DESCRIPTION:
SIXTY SEVEN SENSORY OF SOUNDS, or 67SOS is a series of experimental music / sound art event showcasing the works of experimental musicians and artist from in and out of the region, however mostly looking at local music groups and artists.

In conjunction with Art Week 2014, 67SOS returns in greetings to a new year featuring
musicians Ryu Hankil (South Korea), Yan Jun (China), John Hegre (Norway) and Singapore's own Leslie Low, Yuen Chee Wai & Jordan Johari Rais.

About the acts:
Ryu Hankil is the founder of The Manual, an independent publisher in Seoul, Korea that
hosts improvised music and experimental collaborative projects. He organized a monthly
experimental sound improvisation project RELAY from 2005 to 2009, as a means to share his vision and enthusiasm for experimental sound art. He is also an active member of FEN (Far East Network), a musical collaborative project between Tokyo, Beijing, Singapore and Seoul.

Yan Jun, musician and writer. born in Lanzhou in 1973. based in Beijing.
involved in: improvisation, electronics, feedback, site-specific performance/installation, field recording, organizing, writing. He is member of: FEN (Far East Network), Tea Rockers Quintet, Impro Committee. He has toured in US, Australia, Europe and Asia. also performs at audiences' home ("Living Room" project). his Micro Feedback project is a headphone hypnotizing for small amount of audience.

John Hegre (1967) has been an active performer and producer of noise, improvised music
and new electronic music since the mid 1990s, with projects such as Jazkamer, NOXAGT, Golden Serenades, Kaptein Kaliber and duos with Bjørnar Habbestad, Nils Are Drønen, Jean- Philippe Gross and many others. He has collaborated with Maja Ratkje. He uses a computer, a guitar and some 'small electronic devices'. Lives in Bergen, Norway.

Leslie Low is no stranger to the music scene in Singapore. A music composer & sound
designer by profession, Leslie was the former frontman of popular indie band Humpback Oak, and is currently fronting one of Singapore's greatest musical efforts, The Observatory. Leslie's first solo outing was an experimental instrumental album titled Volcanoes in 2005. He only released his first solo album of songs, Worm, in 2007. In 2008, Leslie made two recorded but previously unreleased albums available by web download, A Walking Purgatory and Black Book. Leslie's last solo work, The Ground, a special album by order only, was released in Jan 2009. He has also released Triangular as a limited run live CD. Early 2014 sees the release of his second instrumental solo album, Longing, on vinyl only. Active in the experimental circuit, Leslie is one-third of free improvisation unit, Snake Blood Union, half of Magus with Canadian drummer Mark Dolmont, and a member of doom foursome Meddle, among other music groups and collaborations. A casual improv session with Norwegian noise artist Lasse Marhaug led to the duo's first release as PAN GU in 2013. Their album, Primeval Man Born of the Cosmic Egg, made it to SPIN's Top 20 Avant albums of 2013. PAN GU also recently
toured Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand and Singapore, and is currently working on a new
album for 2014.

Yuen Chee Wai is a designer, photographer and sound artist. As a sound artist, he has
performed extensively locally and overseas. He has designed and composed sound for
dance, film and TV / radio. His sound explorations take the drone / ambient / field recording approaches. Chee Wai's strong interest in Philosophy and Cultural Studies often finds him incorporating textual ideas and concepts in his sound work, with themes like memory, loss and invisibility as main thought trajectories. Chee Wai was one of the artists presented in the inaugural Singapore Biennale, exhibiting a work entitled The Fog Is Rising. Chee Wai is an active member of FEN (Far East Network) and also performs in the bands hellokittyriots and Light of the South. He is also a founding member of sporesac (Singapore Sonic Arts Collective), a collective of sound artists based in Singapore.

Jordan Johari Rais is a Singapore based musician who is also one third of a team of artists running the Independent Archive & Resource Centre. Jordan also makes experimental films, writes scores for films, paints, & creates new forms of musical readings & conductions through various experimentations. He is the main founder of Singapore local groups Under the Velvet Sky & Gulayu Arkestra. In 2012, Jordan created a sound / music program called "67 Sensory of Sounds", where he gathered a number of sound artists & experimental musicians to present and discuss their works in front of a live audience, while being documented as part of the Independent Archive & Resource Centre's operations.