Goh Lee Kwang — Draw Sound CD / Book

Band: Goh Lee Kwang
Title: Draw Sound
Label: Herbal International
Format: Album, CD, 3", Booklet
Release Date: 2008
Country: Malaysia
Genre / Style: Experimental, Avant-Garde, Electro-Acoustic, Improvisation
Streaming Link: Bandcamp

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Remarks: 
20-page, 4"x6" (12cm x 16cm) booklet (paperback) with pencil sketches by Goh Lee Kwang. 3" compact disc includes 98 untitled tracks of dropping coins.

Goh Lee Kwang (family name Goh, Penang, Malaysia) is an enigmatic sound artist from Malaysia.

Goh has created sound installations, sonic-visual interactive installations, single and multi-channel videos, improvised music performances, field recording, tape music, works for radio broadcasts and soundtracks for theater, dance, film, and has exhibited in venues in both Asia and Europe.

Goh's works focus on the various possibilities of natural sound and recorded sound, crossing the boundaries of digital and analog, electronic and acoustic. They go beyond language, allowing audiences to experience the work directly and in their own personal way.

With a career spanning over two decades, Goh fearlessly explores the vast expanse of the musical cosmos, crafting compositions that defy easy categorization. Seamlessly blending avant-garde, electronic, and experimental elements, he creates a sound that is both captivating and thought-provoking.

Review — Neural Magazine.
In a very atypical manner, this work magnifies a euro cent to the size of a CD 3”, before attaching it to a sophisticated booklet of nervous pencil sketches by the same author. There have been as many as 98 combinations of launches of the above-mentioned coin, a fact reflected in the 98 micro-tracks on this album. 'Draw Sound' is an interesting project by Malaysian Goh Lee Kwang, who is now based in Germany and is accustomed to electroacoustics and improvisation, often prone to both natural and recorded sounds. This work is a reflection on the timing of the events, which have been repeated at different points but always end in the same outcome, an overlapping of instantaneous snapshots, a narration of how a simple gesture can be reproduced endlessly and become - finally - a scary clone of reality. It is only 8 minutes and 40 seconds duration, but it can seem a lifetime, 'acting out' purely conceptual 'art' - Baudrillard would say - 'culminating in banal tautology', here and now. "The relationship with the work belongs to the sphere of contamination, or of the infection: you connect, absorb, plunge, as in the flows and networks". — Aurelio Cianciotta, Jan 2009