Interviews

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“I Throw Everything into a Blender When I DJ”: An Interview with Misty Penguin

·October 5, 2021·6 min read

No Man is an Island presents the first of a set of collaborations with Electric Soul, a Hong Kong-based electronic music magazine and ticketing platform. For our first cross-posted article, we spoke with Beatrice Wong, who DJs as Misty Penguin. Apart from being one of Hong Kong’s few transgender DJs, Wong is also a stand-up comedian and filmmaker. The following article was originally published on Electric Soul on September 10th Read More

A Farewell to a City That Has Changed Forever

English Interviews Music

·December 10, 2021·6 min read

Brian Hioe spoke to Rainbow Chan, whose EP Stanley was released on November 25th. According to the EP description, “Stanley is her exploration of a love past, a farewell to a city that’s changed forever” Read More

Creating Musical Spaces of One’s Own

English Interviews Music

·November 19, 2021·24 min read

Brian Hioe spoke to Ani Hao, who DJs as Ani Phoebe, and is a writer, feminist media strategist, as well as one of the founders of Bad Times Disco and New Wave Read More

Interview: Charles Yu

Books English Interviews Life

·January 19, 2021·8 min read

New Bloom/No Man is an Island editor Brian Hioe spoke to writer Charles Yu about his recent book, Interior Chinatown, which recently won the National Book Award Read More

Pioneering in Ordinary Life

English Interviews Life

·July 6, 2021·15 min read

New Bloom/No Man is an Island editor Brian Hioe interviewed Lance and Stuart Chen-Hayes, who recently published 兩個爸爸. This follows up on an interview conducted following the publication of Double Dads One Teen in English in 2019. Lance is Taiwan’s first out gay dad and their nonbinary teen, Kalani, became the first Taiwanese citizen with two father’s names on both an international birth certificate and an international marriage license Read More

Promoting Taiwanese Indigenous Culture with Electronic Music

English Interviews Music

·November 2, 2021·7 min read

Brian Hioe spoke to Dungi Sapor, an Amis Indigenous DJ from Hualien. Dungi Sapor will be performing at the VIBE Party in Brain at Pipe Live Music on Friday, November 12th and the Hualien Performing Public Space Festival from November 19th to November 21st Read More

Telling a Story About Two Generations in Hong Kong

English Film Interviews

·September 7, 2021·4 min read

No Man is an Island interviewed Kelvin Chan Kin-long, the director of recent Hong Kong film Hand Rolled Cigarette Read More

The History of Queer Parties in Taiwan

English Interviews Music

·December 17, 2021·19 min read

Brian Hioe spoke to Levin Lo, or DJ Rainbowchild, a veteran of the queer party scene in Taiwan. Among other things, Rainbowchild was the DJ that played at the wedding banquet party that celebrated the legalization of gay marriage in Taiwan in May 2019, as the first place in Asia to legalize gay marriage. Rainbowchild currently DJs at Locker Room, CÉ LA VI Taipei, and other venues, having also DJed at the Werk parties, Fairy, and other venues Read More

To Ruthlessly Self-Dissect: A Conversation with Wag6ie

English Interviews Music

·January 14, 2022·2 min read

Brian Hioe interviewed Hong Kong artist Wag6ie about their new MV, Unbelievable. The following article originally appeared on Electric Soul, a Hong Kong-based electronic music magazine and ticketing platform, on December 20th Read More

Toward an Architecture of Sound

Art English Interviews

·October 12, 2021·8 min read

Editor Brian Hioe spoke with Petr Danda, a Czech artist currently doing a residency at the Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei, about his ongoing Soundctuary (音廟) project. The following article originally appeared on Electric Soul, a Hong Kong-based electronic music magazine and ticketing platform, on October 8th. More collaborations between No Man is an Island/New Bloom and Electric Soul will be coming up! Read More

Trying to Capture the Sound of Jakarta

English Interviews Music

·December 24, 2021·4 min read

Brian Hioe spoke to the members of Batavia Collective about how they formed as a band, their current projects, and future plans Read More

用電子音樂來推廣原住民文化：汝妮 Dungi Sapor訪談

Chinese Interviews Music

·November 26, 2021·1 min read

破土編輯丘琦欣採訪阿美族DJ汝妮 Dungi Sapor。原文於香港電子音樂雜誌 Electric Soul 11月3日刊登。 Read More