Biography
Li Chin-sung (aka Dickson Dee) is one of the driving forces of the chinese new music scene in the past ten years. He has helped releasing and distributing the works by musicians from China Mainland, Hongkong and Taiwan under his own label Sound Factory (now Noise Asia). As a curator of live concerts, he has brought numerous experimental artists to perform in China, among them John Zorn, Keiji Haino, Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Zbigniew Karkowski, etc. In 1995, Li's album Past was released by Zorn's label Tzadik, seven years later he released his second album Sunday under his own label Noise Asia. The album is the first of an on-going 7-CDs project, with each CD given the name of each day of the week (the tracks will be titled simply by their time frames). In July, 2004, Sunday was awarded the "New Music Award" by Chinese Music Media Awards. Li is now working on the soundtrack for Zhu Wen new film and for Sang Ji Ja (modern dance), and just released a new 3" cd " Staticizer" as duo project with Zbigniew Karkowski.
He has performed under different names and formed several bands. For example, DJ Dee for electronic experimental music, Li Chin Sung for music concrete and avantgarde, PNF for industrial noise, Khoomi Sound Machine for electronic world jazz, Dickson Dee for electronic acoustic,sampling cut ‘n’ paste and turntableist. He has collaborated with many artists such as Zbigniew Karkowski, Otomo Yoshihide, Sainkho Namtchylak, Maja Ratkje,Sachiko M,Werner Dafeldecker, Patrick Pulsinger,Cdrk,Tujiko Noriko, Tetsuo Furadate,Yoshida Tatsuya, Keiji Haino,Adichi Tomomi, Astro, Makigami Koichi,Kang Taehwan ,Lawrence English, Electronicat , Park Je Chun, Jonas Hellborg, VJ Milosh, Dr Das, Martijn Tellinga, Huun Huur Tu…. etc.
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