About

Yehlin LEE, a.k.a Rio..[1]

Listener = Researcher = Creator of Sound

Born in Taipei, Taiwan. Yehlin LEE has devoted himself in sound art since 2001. He joined a free-form collective “Taipei Sound Unit” called by sound artist Dajuin Yao. TSU concentrates on the listening / thinking / collecting / re-contextualization of humanistic soundscape in various cites of Taiwan. Meanwhile, he began to build his own hardware/software to create sound. He also translated the complete tutorials of Max/MSP, which is one of the most important programming language for new media nowadays. In 2005, he was accepted into the DEA program of IRCAM, France. However, he found that the current academic computer music trend was driven too much by the hype of new technology / theoretical process, while neglecting the subjective taste / aesthetic toward sound, he decided to quit. Afterwards, he gave solo concerts in various european countries. In 2006, he entered the Post-Diplome program of ENSAD, and created a sound installation Painàsonic, which explores the inter-relationship between auditory and haptic senses. Now he lives in Berlin, Germany.

His concept of art could be described by what he called「極樂喜械」..[2]。By this, he intends to eliminate the border between himself and machine process, and takes the computation / proliferation / error / mutaion of this subjective algorithm as a part of self extension. In this endless internal feedback between subjective taste and machine computation, he tries to use the most rational logic process to reach the limit of irrational / anti-rational synaesthesia state of mind in himself and the others.

李岳凌

聲音聆聽者﹦聲音研究者﹦聲音創作者

生於台灣台北。自2001年起投身聲音創作，加入聲音藝術家姚大鈞所組織之「台北聲音小組」，關注於人文音景之監聽，思考，採錄，及重新語境化，同時著手開發個人音樂軟硬體，並翻譯新媒體程式語言Max/MSP完整使用手冊。2005年申請進入法國IRCAM之DEA學位，但對現今電腦音樂過於重視新科技/理論程序，而非聲音美學導向的創作方式不滿。輟學後，獨立於歐陸各地巡迴演出。2006進入法國高等裝飾藝術院ENSAD之Post-diplome後學位研究，製作聽覺/觸覺之共感聲音裝置Painàsonic。目前旅居德國柏林。

他以「極樂喜械」作為創作理念開端。意即消除己身與機械間隔閡，將程序碼的運算/增生/錯亂/突變視為自體延伸的一部份，在個人主觀品味與機械間交互反餽的歷程中，企圖以最理性的邏輯程序來逼近自我與他人心智之間的非理性／無理性通感狀態。

[1] Lee is Hakka. His name is not spelled in the conventional mandarin pronounciation but in Hakka.

[2] In short,「極樂喜械」 could be roughly translated as “subjective algorithm”. In long words, 極 (ji2) means “extreme”. 樂(le4) could be “happiness” or “music”. 喜(xi3) means joifulness, and 械(xie4) is machine. Together, it could be “extreme music joyful machine” or “extreme machine for joyful happiness”, or ……

Lives + Installation:

  • 2007 Gdansk, Poland, Solo concert
  • 2006 Paris, France, Sound installation “Painàsonic
  • 2006 Paris, France, in “Augmented Body” with Suguru Goto
  • 2005 Erlangen, Germany
  • 2005 Munich, Live with Klaus Treuheit
  • 2005 Berlin, Germany, Solo
  • 2005 Krakow, Poland, Solo
  • 2005 Poznan, Poland, Solo
  • 2004 “Sounding Taipei” Festival, Taipei, Taiwan

Awards:

  • 2005 “BIAS 2005 sound art festival”, Honorary selected nd released in DVD format.
  • 2003 “BIAS - Sound Art Collective of Taiwan”, Honorary selected and released in DVD format.

Related Works:

  • Participated in the translation project of “Computer Music Tutorial” written by Curtis Roads,

Academic Activities:

  • 2006 Post-Diplome of ENSAD, France
  • 2005 DEA program of IRCAM, France (not finished)
  • 2003-04 Researcher in Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  • 2002 Master degree in Electroincs, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
  • 1994-98 BA in Electrical Engerineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan