Artists

Coordt Linke is an interdisciplinary musician and composer from Germany. He graduated from Robert Schumann Hochschule from Düsseldorf, Germany, trained in classical percussion. His creative works range across the boundary between the modern art field including dance, theatre, and new-media. He has collaborated with renowned choreographers in Europe such as Akram Khan Company in Zero Degrees, Third Catalogue, and Sacred Monsters, and with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui in Tempus Fugit, and Sutra.

Arnaud Lechat is a French musician and composer living in Taiwan. He works for many pieces of modern dance, improvisation, circus, or poetry. Arnaud is the co-director of the documentary film "Doumadiao" on Taiwanese opera as well as the author of numerous documentaries for Radio Taiwan Internationale on the music of Taiwan in his program "Désorientales". He recently released three albums "Delivraence 9" , "Tanshuman / Subhuman" and “Sur les ailes de l’heure bleue”.

Classical and jazz bassist nourishing projects with various influences, Tang Ming leads his career mainly in Taiwan, Brazil and France. His work focuses on innovating in techniques and instrumental playing, transposing the stylistic richness of traditional instruments into jazz practice, and opening up new aesthetic fields from these different confrontations. Also a multi-instrumentalist, Tang Ming has designed a new type of wind instrument called keyless dedicated to cursive ornamentation, emphasizing singularities and microtonal inflections. Keyless allows to integrate the richness of language inherited from different traditions of the world within the framework of tonal music and supports the possibility of playing freely in all tonalities.

As a musician exploring the sound of the universe, ET Chen believes that music, as pulses and sound, is a phenomenal exhibition of the internal energy of life and heart, an embodiment of the material world. In his improvisation music, he focuses on the somatic interaction between the sound and energy flow. As if in a Sisyphean ritual, orders and structures come and go amid endless chaos. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Chen is a music artist whose didgeridoo performance is akin to a native ritual. The invisible mandalas so created are endowed with the rich and abundant vibrations of Mother Earth, which will lead one through a profound journey of healing and spiritual transformation.

Born in Yilan, Taiwan, Jipo Yang started playing the sheng at the age of 10, nurtured in the professional arts education of Taiwan. Yang’s sheng performance not only highly emphasizes on the aroma controlling of traditional works but also contributes in expanding the diverse possibilities of the instrument. In 2014, Yang founded the art platform “A Root Yilan” based in his hometown, with the main goal of sharing a unique perspective of life through performing arts and connecting people.

Graduated from National Taiwan College of Performing Arts majoring in music accompaniment for Taiwanese Opera and the Traditional Chinese drums, Chen studied under and was well acknowledged by masters Da-peng Liu and Bu-chao Zhuang. He has been exploring world percussion instruments such as the traditional Chinese gong, the African drum, cajon, tank drum, and hand pan. He plays actively with various groups including the A ROOT, A MOVING SOUND and the Taiwan Bamboo Orchestra. He also owns a specialty coffee shop – Sing.Cafe.

Li graduated from Berklee College of Music majoring in film scoring. After graduation, she returned to Taiwan and started her career in film scoring. At the same time, she was involved in dance accompaniment and music pedagogy. She pursued this and received her MA degree from the Teachers College, Columbia University. Currently, she is an adjunct lecturer in major dance schools including Taipei National University of the Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts, National Taiwan College of Performing Arts, and etc. She is interested in finding sound in the environment. With various instruments, she experimentally works with improvisation dance and other disciplines.