Author - Vivian Hua 華婷婷

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Vivian Hua 華婷婷 (they/she) is a writer, filmmaker, and organizer. As the Executive Director of Northwest Film Forum in Seattle and Editor-in-Chief of the interdisciplinary arts publication, REDEFINE, much of their work unifies their metaphysical interests with their belief that art can positively transform the self and society. Vivian regularly shares human-centered stories through their storytelling newsletter, RAMBLIN’ WITH VEE! In 2021, they will begin production on a BIPOC metaphysical comedy film entitled RECKLESS SPIRITS. They are passionate about cultural spaces, sustainable practices, and finding ways to covertly and overtly disrupt oppressive structures. YEAH!
Space 1.8 is the highly anticipated debut album by London-based Caribbean-Belgian composer, producer, and musician Nala Sinephro. Composed after Sinephro experienced a serious health scare, the album’s warm textures and methodically slow pacing speak to the artist’s journey towards healing. In the album’s press release, she reflects, “Recording the album was deeply medicinal and what my body needed at that time. I became more focused on the inner workings of the body and created a sonic world that helped me heal.”⠀ ⠀ READ THE REVIEW BY MILES GINOZA @weeaboo.diaspora - http://bit.ly/redefinenala⠀ ⠀ ///⠀ ⠀ Released by British heavyweight Warp Records, Space 1.8 was composed, produced, engineered, recorded, and mixed by Sinephro and features an ensemble cast of talented musicians from the UK’s budding jazz scene. The album opens with a slowness that invites mindfulness and reflection. “Space 1” features Sinephro on modular synthesizers and pedal harp. Droning synths quietly ease in, warm like gentle rays of sunlight peeking through tree branches. Field recordings of birds chirping fill the spaces in between, a homage to Sinephro’s childhood memories spent in the Sonian Forest in Belgium. When at last her harp emerges, it mimics the phrasing of these bird calls with staccato plucks that fade in and out of the foreground. A fitting place to begin a healing meditation.⠀ ⠀ @warprecords @nalasinephro #UKJazz #Drone #UnitedKingdomMusicians #UnitedKingdomMusician #UnitedKingdomMusic #UKMusician #UKMusicians #UKMusic #Drone #Harp #REDEFINEmagazine #REDEFINEmag #ExperimentalMusic #MusicJournalism #MusicInterview #MusicInterviews #MusicFeature #MusicFeatures #MusicMagazine #ElectronicMusic #Jazz
Space 1.8 is the highly anticipated debut album by London-based Caribbean-Belgian composer, producer, and musician Nala Sinephro. Composed after Sinephro experienced a serious health scare, the album’s warm textures and methodically slow pacing speak to the artist’s journey towards healing. In the album’s press release, she reflects, “Recording the album was deeply medicinal and what my body needed at that time. I became more focused on the inner workings of the body and created a sonic world that helped me heal.”⠀ ⠀ READ THE REVIEW BY MILES GINOZA @weeaboo.diaspora - http://bit.ly/redefinenala⠀ ⠀ ///⠀ ⠀ Released by British heavyweight Warp Records, Space 1.8 was composed, produced, engineered, recorded, and mixed by Sinephro and features an ensemble cast of talented musicians from the UK’s budding jazz scene. The album opens with a slowness that invites mindfulness and reflection. “Space 1” features Sinephro on modular synthesizers and pedal harp. Droning synths quietly ease in, warm like gentle rays of sunlight peeking through tree branches. Field recordings of birds chirping fill the spaces in between, a homage to Sinephro’s childhood memories spent in the Sonian Forest in Belgium. When at last her harp emerges, it mimics the phrasing of these bird calls with staccato plucks that fade in and out of the foreground. A fitting place to begin a healing meditation.⠀ ⠀ @warprecords @nalasinephro #UKJazz #Drone #UnitedKingdomMusicians #UnitedKingdomMusician #UnitedKingdomMusic #UKMusician #UKMusicians #UKMusic #Drone #Harp #REDEFINEmagazine #REDEFINEmag #ExperimentalMusic #MusicJournalism #MusicInterview #MusicInterviews #MusicFeature #MusicFeatures #MusicMagazine #ElectronicMusic #Jazz
