Sounds of Eurasia Podcast (2021)

VAVABOND is a laptop improviser and noise player. By processing  meaningless and fragmented sounds in a nonlinear-time approach, she  explores the theme of ”time and existence” especially in various  environmental contexts. Besides solo project, she is also the member of  the psychedelic noise group “VagusNerve” and free improvised duo “Mind  Fiber.”  http://vavabond.com/

Rajan Shrestha (b.1981) is a Kathmandu based inter-disciplinary artist working primarily with music. Bassist/co-producer for a Kathmandu based post-rock outfit, Jindabaad, Shrestha is an Ethnomusicology graduate from Kathmandu Universityís Department of Music and produces music under the moniker of 'phatcowlee'. He is also one half of Anaasir, a collaborative project with Pakistani electronic musician Alien Panda Jury. One of the founding members of Fuzzscape, a platform for cultural documentation with primary focus on music, archival and storytelling through audio-visual medium, Shrestha is currently associated with a grassroot music festival named Echoes In The Valley.

Heejin Jang is a multidisciplinary artist based in Seoul. Jang has  lived, exhibited, and performed around the globe. In her live sound  performance, Heejin presents a set of improvised computer music. She  arranges and synthesizes sonic spaces that draw from the everyday and  the trivial, re-forming them into phenomenal situations of meditation or  digitally induced panic.

Alexander Korsikov from Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek has been making music for 25  years. He started with guitar, participated in many local bands and  tried different musical styles from classical, metal, punk rock, grunge  to pop. Now he works solo and in various collaborations. These are  mainly underground experiments in the direction of noise and industrial.  His solo project is called Sweet Daddy.

Sergei Khegai lives in Bishkek, but was born in a secret city nestled  deep in the Taiga Woods. His parents both are geologists and whisked him  away to the Kygryz mountains when he was still a baby. There he spent  the remainder of his childhood. He was always fond of music. In  university Khegai started playing as a bass player in indie rock band  "Eholami" which was quite popular in Central Asia. The band traveled all  over the former USSR with concerts, made music videos, and organized  festivals. Now he likes electronic music, ambient, and experimental  music. With his friend Alexander they created experimental hip-hop band  "GLUB-OKIY-SON." He looks to the future with enthusiasm.

Sandro Kozmanishvili has been performing dj and live acts since 2013, at  various venues and festivals like Mtkvarze, Khidi, Bassiani, Cafe  Gallery, Drama Bar, 4GB and others. He is also a member of V.C.V.S. with  Irakli Shonia, formed in 2016 after a long friendship and working  together on various projects.

My name is Vlad. I collect vinyl records. I enjoy listening to music on  vinyl records. I also do mixes at various parties. I do parties in the  following styles: Psychedelic trance, Acid Techno, Reggae/DUB/DanceHall,  Trip-Hop. For more than five years, my friends and I have been doing a  psychedelic trance festival on the Issyk-Kul mountain lake every fall.  But for the last two years, because of the pandemic, we have not been  able to do this.

VAZHMARR (Vazha Marr) is a musical producer from Tbilisi. His work  unites curating, producing and performing within various artistic  mediums and musical scenes of Georgia. Vazhmarr’s Experimental pieces  meditate on variety of genres from ambient to Glitch or conventional  melodic structures. Inspired to re-define the legacy of past decades,  Marr’s multi directional narratives may often unite under the tag of  IDM. However, with a weapon of choice being live instruments and  aleatory flow, especially during his performances. In early 2000’s Marr  was part of indie-electronic duo ‘Me and my Monkey’ (MAMM) and performed  various lives in Europe. Outside his solo-projects, he actively  collaborates with musicians and artists of different background.

Aytegin Muratbek uulu was born in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. As a multimedia artist and music performer, Aytegin's work explores the connection between artificial and spiritual matters and how it will react with each other in the future. His artworks as well as music performaces have been participated in differend local and international exhibitions, including CA Pacillion in Venice Biennale (It), Astana Art Show (Kz), Wachtberg (At), Die Grenze (De). Aytegin was curator and co-curator of Unsound Dislocation: Bishkek (Festival of advanced electronic music) and On.Off. (International exhibition of young art).

Sandro Chinchaladze aka TeTe Noise is Georgian musician and producer  born in Tbilisi. He has been involved in various genres of electronic,  rock and acoustic music, while playing in several bands. His work brings  together a collage of analogue instruments, tape loops and field  recordings into an experimental genre, transcending opportunity for  unexpected improvisation and performance.  In addition to albums and  EPs, Tete Noise creates video art to accompany his music.

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Yuen Chee Wai is a musician, artist, designer and curator based in Singapore. In 2008, he teamed with Otomo Yoshihide (Tokyo), Ryu Hankil (Seoul), and Yan Jun (Beijing) to form the improvised music quartet, FEN (Far East Network). He is also a member of the avant-rock band The Observatory (Singapore). Yuen serves as the Co-director of Asian Meeting Festival (AMF) and co-curator of Nusasonic.

Manila-based, Arvin Nogueras also known as Caliph8, is a sound and  visual artist--sees his work in a continuum. Since the early 90s, his  interest with diverse forms of art, made it possible for him to cross  and merge different disciplines. His exploration into visual and sonic  experiments led him to develop a creative language that deals with ideas  of merging sensibilities and creating hybrids along with their  transformative implications.

Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Kok Siew-Wai started out as a video  artist, now active as a vocal improviser and artist-curator/organizer.  She has shown her works, video curatorial projects and performed in  Asia, Europe, Australia, Canada and USA. Siew-Wai is the co-founder and  director of KLEX - Kuala Lumpur Experimental Film, Video & Music  Festival.

dj sniff (Takuro Mizuta Lippit) is a musician and curator in the field of experimental electronic arts and improvised music. His musical work builds upon a distinct practice that combines DJing, instrument design, and free improvisation. He has lived in the U.S., The Netherlands, Hong Kong, and is now based in Tokyo.

Sounds of Eurasia – Constructing a network through Beuys/voice mail is an international collaborative project that aims to visualize the process of building an artist network across Asia. In this project, the primary initiator of contact between artists will be 3 vinyl records with voice messages sent via post.