Contact Wave: Heejin Jang
02.19.23
Co-hosted by Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, the twice-monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond.
This week’s episode features a special live set from, and conversation with, Heejin Jang, a multidisciplinary artist based in Seoul. Since she graduated from San Francisco Art Institute in New Genres in 2013, Jang has lived, exhibited, and performed around the world. In her live sound performance, Jang presents a set of improvised computer music. She arranges and synthesizes sonic spaces that draw from the everyday and the trivial, forming them into phenomenal situations of meditation or digitally induced panic. Distorting field recordings and sound samples from the internet, Jang creates reverberating forces that the listener can lose themselves in.
Jang’s new album Me and the Glassbirds features the most intricate and brutal tracks of her career. Here, she presents mosaics of sound that endlessly mutate and rearrange themselves in elegant ways. Jang’s ability to position harsher sections against moments of unnerving calmness provokes the listener into a variety of mental states, including panic, confusion, and nervousness.
Jang has played live and exhibited her pieces at The Lab, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, mumok Vienna, Harvestworks, Rhizome DC, High Zero Experimental Music Festival, SeMA Nanji, Dotolim, Platform-L, Superdeluxe, Center for New Music, dublab, and many more.
Tracklist:
Heejin Jang – Buck – from “Trouble in the Camp” (Doom Trip) (2017)
**Heejin Jang Interview**
Heejin Jang – Our Brief Eternity – from “Me and the Glassbirds” (Doom Trip) (2023)
**Heejin Jang – Special Live Set**
McKain/Murray/Radichel/Weeks – Live At Century – from “Live At Century” (Personal Archives) (2023)
Sarah Marie Hughes, Jon Steele, Nate Scheible – To Sway Upon – from “Live @ Jojo’s (Set 1) (self released) (2022)
Zekkereya El-magharbel – Daytimes – from “Daytimes/Nighttimes” (Dinzu Artifacts) (2023)
bu.re_ – falling – “dream sequence ii” (Loser) (2023)
Uboa – Detransitioning – from “The Origin of My Depression” (self released) (2019/2023)
Bernard Parmegiani – Métamorphose du vide : Échos/mélopée – from “La Création du Monde” (INA-GRM) (1986)
Martyna Basta – Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering – from “Slowly Forgetting, Barely Remembering” (Warm Winters Ltd.) (2023)
Tujiko Noriko – The Promenade Vanishes – from “Crépuscule I & II” (Editions MEGO) (2023)
Early Fern – Softly Brushed By Wind (ft. Joseph Shabason) – from “Perpetual Care” (Métron) (2023)
Albert Alan Owen – Following the Light, Part 3 – from “Following the Light” (Apollo Sound) (1982)
Meg Baird – Twelve Saints – from “Furling” (Drag City) (2023)
Issei Herr – Prelude (An Eternity of Light) – from “Distant Intervals” (NNA Tapes) (2023)
