ARCHIVE

guest this month: OxDxWx 卵生の生理痛蠕虫 is a solo project of Thomas Zhang, who works at UFO Space Livehouse & UFO CREAtions (a record label & tour booking promoter) in Beijing. His early works were mostly experimental and psychedelic noise made from software, after coming into contact with guitar and black metal (former vocal of Akashic, a syphonic-doom black metal band in Beijing), OxDxWx became a drone metal/psychedelic folk one-man band.

Organizer of 'Freak Young Sound', a series for young musicians who likes to play experimental music. Running a experimental/noise/psychedelic label 'WORMWOOD 虫子捂得(means 'some worms')'.

And he also do some improvisation jam session with other musician, such as Jasen Wade (US), Carl Linkhart (US), Jaw Surgery (PH), Levi Liauw (AUS), Wu Quan (CN), gogoj (CN), etc.

Did opening show for Shoji Hano, Mitsuru Tabata's 1st China tour on April and September, 2024

wormwoodnoise.bandcamp.com

ufocreations.bandcamp.com

"unknown sounds" is intended as a radio archive of experimental artists’ interior worlds, these that are externalized through their work, and the interchange through artist communities. This is an contemporary archive of experimental art-making in communities around the world, the inherent politicism of art, and the social change this may or may not represent. In short, it is intended mostly as a look into these small worlds, with the idea of generating more thought on both human fallibility and potential, and how art can engender hope. Each section here is meant as a studio visit, but also a glimpse into the doings of a wider community and the cultural, political repercussions of experimental sound and art-making.

"unknown sounds" is produced by Elena Botts and organized by the unknown sound collective, an experimental international multimedia collective.

Elena Botts has lived many places in the northeast and abroad. Elena's poems and writings have been published in over a hundred literary and scholarly magazines. Elena has been the winner of four poetry contests and has had many books published. Elena's visual artwork has won numerous awards and has been exhibited in various galleries. Elena has collaborated on, released, and installed sound and moving image artwork, as well as multimedia and conceptual art, and has organized a multimedia collective for this purpose, while pursuing graduate school and academic, policy, and activist work and projects.