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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

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