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Music as a Source for Self-Healing: An Interview with LVRA about ‘soft like steel’

EnglishInterviews
·March 22, 2023·4 min read
Brian Hioe spoke with LVRA about their new EP, 'soft like steel,' which is out today. 'soft like steel' is a release on Eastern Margins, and positions itself on the margins of both club and pop music Read More

Mutual Aid in Late Capitalism: Bad Times Disco’s Upcoming Screening of “Migrant Workers Rise” and Fundraiser

EnglishInterviewsMusic
·December 13, 2022·8 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, about Bad Times Disco's upcoming mutual aid fundraiser for migrant workers this Friday, December 16th at 7 PM in Hong Kong Read More

Pioneering in Ordinary Life

EnglishInterviewsLife
·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

EnglishInterviewsMusic
·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

Sounds from the Future and Politics in the Space Created Around Music: An Interview with Simon Reynolds

EnglishInterviewsMusic
·April 8, 2023·29 min read
New Bloom's Brian Hioe and Florence Yi-Hsun Huang interviewed Simon Reynolds about his views on contemporary music and reflections on his seminal work on electronic music, Energy Flash, a quarter decade after its publication. Reynolds was visiting Taipei for a series of talks at C-LAB entitled "A Future Slowly Cancelled" Read More

Taiwan’s Ecological History as Performance: The Collection of Time in the Polymer Age

ArtEnglishInterviews
·July 10, 2022·6 min read
New Bloom/No Man is an Island’s Brian Hioe interviewed artists Kappa Tseng and Chiang Tao about her recent art project, “The Collection of Time in the Polymer Age" Read More

Telling a Story About Two Generations in Hong Kong

EnglishFilmInterviews
·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

EnglishInterviewsMusic
·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

The Journey Matters: A Conversation About Earthfest

EnglishInterviewsMusic
·June 11, 2022·7 min read
Brian Hioe spoke to Blaine Whiteley about Earthfest, which will take place in Miaoli from July 21st through July 24th Read More

To Ruthlessly Self-Dissect: A Conversation with Wag6ie

EnglishInterviewsMusic
·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

ArtEnglishInterviews
·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

EnglishInterviewsMusic
·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
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