Kai-Luen Liang “Techno Babble Sound Bath”
Saturday November 8th
doors at 7:30pm | performance at 8:00pm
$20 tickets at the door | $10 student tickets with ID
This performance is supported by BROILER, an Oracle Egg Residency series providing 3 to 7 day residencies to incubate ambitious new work in sound and performance. Learn more here.
Techno-Babble Sound Bath is a multimedia performance by Kai-Luen Liang, Gamin, and Menghe Jing for voice clones, live voice, electronics, and traditional Chinese and Korean instruments. Framed as an imagined California sound bath—outer calm, often turbulent within—it explores how labeling and rumination shape perception. A real-time system captures video captions, voice dictation, and text-to-speech, then scrambles the language into sheets of sound. The performers improvise with these streams, turning cascading text into sound-poetry phrases, rhythmic stutters, moments of calm and noise.
Kai-Luen Liang
Kai-Luen Liang is a Los Angeles based sound artist and educator. Working with computational systems, generative sound, and digital media, his work explores themes of language and machine perception. He creates hybrid instruments and glitch-based software systems that embrace failure and miscommunication as a mode of poetic possibility.
gamin
gamin is a multi-dimensional artist performing across the genres of traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations worldwide. gamin plays 3 types of Korean winds and is a designated Yisuja, official holder(master) of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for traditional classical piri (double-reed bamboo oboe) music.
Menghe Jing
Menghe Jing is a Los Angeles–based vocal artist, worshiper, composer, performer, and voice educator active as a soloist in China and the U.S. Her current work focuses on contemporary/experimental composition and interdisciplinary art.