Talking Drums Radio

This lecture series draws its inspiration from one of Hegel’s crucial ideas—transcending the status quo by abandoning it.

“Masters are hidden among plain folks,” as the saying goes. Many legendary art performances in the world have been ignored by the groves of academe and rarely known to anyone.

“Audio source separation” is reminiscent of the “multitrack recording” that has profoundly shaped the modern music industry.

Based on the sound archives collected by Family of the Puppeteer, a program of the Talking Drums Radio, this program explores how broadcasting system is related to human body and our way of thinking, and thereby produces a “user’s manual.”

Featuring ethnic ballads passed down from generation to generation, this program blends them into a medley so that the ballads from different places sound as if they were formed naturally in the same settlement.

Too loud to speak or too noisy to listen. Can we see sounds and listen to pictures? How do the trees whisper? Would the sea cry? Mountains scream. An annoying mosquito barges into your sweet dreams.

2 episodes in total. (Duration: 10-12 minutes per episode) Between 2013 and 2015, graffiti art had urged me to visit many countries such as Brazil, China, Myanmar, and South Korea. During that period, I jotted down several travel notes in

4 episodes in total. (Duration: 20 minutes per episode) Sweet Potato in the Air is a series of extended interviews from the program IsLand Bar in the 2019 Taipei Arts Festival. Each episode conducted an exclusive interview with a foreigner

5 episodes in total. (Duration: 15-20 minutes per episode) Kitchen is a negligible space in today’s living space, but can understand residents’ preferences, economic status and social networks. In India, some middle class housewife will never contribute their labor force

6 episodes in total. (Duration: 25 minutes per episode) Be they ideas not mature enough to be termed discourses, familiar or unfamiliar friends, items on the agenda or not, issues not seen as politically correct yet, and even the social