It was an emotional return to concerts after over a year of uncertainty surrounding the future of live music. LUNA LI and JAPANESE BREAKFAST’s second sold out show on Friday, October 1st in San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom seemed to offer the space to process complicated feelings: of trepidation about being surrounded by people in a crowded indoor space, of the ending of summer, of seeing favorite artists perform live again...⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Opener Luna Li offered one vision of the ending of summer — one of dreamy contentment and ease, unhurried, unbothered, simply savoring each moment. Japanese Breakfast’s vision was more passionate, filled with grand gestures, lights flashing like fireworks, guitars wailing, and the sentimental yearning for summer to never end. Paired together, their performances were a fitting farewell to summer and a refreshing look forward to the future of live music, and the continuation of, in Japanese Breakfast frontwoman Michelle Zauner’s words, “our dream job.”⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Read the full live show review by Miles Ginoza @weeaboo.diaspora over at REDEFINE - http://bit.ly/redefineluna⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ Pictured: JAPANESE BREAKFAST @jbrekkie⠀ ⠀⠀ ///⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ @theregencyballroom @jlunaliband @deadoceans #DeadOceans #JapaneseBreakfast #LunaLi #AsianAmericanMusician #AsianAmericanMusicians #AAMusician #AAMusicians #IndiePop #IndieRock #Indie #Pop #REDEFINEmagazine #REDEFINEmag #ExperimentalMusic #MusicJournalism #MusicInterview #MusicInterviews #MusicFeature #MusicFeatures #MusicMagazine #LiveShowReview #LiveShowReviews
It was an emotional return to concerts after over a year of uncertainty surrounding the future of live music. LUNA LI and JAPANESE BREAKFAST’s second sold out show on Friday, October 1st in San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom seemed to offer the space to process complicated feelings: of trepidation about being surrounded by people in a crowded indoor space, of the ending of summer, of seeing favorite artists perform live again...⠀ ⠀ Opener Luna Li offered one vision of the ending of summer — one of dreamy contentment and ease, unhurried, unbothered, simply savoring each moment. Japanese Breakfast’s vision was more passionate, filled with grand gestures, lights flashing like fireworks, guitars wailing, and the sentimental yearning for summer to never end. Paired together, their performances were a fitting farewell to summer and a refreshing look forward to the future of live music, and the continuation of, in Japanese Breakfast frontwoman Michelle Zauner’s words, “our dream job.”⠀ ⠀ Read the full live show review by Miles Ginoza @weeaboo.diaspora over at REDEFINE - http://bit.ly/redefineluna⠀ ⠀ Pictured: LUNA LI @lunaliband - Photo by Felice Trinidad @felice.c0m⠀ ⠀ ///⠀ ⠀ @theregencyballroom @jbrekkie @deadoceans #DeadOceans #JapaneseBreakfast #LunaLi #AsianAmericanMusician #AsianAmericanMusicians #AAMusician #AAMusicians #IndiePop #IndieRock #Indie #Pop #REDEFINEmagazine #REDEFINEmag #ExperimentalMusic #MusicJournalism #MusicInterview #MusicInterviews #MusicFeature #MusicFeatures #MusicMagazine #LiveShowReview #LiveShowReviews
Interview with @liv_musiq coming soon! The other night at @barboza206 ... #SeattleMusic #SeattleMusicians #SeattleMusician #Livt #Barboza #RNB #SOUL #Hip-hop @hrvsthouse
In a new interview with @DeantoniParks, Zach Frimmel @zachgeist speaks to him about the Archeology of “A Self” & Technoself Philosophy - http://bit.ly/redefineself⠀ ⠀ Throughout Deantoni Parks’ 20-plus-year career as a prolific, experimental drummer and record producer, he has collaborated with luminaries such as Flying Lotus, Sade, and more deeply with the Velvet Underground’s John Cale and Mars Volta’s Omar Rodriguez-Lopez. In his eponymous solo project, Parks pushes the limits of beatmaking, and in his project with Nick Kasper, @WeAreDarkAngelsOfficial, the duo evolves beyond conventional, band-shaped formulas for creating music...⠀ ⠀ “Each one of us has a possibility to the archeology of ourselves. There are parts of us, including our mind, that we’re ignorant to. Each one of our cells contains an immense amount of information and potential power that we are sitting on, and a lot of the time the possibilities are dormant, but they are there for us.” - Deantoni Parks⠀ ⠀ Learn more about that method over on REDEFINE ~ http://bit.ly/redefineself⠀ ⠀ A Self is out now on @LeavingRecords, which is part of Deantoni Parks' prolific output!! ⠀ ⠀ #DeantoniParks #LeavingRecords #TechnoselfMethod #TechnoselfPhilosophy #REDEFINEmagazine #REDEFINEmag #ExperimentalMusic #MusicJournalism #MusicInterview #MusicInterviews #MusicFeature #MusicFeatures #MusicMagazine #ElectronicMusic #Jazz
