Talking Drums Radio

6 episodes in total. (Duration: 15 minutes per episode)
It is Taiwan of the near future, a time when the gap between social classes, the rich and the poor, is greater than now. Most people use Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Technology to select the best embryos for pregnancy, and edit genetic codes to further “optimize” their offspring. A new biomedical startup company, NOLANDOR, claims that they can engineer the DNA sequences of embryos to increase kids’ IQ. This so-called IQ+ gene editing procedure is technically challenging, expensive, and affordable only to the richest. The procedure makes the kids’ ears pointy like elves. The pointy ears are the only phenotype of IQ+ kids recognizable by sight.

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3 episodes in total. (Duration: 15 to 20 minutes per episode)
A series of invisible fractured “film”. Each episode of the series utilizes texts of related characters of the colonial past in Malaysia.

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Musical transitions With the development of creative technology, the approach of music making, or so-called compositional technique, can be implemented through computer-assisted randomness and algorithm, instead of writing down the melodies out of the brain. “Composing” is no longer just about

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10 episodes in total (Duration: 15 minutes per episode)
Includes interviews regarding the 120 Grassroots Self-Autonomous Zone, the Culture Basic Law, and irregular interviews about cultural events.

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5 episodes in total (Duration: 15 minutes per episode.)
Singing is Allowed During Classis a research-based projectwhich seeks to recast “radio”—as a space, a medium and a type of technology— into some kind of classroom. It invites listeners/audience to probe into how listening and singing can come together and generate various modes of studying and knowledge production and dissemination.

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