Track description

As an improvised musician with the instrumentation of non-conventional, non-optimised (thus very unstable) noise objects, I always confront the various failures in smaller or bigger scale, and eventually manage to find the way to play with it (and I think it is almost universal condition for the most of the musicians with this or similar approach and perspective). In this case, I failed to borrow the specific model of turntable for my performance, which would have provided electric power to rotate the platter. So I decided to play only with some objects against the manually rotated metal platter of the turntable, with which I was travelling around, because I didn't want to scratch, scrape and hurt someone else's clean and untouched surface. And here's the excerpt from the recording of the set in the evening.

– Hong Chulki

Musician's biography

Hong Chulki was born in 1976, Seoul, South Korea. He is an improvised/Noise musician. His selection of instruments includes turntables (without cartridge), mixing board feedback, laptop, and other electronics. One of his central projects is astronoise (the first Noise act of South Korea in 1997) with Choi Joonyong. After several years of playing guitar in a few indie rock bands and spending time for military service around 2003, he began to deviate from the more conventional way of making/listening music and to explore the area of free improvisation with everyday record/playback devices such as CD players, MD recorders and turntables. Since then he has developed his interest in collective non-idiomatic improvisation with acoustic/electronic noise objects. He participated initially in Bulgasari, the first monthly free music concert series in Seoul organized by the Japanese guitarist Sato Yukie and later co-founded RELAY, the free improvisation meeting directed by Ryu Hankil. He is running independent recording label named Balloon And Needle with Choi. He also has provided composed pieces for several Korean independent and experimental films.

Hong Chulki
Balloon And Needle