MUSIC VIDEO PREMIERE! “Manor Holes High Rise” by musician #JanJulius @yawnjewel and animator #NickMcKernan @a_ceilingless_sky presents struggles faced by BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities, especially amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, centering a diverse set of visibly trans characters. READ: http://bit.ly/redefinejan Jan Julius (Musician): [The LP] Meat Shot Idyllic as a whole is wrestling with our apocalyptic times and finding moments of joy and resilience in queer communities, which “Manor Holes” exemplifies. I’m trying to make queer, anti-fascist art that speaks to our times, and speaks to communities surviving the interlocked crises of capitalism and global warming that we’re experiencing right now. I wrote most of the lyrics to the song before COVID-19 hit, but the pandemic has highlighted how severe the housing crisis is, and how little our institutions are willing to do to ensure poor people have housing. “Manor Holes High Rise” shows a not-unattainable utopian daydream of life free of parasitic landlords and institutions, where marginalized communities can support and protect one another. #PortlandFilm #PortlandFilms #PortlandFilmmaker #PortlandFilmmakers #MusicVideo #MusicVideos #MusicVideoPremiere #PDXMusician #PDXMusicians #MusicJournalism #PDXMusic #QueerMusician #QueerMusicians #TransMusician #TransMusicians #PopMusic #ExperimentalPop
New interview with @swimteamforever and @campanazone about their recent level up from collaborating on music videos to narrative short films that are dualistically dramatic and comedic -- plus a low-budget filmmaking run-in with the police. 😬 READ THE FULL INTERVIEW: bit.ly/redefinetimematters /// With the 24-minute narrative short film, Matter of Time, Seattle-based production company swimteam join forces with hip-hop musician T.J. Bell, aka Campana, to create their most ambitious collaboration to date. Matter of Time follows a young Black man as he moves through the world and struggles to survive. The short film starts off as a crime drama full of drug deals and charismatic gangsters, but soon devolves gloriously into an off-beat comedy. All along, its mood shifts somehow remain cohesive, woven together by slick editing and an underlying soundtrack by Campana’s album of the same name... “We’ve always been doing music videos forever or little recaps…” say swimteam. “It was in our bucket list to get a short film under our belt; to see if we can even do it. We challenged ourselves and really liked how it turned out.” /// Watch Matter of Time at @nwfilmforum during Local Sightings between September 16-26 virtually with in-person on the 24th @ 7pm: bit.ly/locosight2021hear /// #SeattleFilm #SeattleFilms #SeattleFilmmaker #SeattleFilmmakers #NWFilm #PacificNWFilms #PortlandFilm #PortlandFilms #PortlandFilmmaker #PortlandFilmmakers #PacificNWFilmmaker #PacificNWFilmmakers
“For Housepartysea, we try to represent the underground culture and present it to the masses in a digestible way to later lead them to the real rawness of it all,” says Arel Watson, Founder, Creative Director, and DJ at Housepartysea. “In that alone, I feel like the underground DIY culture is a political movement in itself due to the history of example to house, techno, and punk. It’s Black, it’s powerful, and it all arose during the most intense times in America. We try to emulate that energy by creating a space that embarks culture learnings and the changes we want to see in Seattle. Best way to describe it is by doing it, not just saying what we are doing. Actions speak louder than words.”⠀ ⠀ Photo courtesy of Arel Watson & Housepartysea⠀ ⠀ ///⠀ ⠀ In the long-form feature, "A United Cultural Front: DIY Spaces & Culture Sustain Life Through the Pandemic," DIY organizers and organizations from around the United States share their experiences during and following the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and racial reckonings of the year, along with how these landmark events forced their already adaptable communities to reassess their values.⠀ ⠀ READ IT ON REDEFINE: http://bit.ly/redefine2021diy⠀ ⠀ Article by Vivian Hua @hellomynameisvee⠀ ⠀ ///⠀ ⠀ * COLLECTIVES *⠀ @babexhouse (Seattle / Detroit)⠀ @housepartysea (Seattle)⠀ PO Box Collective (Chicago)⠀ @toe___jam (Seattle)⠀ TUF (Seattle)⠀ ⠀ * ORGANIZATIONS *⠀ @veraproject (Seattle)⠀ Redfishhbowl (Pittburgh)⠀ Civic Media Center (Gainsville)⠀ ⠀ #DIY #DIYVenue #DIYSpaces #DIYShow #DIYOrganization #DIYVenues #DIYSpace #DIYShows #DIYOrganizations #DIYCollective #DIYParty #DIYParties #DIYCollectives #DIYLife #CollectiveCare #MutualAid #ArelWatson #Housepartysea #Redfishbowl #BabeHouse
