MARTIN NG

MARTIN NG
DJ/experimental

Martin Ng is a molecular biologist, turntablist and experimental DJ whose work has focussed upon redefining the sonic frontiers of the DJ by denaturing the turntable and “taking ‘extended technique’ into a realm where virtually any sound making potential that the instrument possesses is open to exploitation”(Will Mongomery, The Wire).

In recent years, Ng has developed a distinctive, harmonically rich and tonally-based sonic vocabulary for the turntable. In separate collaborations with guitarists Oren Ambarchi and Tetuzi Akiyama, he has produced a body of work based upon the fluid architectural modulation of harmonics and resonances.

Together with Mathias Gmachl (co-founder of Austrian digital band Farmers Manual), he formed gcttcatt – a nano-vinyl band which seeks to amplify and extend the recombinant potential of the DJ/turntablist  through the development of novel digital signal processing methods that allow for simultaneous atomisation and re-constitution of DJed sound + image. This interest in mutant DJ practices is further developed in beta erko, a far-out hip hop collaboration with Australian sonic iconoclasts Robin Fox, MC Vulk Makedonski & Anthony Pateras.

Over the last decade, Ng’s work has been featured in a number of major international festivals celebrating turntablism including “Turntable Hell”, a large-scale international collaboration of avant turntablists sponsored by the Arts Council of England and T.I.T.O. (The International Turntable Orchestra) a festival sponsored by Berlin’s Akademie der Kuenste. He has worked with a wide range of improvisors including Otomo Yoshihide, Ikue Mori, Martin Tetreault, Ilpo Vaisanen (Pan Sonic), Farmers Manual, Philip Jeck, Chris Abrahams (The Necks) and Jim Denley etc.

Also performing | Tetuzi Akiyama

Event Information
Friday, 25 June
7.30 pm – 12 am
Book Now |  Tetuzi Akayama/Martin Ng | 25.6.10