YANG Cheng 楊誠

YANG Cheng (b. 1989, Taiwan) is a Berlin-based composer, experimental sound performer and user experience designer. His work explores the concealed questions within existing answers, composing listening decisions where sound also chooses to listen back.

His practice encompasses electroacoustic improvisation, multi-channel sound installation and experimental music composition. His sonic articulation forms from gravity objects, field recordings, feedback noises, analog radio, bluetooth speaker and electromagnetic fields.



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Compass 2733NW

+ 4 Channel Sound & Movement Performance
I found a spiral object in a junkyard at old Bohemian farm and felt drawn to it without knowing why. I slept beside it under the stars and woke to a deer watching us. Later I learned it once heated milk, tied to stories of land and staying. That moment became the start of a research guided by bodily intuition. A compass began to form from within.


Ü

+ Spatial Electro Acoustic Noise
We placed a stereo loudspeaker front to back at the end of a long and narrow corridor. I hold two Bluetooth speakers in my hands and a contact mic on a piece of metal as my wing. I moved my hands and the noise moved with me—front to back, left to right. The crossed feedback noise became a way of steering through space. The sound stretch the walls before I did.


KahrabaDián 電كهربا

+ Sound & Movement Reasearch
We found ourselves inside a pool of electromagnetic sparks. Each spark was a gravity point pulling in its own direction. Naser and I moved through these organic cardinal directions, infinite trajectories, colliding and deciding. Every collision opened a space. The point of decision is a space for potential negotiation. The space for negotiation is where this experiment aspires to arrive at.


Egress Gateway

+ Feedbakc Noise Performance
I use to play guitar, but not anymore at the moment. During the torhaus residency, I dont know what to do so just keep playing lego with the bruning wood.
Someone brought a guitar amp to the residency. I had three Bluetooth speakers and some mics. We sat by the fire hearing news of forest fires, I was thinking about how to travel myself through electromagnetic forest.


Dust In

+ Sound Installation / Live Intervention
I wandered through the forest, collecting dust and thinking about where it might have come from and where it could be going. I made some field recordings and noticed how present the human voice still was, even there. I found a metal tube and started resonating it with human noise and sound from forest. Sand like patterns slowly appeared on the surface.
Then I to build a tower to document about this vertical circulation.

Dust to the fire, electricity to the metal tower, echo to the water, silence to the memory to the dust.


When fish is fishing you

+ 6 channel Sound Fishing experience
“When you are fihsing, fish is also fishing you back”
Was kind of a joke around bonfire. then eventullay devolpe the idea of sound fishing.

While the feeback noise contiune, how do I cathch the sound fish, and swim with it winthinn 6 channel sound enviroment.  



Pulse Taiwan

+ Field Recording Music Composition
Traveling back to my island and do a roadtrip around it, I recorded all over where train and empty belly drops us. I stopped using the conventional setup to do field recording. Instead I enjoy more fun with microphones attach to palms and listened through my hands. Some reflections afterward.When your body moves further into a place, you start to feel what's trapping you within the distance. Then I made a piece of music for Taiwan.

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TRAMA S.E.A

+ Live Performance
This trip through Malaysia and Indonesia, my setup is more like a DJ concept, some of the tracks and recording I did in Europe is the Base. Then I mixed between two granulator deck join the sound I picked up along the travel. Most sounds came from field recordings, object noise, and easy random recroding intention in holiday. I enjoy the idea of playing sound I'd just recorded on my way to meet the crowd. The set was still forming when I arrived.

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