milktea Without Milk, Untitled 無題, Noise/Experimental Concert, perfomer, c0-host
Zenegeist, 消音的生命機器:卡嗞卡嗞聲書相印 Muted Life Machine: Sounds Like Print Tai Kwun, sound art exhibition review, https://www.instagram.com/p/CwZSP65Pc84/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
July
No Man Is An Island- New Bloom Magazine, Dogū Shapes the Images of Digital Monsters: From Jōmon Figurines to 21st Century Pop Culture, art review, https://nomanisanis.land/dogu-pokemon-jomon/
June
The Annual Conference of the Society for Hong Kong Studies 2023, Academic panel, <Government Gaze & Self- Policing: The Evolution of The Current Hong Kong Indie Music Scene Under Surveillance>, presenter
Indiecast.fm, [Eclectic Picks Vol.3] Cold Underwear & Innocent Fantasies : Twee Pop's Corny History, music review, https://indiecast.fm/article/[eclectic-picks-vol.3]-cold-underwear-&-innocent-fantasies-:-twee-pops-corny-history
May
The Global Online Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology 2023, Academic panel, <The Impact of Government Gaze On The Scene During The Pandemic Vs The Taiwan Scene>, presenter
Mar
No Man Is An Island- New Bloom Magazine, The Ingenious Nobuyoshi Araki Reenactments: Manbo Key, Transgression of Queer, Image review, https://nomanisanis.land/manbo-key-astrojoke-commentary/?fbclid=IwAR1k2BLgHIym4enB-vz0_Ocx8zmG3DtOFgEDjkSfOf0dRXaPKQDg1_ktWkA
Feb
拋蹈亞熱帶 Pow Dance w/ Person Universe, dj gig w/physical contact, performer, c0 -host, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vzSXNXqvetEbQacCuPgFjge6BGrjHFZI/view?usp=sharing
2022
Dec
The International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM) 2022, Academic panel, <A Look Into The Creation Of Music Stars In Hong Kong - Past And Present>, presenter
indiecast.fm, [Sonic Picks Vol.3] 酸雨亂碼皮下注射: 輻射魚市, indie band interview, https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl6bQNeP1HK/
Oct
Phone Made Good Film Hong Kong, 艙 TO THE OTHER SIDE, c0-scriptwriter, https://youtu.be/gHdjxHO5M-Y?si=K0NCKCkxjaV7SeHy
May
UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Symposium 2022, Academic panel, Functions of Hong Kong Indie Music Platforms / Hong Kong Indie Music Scene, presenter
April
LINKING VISION 聯經思想空間, <鳳氣至純平:在台日本人該如何看待日治時期的台灣史?>, academic writing, https://www.linking.vision/archives/author/author00185
Feb
indiecast.fm, [Sonic Picks Vol.2] 我是機車少女: 四個星球 實驗室裡演算 波普進行曲, indie band interview, https://www.instagram.com/p/CaUsMuRPhYl/
2021
Oct
Indiecast.fm, [Sonic Picks Vol.1] 34 Pessimists- 純情Sad Boys救世界, indie band interview, https://www.instagram.com/p/CVZrJqIv5Mf/
Sep
indiecast.fm, [Eclectic Picks Vol.2] GRAND THEFT AUTO . FM:拉好安全帶 入碟 發動引擎 頭搖又尾擺 飄移境界, game music article, https://www.instagram.com/p/CTRp9R5n6eg/
April
indiecast.fm, [Eclectic Picks Vol.1] 隨時切入!00:00-04:26 : 抹消文字 任由意識流動 就是音樂節拍, liteature, experimental music article, https://www.instagram.com/p/COKt5Phgmhb/?img_index=1


