Event details

Princeton Livestock Exchange is a concert series loosely oriented around improvised performance to create musical dialogues between Princeton students and special visiting guest artists, Leo Chang and CozyFM (Ellie Cherry & Bobby Ge). Attendance is free and open to all.

About Leo Chang

Leo is a Korean experimental musician, improviser, composer, and sound artist based in New York. Informed by his transient lived experience, Leo plays with sounds, instruments, forms, and social practices outside of their original context. He does so using electronic audio processing and sound design, performance, individual and group improvisation, graphical notation, and text scores.

Since 2019, he has been focused on building electronic performance setups derived from Korean folk practices and instruments. For instance, he built an instrument where he amplifies Korean gongs (used historically in folk, shamanic, and court music) with transducers and resonates them with his voice, microphone feedback, and other processed audio input.

Leo is a Commissioned and Resident Artist at Roulette Intermedium, Center for Performance Research Artist-in-Residence, a recipient of a Korea Foundation Cultural Exchange Grant, and Brooklyn Arts Council grant. He has performed in various venues and gatherings, notably Pioneer Works, Pierre Boulez Saal, NYC Winter Jazzfest, the Lot Radio, Vision Festival, Basilica Hudson’s 24-Hour Drone, MATA Festival, Ostrava Days Festival, New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, and the International Computer Music Conference. Leo holds a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Leo’s collaborations have included: Illa 이야, a collaboration with Efraín Rozas dedicated to expanding Peruvian-Korean traditions using technology and instrument building, Young Mong, an ancestral solidarity project with Alex Zhang Hungtai, involving Che Chen and Tashi Dorji; Nakji, a Korean experimental diasporic music project involving gamin, DoYeon Kim, yuniya edi kwon, Vong Pak, Che Chen, Jeonghyeon Joo; Unnameable Element, a multimedia/multimodal performance project with Chris Williams, Lester St. Louis, and Miriam Parker; playing in William Parker’s Universal Tonality Ensemble; various duo projects with the likes of Luc Vítková, Jason Nazary, Jeonghyeon Joo, Erin Rogers, Adrianne Munden-Dixon, among others; composing for the S.E.M. ensemble, the Rhythm Method, and the JACK quartet. From 2017 to 2021, Leo organized Ensemble Consensus, a collective of experimental artists who designed and practiced unique methods for co-creation across numerous projects.

Ticketing

Free, Unticketed