Lin Chi-Wei

Born in Taipei in 1971, Lin Chi-Wei is a transdisciplinary artist with academic training in French literature, cultural anthropology, and media art.

Since the early 1990s, Lin has been active in Taiwan’s countercultural scene. He was a founding member of the noise band Z.S.L.O. and contributed to the programming of various alternative art festivals. During this period, he also conducted extensive field research into religious art and music, particularly focusing on temple sculpture and Taoist ritual practices.

These experiences, combined with his work in noise performance and electronic music composition, fostered a critical perspective on contemporary art practices.

In 2004, Lin initiated the Tape Music series, later known as IDCM (Inter human Dynamic Coordinated Models), as a culmination of his ongoing explorations. These are synchronous, participatory protocols that preserve individual autonomy while fostering collective intelligence, often resulting in complex sonic forms.

After performing Tape Music at Counterflows 2015 it gives us great pleasure welcome Chi-Wei back to Glasgow to present ‘All Sentient Being Sounds’ (2025) with Glasgow’s Uzganc Choir.

“All Sentient Being Sounds” serves as the opening prelude to a larger series, composed for 24 narrators, each assigned a unique and independently notated voice part. These parts unfold temporally through brief strokes, evoking a black-and-white pointillist soundscape. The composition employs only consonants and onomatopoeias, deliberately avoiding vowels, precise pitch, and duration markings. At a consistently low volume, the piece cultivates an organically evolving texture in which sounds converge, shimmer, circulate, and engage in dialogue. Its spatiality is articulated both through the movement of 24 distinct sound positions and through the synthesis of spatial vocal fragments into cohesive sonic continuities—situating the listener within a liminal auditory zone between industrial and natural sound worlds.”