Johnny Chang


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Berlin-based composer-performer Johnny Chang engages in extended explorations surrounding the relationships of sound/listening and the in-between areas of improvisation, composition and performance.

Johnny is part of the Wandelweiser composers collective. Currently collaborates with: Peter Ablinger, Antoine Beuger, Lucio Capece, d'Incise, Catherine Lamb, Hannes Lingens, Radu Malfatti, Mike Majkowski, Chris Newman, Koen Nutters, Morten J Olsen, Michael Pisaro, Derek Shirley, Stefan Thut.

As composer and performer, his articulated performances have been featured in: Sonic Acts Festival (Amsterdam), Q-O2 workspace (Brussels), ReiheM (Cologne), Wandelweiser Klangraum (Düsseldorf), Cafe OTO (London), The Wulf (Los Angeles), Klang im Turm (Munich), Loop-Line (Tokyo), Umlaut festival (Berlin&Paris) to various experimental music series/venues in Berlin such as Ausland, Labor Sonor, Quiet Cue, NK, WestGermany.

Since November 2010, Johnny Chang and Koen Nutters initiated and co-curated Konzert Minimal which presents performances and events centered around the music of the Wandelweiser group.

ALBUMS


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Machinefabriek
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2023, CD, Album, Mixed, Not On Label (Machinefabriek Self-released)
Keith Rowe / Gerard Lebik
Dry Mountain
2023, CD, Album, Inexhaustible Editions, ,
Free Improvisation/Abstract/Experimental
The Pitch
Pillars​/​Glissandi
2023, 2xFile, FLAC, Album, Not On Label
Germaine Sijstermans
Betula
2022, 2xCD, Album, Elsewhere (3)
Sarah Davachi
Two Sisters
2022
Mike Richard
_Bartleby 1_ (For Chorus, Electrik Guitar, Synth, And Pre-Recorded Back-up Singing-Reading With Plug-Ins) (2005)
2021, File, FLAC, MiniAlbum, Demian Label & Distro!
Mike Richard
Pieces For Chamber Ensembles At Cal Arts (1987-2002)
2021, 6xFile, FLAC, Demian Label & Distro!, ,
Modern
Taku Sugimoto
Octet
2021, CD, Album, Ltd, Meenna
Jürg Frey
Echo​.​Trio​.​Fragile​.​Eyot.
2020, CD, Album, Ltd, A New Wave Of Jazz
The Pitch
Frozen Orchestra (Berlin)
2017, 2xCass, Album, Ltd, arbitrary
Taku Sugimoto
Quintets: Berlin, San Diego
2017, CD, Album, Ltd, Meenna
Michael Finnissy
Piano Concerto No. 3 / ...Above Earth's Shadow
2017, LP, Gat, Score (10)
Peter Ablinger
Augmented Study (2012)
2016, CD, Sacred Realism
Lucio Capece
Awareness About
2016, CD, Album, Another Timbre, ,
Experimental
Alessandro Bosetti
Stille Post. Radio Works: 2003 ● 2011
2016, 4xCD + Box, Monotype Records, Bôłt, ,
Sound Art/Radioplay
Ryoko Akama
Acceptance
2016, CDr, Ltd, Suppedaneum, ,
Contemporary
Illogical Harmonies, D'incise
Illogical Harmonies With D’incise
2016, File, FLAC, INSUB.records
Seamus Cater
The Three Things You Can Hear
2016, CD, ,
Folk/Experimental
Taku Sugimoto
Septet
2015, CD, Album, Meenna
The Pitch
Frozen Orchestra (Amsterdam)
2015
Eva-Maria Houben
Verschwindungen - Stilleben
2014, CDr, Diafani
Lance Austin Olsen*
Scores & Markings
2014, 5xFile, FLAC, Comp, INFREQUENCY
Bryan Eubanks
Anamorphosis
2014, CD, Album, Sacred Realism
Antoine Beuger / Konzert Minimal
Tschirtner Tunings For Twelve
2014, CD, Album, Another Timbre
Antoine Beuger, Konzert Minimal
Unused Pages From 'Tschirtner Tunings For Twelve'
2014, CDr, Ltd, Another Timbre, ,
Contemporary
Jason Kahn
Berliner
2014
Sven-Åke Johansson
Filme I
2013, DVD-V, PAL, SÅJ, ,
Free Improvisation/Musique Concrète
Hannes Lingens
Four Pieces For Quintet
2013, 4xFile, FLAC, INSUB.records
Stefan Thut
Drei, 1-21
2013, CD, Album, Edition Wandelweiser Records
Various
Fukushima!
2012, 2xCD, Comp, Presqu'île Records, ,
Abstract
Various
Echtzeitmusik Berlin
2012, 3xCD, Comp, Mikroton Recordings, ,
Musique Concrète/Free Jazz/Krautrock/Abstract/Contemporary Jazz/Noise/Minimal/Free Improvisation/Experimental
The Vinny Golia Large Ensemble
Overview; 1996-2006
2012, 2xCD, Album + 2xDVDr, DVD-V, Nine Winds Records, ,
Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Various
Wandelweiser Und So Weiter
2012, 6xCD, Album + Box, Another Timbre, ,
Contemporary/Abstract/Experimental
Alessandro Bosetti
Stand Up Comedy
2012
Zachary James Watkins
Suite For String Quartet
2010, CDr, MiniAlbum, Confront, ,
Abstract/Drone/Contemporary
Radu Malfatti
Himmelgeister 19
2010, CDr, Album, B-Boim Records
Radu Malfatti
Düsseldorf Vielfaches
2008, CDr, Album, B-Boim Records
Michael Pisaro
Harmony Series 11 - 16
2007, CD, Edition Wandelweiser Records
Lavender Diamond
Imagine Our Love
2007, Vinyl, ,
Folk Rock/Indie Rock
Vitamin String Quartet*
The String Quartet Tribute To Bright Eyes: Beautiful In The Morning
2005, CD, Vitamin
UC San Diego Music
Sound Check One
2005, CD, Album, UC San Diego Department of Music, ,
Experimental/Modern Classical
Jenny McLeod
The Waiteata Collection Of New Zealand Music Volume V
2003, CD, Album, Waiteata Music Press
Various
Calarts [School Of Music]
2001, CD, Comp, Promo, California Institute Of The Arts
The Tribe
Abe Messiah
2000, CD, Album, Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.,
Jaime Murrell
Quiero Alabar
1999
Marcos Witt
Preparad El Camino (En Vivo Desde Jerúsalén)
1998, ,
Gospel/Religious
Various
Presque Rien
2013, CDr, Comp, Num, Rhizome.s, ,
Experimental/Abstract