(En/Cn/Jpn)
Meuko! Meuko! is a solo project of Taipei-based artist Pon, the experimental music producer and live performer.
Meuko! Meuko! burst into the experimental music scene in 2017 with her unique sound - its shadowy atmosphere undercuts glitchy dance tracks loaded up with samples and toy noises together with A/V created in collaboration with Taipei Based Visual & Installation group NAXS corp. Each performance contains improvisation and elements of new works, combining disciplines of improvisation with conceptual ideas of noise, clubbing, strange sounds, field recordings that conjure at times ritualistic performances with sources tracing back to Taiwan’s own spiritual landscape. Between traditional religion and techno-animism, is the myriad of a cityscape with tropical humidity, its greenery enveloping the molding concrete city blocks.
Release in 2018 on Danse Noire, ⻤島 Ghost Island blends mythology and instruments with electronic beats and cacophonous samples on a release inspired by life in—and the urge to escape from—her home city of Taipei. ⻤島 Ghost Island EP is received as the epitome of merging traditional sounds with contemporary electronic music to bring new purpose to this juxtaposition, using the harsh sounds of modern life to give her music a distinctly 21st-century tension.
"⻤島 Ghost Island Live A/V" by Meuko! Meuko! & NAXS corp. elevates the audience's experience of the mythical world of ⻤島 Ghost Island even further with its immersive VR space. As music traverses the anti-utopian ruins of Ghost Island and Cyber-Dreamscape, the audience might find that this is not a fantasy or a fable, but the mythological reality in which we all live. Starting from Meuko! Meuko!'s dreamscape NAXS corp. builds a dystopian world, whose inhabitants include abandoned statues, floating ruins, stray dogs, and hieroglyphics.
The Audio-Visual project <Ghost Island> has then been presented in festivals and clubs such as Unsound Festival(PL),Transmediale(DE), Taiwan Biennale 2020, Sónar+D(HK), Primavera Sound(ES), Sonic Acts Academy(NL), Hyperreality by Wiener Festwochen(AT), Soft Centre(AU), L.E.V.(ES), WSK Festival(PH), across South/East Asia, China and Europe touring more than 20 Countries in the past years.
In 2020, Meuko! Meuko! act as the leading curator and performer for the online experimental performance “AFTERLIFE網路來生", presented by UNSOUND Festival. Afterward, she co-founded the online platform “0xCORE” with NAXS Corp, integrating techno-animism, virtual avatars, and motion capture in an online multiplayer scape.
Photo Credit by Will Goodan,Tokyo
2017年開始個人現場演出，結合實驗電子即興、合成器、取樣機等硬體器材。
以環境情境式取樣採集混沌噪音為始，在當代賽博城市中聚合沈靜交雜著噪烈情緒，描繪成實驗性音景。解構電子節拍相互混合後工業金屬聲響，每場演出都包含即興創作與新作品元素，微小元素中都隱含了暗黑中的沈思，探索聲裏情感與世界的對應。
2018在瑞士廠牌Danse Noire發行 “鬼島Ghost Island” 數位專輯作品，以"鬼島"隱含的悲憤、孤絕情感，及其原始、遊蕩、超脫的狀態，結合創作者對於身處環境、宗教情感與歷史脈絡的思索，將”鬼島"狀態化為積極面向當代後網路社會的科幻寓言，並與台灣新媒體藝術團隊「涅所開發Naxs corp.」從2017開始長期合作現場影音演出，實驗音像(Audiovisual)巡迴演出橫跨亞州、歐洲、東南亞等國內藝術節與國際電子音樂祭：柏林跨媒體藝術節Transmediale, 波蘭Unsound Festival, 荷蘭Sonic Acts, 巴賽隆納春之聲音樂祭Primavera Sound, 菲律賓WSK Festival, 香港Sónar, 南韓Prectxe新媒體科技藝術節等二十餘國。
2020/10月在Unsound Festival (波蘭)首次發表實驗線上多人連線遊戲展演活動，她擔任“AFTERLIFE網路來生”計畫主要的音樂策展人及演出者角色，同年底12月在台北的空總臺灣當代文化實驗場C-Lab: 360度環景體驗擔任配樂製作，VR版在四月底在台中國家歌劇院展出。
2021 於荷蘭的REWIRE Festival音樂藝術節發表新作 “0 Seleves” 多媒體計畫，結合泛靈神話論及虛擬角色、動作捕捉等科技運用，同時與NAXS corp.建構實驗線上展演平台 “0xCORE” 。
代表配樂作品展出於 「陳天灼+Andres Thomas Huang錄像裝置 : 威尼斯雙年展2019」、「韓國釜山雙年展2020」、「台灣美術雙年展2020 VR裝置: 鬼島-獸觀 / 開幕演出嘉賓」、「空總臺灣當代文化實驗場C-Lab: 360度環景體驗 AFTERLIFE 配樂製作」。