A HARSH NOISE NIGHT: Mei Zhiyong, Svartvit | Freakout Club

MEI ZHIYONG (CHINA)

Mei Zhiyong is one of the most active Harsh Noise artists in China. He creates unique noise effects by making a large number of noise generators and modifying industrial instruments. His noise works are known for their exaggerated, dangerous, and extreme characteristics. His live performances are full of physical language and tense atmosphere, bringing audiences a shocking audio-visual experience.

Since 2007, Mei Zhiyong has performed in more than 400 shows in mainland China, Japan, neighboring countries, Europe, and other countries, and has released over 40 solo albums and collaborative albums with different artists. He is the founder of the earliest tape label in China, Fuzztape, and initiated China’s largest noise art festival, A Bunch of Noise, in 2023, planning to hold it every year. He is also one of the most active noise event organizers in China, organizing China tours for experimental noise art festivals in multiple countries.

In addition to exploring noise creation, Mei Zhiyong attempts to explore the relationship between life and death and the relationship between noise and nature. His works express the pursuit of vitality and energy, and his noise works challenge traditional art as an extreme, unconventional, and avant-garde art form aimed at exploring and expressing the diversity and complexity of the world. As a mechanical engineer, he also runs a machine factory specializing in producing industrial equipment. He uses the machinery and some special instruments in the factory to initiate a project called “fuzzbox”, inviting other artists to reside in his factory and explore the fusion of industrial production and noise art through experimentation.

Website: meizhiyong.com

SVARTVIT (NETHERLANDS)

Sound artist based in Den Haag, NL. Exploring the boundaries of sound & performance since 2009. Especially interested in the innerworld of objects & bodies, brought to the surface through contact microphones & extreme amplification. Sculpting corporeal sonic landscapes that pulsate with raw intensity. Through extensive manipulation acoustic sounds are held captive in the liminal space between their point of origin & grotesque indecipherable slabs of distortion.

Currently active as/in: Svartvit - Coma Cluster Secret(e) - Floris Jansen

Previously: Clamor - Qualm - Erstwhile Kranz Confession - Sick of Stupidity etc.

Bandcamp: https://svartvit.bandcamp.com/

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