Contact Wave: Liew Niyomkarn
06.19.22
o-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 live set from our special guest Liew Niyomkarn. On Niyomkarn’s new album I Think of Another Time When You Heard It, released on Chinabot, the Thai sound artist builds a soft, dreamlike replica of the world around her with field recordings and found object samples, and invites us to slip into her subjective experience. Field recordings map memories onto memories as she jumps between time and place; from pulsating synth experimentalism to delicate folk sounds.
The result is a diaristic, ambient soundscape, with a light, spacious musicality, a reflection of her extensive work in sound installation and film soundtracks. At times recalling the work of Claire Rousay, Felicia Atkinson, Ana Roxane and Marja Ahti, her juxtaposition of vocals, electronic and acoustic elements, as well as some Southeast Asian tuning systems, gives her work a granular singularity.
Tracklist:
Liew Niyonkarn – Live on Contact Wave
Daniel Villarreal – Active – from “Panamá 77” (International Anthem) (2022)
KATE NV – in tune – from “bouquet” (RVNG Intl.) (2022)
zoe polanski – Liu – from “Healing Together: A Compilation For Mental Health Recovery” (Past Inside The Present) (2022)
Susie Ibarra & Tashi Dorji – Mist of Light – from “Master of Time” (Astral Spirits) (2022)
Salamanda – Overdose – from “ashbalkum” (Human Pitch) (2022)
Nobukazu Takemura – Icefall – from “Scope” (Thrill Jockey) (1999)
S A D – Ini Ke Edi – from “Studia Spiritual” (12th Isle) (2022)
Tetsu Umehara – Neu_Am – from “Handwritten” (Métron Records) (2022)
Ami-Dang – Cerulean – from “Healing Together: A Compilation For Mental Health Recovery” (Past Inside The Present) (2022)
Cyrus Pireh – Message of Universal Solidarity – from “Still Here, Still Ripping” (Astral Editions) (2022)
M. Geddes Gengras – Discovered Endstate Always – from “Expressed, I Noticed Silence” (Hausu Mountain) (2022)
Flore Laurentienne – Navigation IV – from “Volume II” (RVNG Intl.) (2022)
magnofon – soma – from “terrarium” (Whitelabrecs) (2022)