"It’s a gentle attempt at a Looney Tunes / Carl Stalling type of thing, where we’re getting a 1-to-1 fraudulent representation on screen of the sounds we hear. A tiptoeing porky pig sounds like a xylophone ascending. A puppet shaking an ancient bowl sounds like this." - Dylan Pecora In Los Angeles-based musician @patrickshiroishi‘s latest music video for “To Kill a Wind-Up Bird,” excitable free jazz comes face-to-wrinkly-puppet-face with a Looney Tunes-inspired experiment, which sets skronking sounds to mismatched visuals. Sculptor and video artist Dylan Pecora and Shiroishi offer some insight and behind-the-scenes looks into the process in the following music video premiere and interview! READ IT: https://bit.ly/redefinewindup Record out soon via @AmericanDreamsRecords <3 Picture #1: Film still Picture #2: Puppet work-in-progress #AmericanDreamsRecords #PatrickShiroishi #JapaneseAmerican #Hideki #JapaneseAmericanMusician #JapaneseAmericanMusicians #AsianAmericanMusician #AsianAmericanMusicians #FreeJazz #SouthernCaliforniaMusician #SouthernCaliforniaMusicians #DylanPecora #Experimental #LooneyTunes #CarlStalling #Skronking #Puppetry #Sculpture
HEAR FOR IT: Pacific Northwest Music Videos takes place at @NWFilmForum in Seattle during Local Sightings Film Festival: bit.ly/locosight2021hear Featuring new Pacific Northwest music videos, stitched together by the human emotions of loneliness, empowerment, breakthroughs and healing. Encompassing hip-hop, R&B, electronic, folk, choral, and numerous other genres, as well as long-form music videos set to a narrative.             Available virtually: Sep. 16–26, 2021 In-person screening at NWFF: Sep. 24 at 7pm PT             * This program is co-presented with @hrvsthouse, @veraproject and @redefinemag *    Featuring works by: - Bukky Sky – "Obsession" - Golda Sargento – "Anino Rebellion" - Nicholas Ogum – "Worthless" - Dolphin Midwives – "Clearing" - Nalimu – "Love in the Time of Corona" - Livt – "SADE TO INFINITY" - Sportstar – "Boots" - Seattle Pro Musica – "My Heart Be Brave" - BOjM – "CHASSÉ CHASSÉ" - Friends of Sage – "Illegal Teenage Montage" - Cody Jordan – "Only Thing Defined" - Golden from the Get Go – "Hey I Know You" - Nic Masangkay – "STAR" - Campana – "Matter of Time"                 GET TICKETS: bit.ly/locosight2021hear *** MAIN IMAGE: Bukky Sky – "Obsession" A singer balances love and heartache in this retro space escapade. (Hajin Yoo, US, 2021, 4 min) #FilmFestivals #SeattleFilm #SeattleFilms #SeattleFilmmaker #NWFF #NWFilmForum #NWFilms #NWFilmmakers #NWFilmmaker #SeattleFilmmakers #NWFilm #PacificNWFilms #FilmEducation #FilmWorkshops #LocalSightings2021 #LocalFilmmakers
In Los Angeles-based musician @patrickshiroishi‘s latest music video for “To Kill a Wind-Up Bird,” excitable free jazz comes face-to-wrinkly-puppet-face with a Looney Tunes-inspired experiment, which sets skronking sounds to mismatched visuals. Sculptor and video artist Dylan Pecora and Shiroishi offer some insight and behind-the-scenes looks into the process in the following music video premiere and interview: https://bit.ly/redefinewindup "It’s a gentle attempt at a Looney Tunes / Carl Stalling type of thing, where we’re getting a 1-to-1 fraudulent representation on screen of the sounds we hear. A tiptoeing porky pig sounds like a xylophone ascending. A puppet shaking an ancient bowl sounds like this." - Dylan Pecora Record out soon via @AmericanDreamsRecords <3 Picture #1: Film still Picture #2: Puppet work-in-progress #AmericanDreamsRecords #PatrickShiroishi #JapaneseAmerican #Hideki #JapaneseAmericanMusician #JapaneseAmericanMusicians #AsianAmericanMusician #AsianAmericanMusicians #FreeJazz #SouthernCaliforniaMusician #SouthernCaliforniaMusicians #DylanPecora #Experimental #LooneyTunes #CarlStalling #Skronking #Puppetry #Sculpture