Mon, 18/02/2008
Random Trip is a collaboration beetwen Adrián Juárez (La Plata, Argentina) and Zenlu (Shenzhen, China).
This is the result of an unfinished tracks and raw sounds exchange via e-mail.
Adriàn Juàrez+Zenlu |
Adriàn Juàrez
He was born in La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He studied piano for seven years and then he got close to other musical instuments in an intuitive way. In his plays he comes near a long genre list, going through idm, vocal music, ambient, post rock, experimental, orchest music, afro, percusion, latin american folk and others. His piece "Madres argentinas escandalizadas/de chiquito que soy ninja" (Biathanatos, 2005) was the winner at the "1st International Digital Format Artistic Production Meeting", and has been played in different institutions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Uruguay, USA, Costa Rica, Italy, Spain, England and Austria. His musical pieces "Sonajero Esquimal" and "Hipertexto" ranked 14 at the Archive.org's global forum. He has edited his works in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Poland, Norway, Luxemburg, Bulgaria, Germany, France, Spain, and Italy and he has done many colaborations with other artists, including stream transmitions for SURradio (Latin America) and Raudio (Holland) and the Colectivo Argentino de Improvisación, in which he has the coordinator and producer role. Besides he's in charge of Frígida Records netlabel where he edits music by artists from all over the world and he menage the page Transistor Editorial Virtual, a virtual texts editor in spanish.
http://www.adrianjuarez.com | http://www.frigidarec.com | http://www.transistor.co.nr
Zenlu
Experimental musician and sound artist, hosted and founded We Play! Records, and he is the founder of Neo Sound artistic group, is now working and living in Shenzhen, China. In the past few years, while insisting on independent solo composing, Zen Lu founded and joined in several local musical outfits. In 2004, he joined YOUNG CRAZY, and it was there he developed a huge interest in the genres of experimental electronica and industrial noise. In April 2006, he formed ZenBOBO and by that time he has become totally engrossed in composing minimalist/ambient music. In September 2006, he collaborated with Polish experimental musician Grzegorz Bojanek and formed ChoP, from which an album is to come out. In the future series of release of ChoP, two musicians of different nationalities will be invited to join in composing for each release. In May 2007,he founded Skybox duo with Dickson Dee. Zen Lu performed in New Vision Arts Festival (Hong Kong), SAND Festival (Hong Kong), Asia Europe Music Camp and Clandestino Festival (Gothenburg,Sweden), Moving Closer International New Media Festival (Warsaw,Poland), Chinese Sound Art in Poland project (5 cities in Poland), Get It Louder Exhibition (Guangzhou ,China), etc. Actively taking part both in solo and group composing, Zen Lu has gradually established his another musical personality with his distinctively abstract and visual style of electronic music. Zen Lu also organized experimental music/sound art performance in Shenzhen.
http://www.zenlu.com | http://www.weplayrec.cn
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