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Sandra Tavali (Wuan-chin Li)
Of the Siraya people (Aborigine in Taiwan), Sandra Tavali is a former keyboardist of the classical ensemble "Indulge" and the well-known metal band "Chthonic". She is the composer for the TV documentary "Unknown Taiwan" produced by the Discovery Channel. Also, she was the artistic director of the musical《Dark Baroque.》
She began her music learning in Piano, Electone, Theory with her father Prof. Mao-sung Lee, and had been studied in the Music Department of Soochow University, Tainan Technology University and earned the Master of Music degree in Computer Music from the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, where she studied computer music performance and composition with Dr. Geoffrey Wright. Her research 《A Performer's Musicological Research in Performing Interactive Computer Music》was invited to present in ICMC 2004.
Her musical works crossover between classical and fine art, film, and documentaries. Since 2013, She started to work for theatre computer music workshops, encourage young musicians to work with deeper think-through creativities and collaborate with other international artists.
Her compositions "Duet in Autumn" for Max/MSP and YAMAHA Disklavier was featured at WOCMAT 2018 and NYCEMF 2018; "Ban Shan" was featured at the International Computer Music Conference-ICMC 2018 (Korea), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival -NYCEMF 2017, klingt gut! Symposium on Sound, Hamburg, Germany 2016, and selected at Sound and Music Computing-SMC 2015 (Ireland); "Dirge" was featured at ICMC 2015 (USA), "River, Rim and the Earth" was featured at NYCEMF and New York Philharmonic Biennial 2016, selected at ISMIR 2015 (Spain), "The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth" was featured at WOCMAT-IRCAM 2016.
She is currently one of the curators of sound and music in Guling Street Avant-Garde Theatre, Taipei, also a faculty member of Fu-Jen University.
西拉雅人,自幼與父親李茂松教授學習鋼琴、電子琴、樂理。
美國約翰霍普金斯大學琵琶地音樂院電腦音樂研究所畢業,師事Dr. Geoffrey Wright,畢業論文 《A Performer's Musicological Research in Performing Interactive Computer Music》 獲選發表於 International Computer Music Conference [國際電腦音樂協會 - ICMC] 。求學期間,曾師事李茂松教授、Prof. Charles Covington、宋允鵬教授、李潤愛教授,並與許明鐘教授學習樂曲分析、黃燕忠教授學習對位法。曾就讀於東吳大學音樂系、台南應用科技大學音樂系。經年致力於電腦實驗音樂的演奏與創作,並於台北/台南長期主持「電音工作坊」,培育年輕音樂人。近年來常與藝術、媒體機構如身體氣象館、經維互動、探索頻道等; 藝術家姚立群、盧盈良、姚立群、吳俊輝、陳明秀、陳偉、劉守曜、區秀詒(馬來西亞)等擔任配樂製作。
創作風格傾向專著於使用冷冽的電子音色表現最真摯的人性面。音樂型式跨越古典、電子異響、重金屬搖滾等。曾任古典(Indulge跨界美聲樂團)、金屬樂團(閃靈樂團、衹樂團)鍵盤手,以及 2008 年盤古樂團台灣巡迴演出之鍵盤手。2009 年起,結合電腦音樂、配樂作曲、黑腔形式、聲音採集混音與環境音樂等多重形式,與聲樂手、DJ、劇場導演創作並發展實驗音樂劇《黑暗巴洛克》(牯嶺街國際小劇場藝術節 2009/驅魔記 2009)。2012 年,率領DJ、搖滾樂手與韓國藝術家李幸俊,聯合呈現實驗電影與多投影電影現場表演《狂喜洗澡狂》。2014 年,策畫「手作:巴爾的摩-首爾-台北三城音樂會」。
音樂作品〈扮仙〉獲選音樂資訊檢索領域專業級別的年度國際學術會議展演(International Society for music information retrieval [ISMIR], 2014, 台灣)、電聲暨音樂大會(Sound and Music Computing Conference [SMC], 2015, 愛爾蘭)、2016 klingt gut! 聲音研討會 ( 2016 klingt gut! Symposium on Sound,德國); 2017 NYCEMF(美國紐約)、2018TAxT桃園科技藝術節、2018 ICMC 演出(韓國大邱)曾獲紐約樂評人Jean Ballard Terepka評論為:"Ban Shan.......an impression of combined dancerly delicacy and cosmic largeness emerges, and the protected god became a powerful force of creativity."— New York (2017, 6)
另有作品如〈Dirge〉獲選 [ICMC]展演 (2015, 美國-德州),〈River〉獲選 [ISMIR] (2015, 西班牙)、紐約電子音樂節既紐約愛樂雙年展展演(New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and New York Philharmonic Biennial, 2016, 美國-紐約); "The Wind Bloweth Where It Listeth (風隨意 )" 受邀發表於 WOCMAT-IRCAM 2016。2017 年與台灣聲景藝術家范欽慧共同創作〈風舞竹〉,為寫給苗栗竹林聲景、實驗電聲與現場鋼琴演出的作品。2018 於紐約NYCEMF發表鋼琴與電腦互動作品《秋日二重奏》,並於韓國ICMC與王永宏、楊政諺同演出《Signal Exchange》。
現為台北牯嶺街⼩劇場/ 身體氣象館聲⾳與⾳樂策展人之一,並任教於輔仁大學音樂系。