Biography

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Simply put, Goh Lee Kwang has spent nearly 20 years making music that defies description. His works covered a wide variety of avant-garde, electronic and field recording.

Goh has been touring / performing internationally at festival of contemporary art and music of cities in Asia and Europe such as Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, Canberra, Shanghai, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Singapore, Bangkok, New Delhi, Dublin, London, Stockholm, Madrid, Barcelona, Ljubljana, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Budapest, Berlin, Hamburg, Zürich, Geneva, and Paris.

His first one-person exhibition 'Sound, Video, Visual, Media and Installation' shown in 2 venues: National Art Gallery (then rename to National Visual Art Gallery) and R.A.P. (Rumah Air Panas) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2005; his second one-person exhibition 'Good Vibrations' shown in 3 venues, REKA Art Space, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2007; Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart and Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Worpswede, Germany 2008. In 2009 his third one person exhibition 'Wiring' including a 30 mins video, a live performance, 2 short video pieces (looped), some drawings and a sound piece (WAVER), were taken place at Findars Space and Klpac (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center), both in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2012 again he has a one-person exhibition at Findars Art Space, with 3 sound pieces, 1 single channel video, drawings on the wall, and a interactive opening performance with the audiences.

Goh is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Stuttgart, Germany in 2004 -2005, Klangraum Fellowship, Krems, Austria in 2006 and Künstlerhäuser Worpswede Fellowship 2008. Other short term Artist-In-Residency programs including KHOJ, New Delhi, India 2006; STEIM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2007 and 2010; WORM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2007, and Green Papaya, Manila, Philippines 2007.

Goh is the founder of Switch ON, a platform for electronic arts in kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Goh is also the founder of Herbal Records, a music CD publishing label, Herbal released recordings by Eric Cordier, Eric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Cédric Peyronnet, Beequeen, Roel Meelkop, Sabine Ercklentz, Andrea Neumann, Jason Kahn, Zbigniew Karkowski and many others.

Goh is currently live and work in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Negarakukuku

其實我不想講黃明志，因為我不認識他，更沒有欠他錢，他也沒有欠我錢，不過現在我卻講他，不是因為他又上新聞。

首先聲明，除了當年那首《Negarakuku》，我沒有聽過其他黃的歌，也幾乎沒有留意黃的新聞或動向，不過我知道他很紅，in and out都會有人提起他。除了講中文的地方，甚至在東歐國家也有人向我問起他。當然我的標準回答只是：“哦。”之外沒有評語（我原本寫comment，不過我改了，因為保持純中文比較好），因為我也不知道怎樣評。

關於黃，我要講的，也不是針對他，雖然通過各個管道的信息，他喜歡玩針對，不過我沒有確認，所以我不是針對他，只是一般觀點（我原本寫in general，不過我改了，因為保持純中文比較好）。

所以，我的一般觀點就是，不是每個時候我們都要看優點，然後就贊那些優點，而忽略了那些缺點。比如說，我們不會贊Isis的信仰很虔誠，也不能稱讚某冷血殺手頭腦冷靜、心思缜密、身手敏捷、槍法如神，原因是因為這些優點最終傷及他人，導致禍害。

就這麼簡單。

Six (6) New Releases On Bandcamp in January 2018

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High Castle



Blow Up



Stoned Storm



South Sun



Tornado

Four (4) New Releases On Bandcamp in 2018

Travel To The Stars




Digital Wildlife



Nuits



Sunset Morning

The River Is Our School 【School Is Cool​!​!】

In 2013 I formed a studio band called The River Is Our School (Don't ask how and why the name came from), it is basically doing loosely composed lo-fi, minimal pieces.

This more then 300 minute compilation is the band's complete studio recording between 2013 to 2016, included 1 previously never release track "School Holiday" recorded in 2013, a piece title "Angry Bird (2014)" which not in the archive but found online, a 2015 remastered version of "Hope", and collaboration project with DJ Misc. in 2016.

Back2Bed 不安于室 Pre-order

The next CD by Goh Lee Kwang is looking to release on the first half of 2016. It is going to be the third installment of trilogy following "Nerve Center 神经中枢" (2002) and "Hands 推敲琢磨" (2009). Since early 2015, 4 (in progress) EPs has been make available on Bandcamp (Title: Back2Bed 不安于室 (In Progress Album) EP 1 - 4). 

Goh Lee Kwang is sound artist from Malaysia, when he was asked what is this upcoming "Back2Bed 不安于室" about? His answer is simple: "Sound art. I can't think of another term."

"Back2Bed 不安于室" is now available for pre-order, CD per unit is 40MYR (Malaysian only) / 12EUR (+ Shipping 6EUR worldwide). Goodie for early bird? Pre-order will get a special gift of 4 EPs CDR!

To make your pre-order, you can email to goh.leekwang@gmail.com with email title "Pre-order Back2Bed" (direct, no middle man).

Pre-order available NOW, until end of March 2016. CD looking to be release before June 2016!

Thank you very much!
glk
Dec 8, 2015

Links:
Back2Bed 不安于室 (In Progress Album) EP1
Back2Bed 不安于室 (In Progress Album) EP2
Back2Bed 不安于室 (In Progress Album) EP3
Back2Bed 不安于室 (In Progress Album) EP4
"Hands 推敲琢磨"  (2009)
"Nerve Center 神经中枢" (2002)

Back2Bed 不安于室 (In Progress Album) EP2

Big Wave [Great Wave]

Big Wave [Undercurrents]

Back2Bed 不安于室 (In Progress Album) EP1

Dear friends,

This is the first EP of the materials I 've been working on for the next solo album since the past two years (or even way before when I started to collect the materials). The plan is to release the album this year, but it's hard to say as the works are keep on growing, and the source materials are all over the places (and growing too).

Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, "Back2Bed 不安于室 (In Progress Album) EP1" is up now on Bandcamp! Please check it out, and hope you will like it!

Enjoy!

PS: I always like the idea of trilogy, the "Back2Bed 不安于室" will be the third installment following the "Nerve Center 神经中枢 (2002)" and "Hands 推敲琢磨 (2009)".

https://gohleekwang.bandcamp.com/album/back2bed-in-progress-album-ep1