Often in collaboration with artists, musicians, philosophers, architects, lawyers, dancers, painters, readers, machines, and objects, Tim Tsang scripts friendly spaces that encourage critical thinking, contemplation, and radical immanence in the contexts of exhibitions, academic conferences, events, games, and concerts. Often through over-identification and over-exposure toward the social, these spaces activate poetic explorations, re-framings, reflections and expansions of interactive creative processes.
His work has been at Automata (Los Angeles), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Kaaitheater (Brussels), Human Resources (Los Angeles), School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Galerija Reflektor (Užice, Serbia), Jagiellonian University (Krakow, Poland) and Museum of Contemporary Art on the Moon (MOCAM). Tim holds a B.M. in Music from Berklee College of Music, and an M.F.A. in Music and Integrated Media from California Institute of the Arts. He is the Creative Technologist at Automata.
Email: itakemusictooseriously@gmail.com
WORK
2021
MUSIC IS MUSIC (Ongoing Composition Series for Piano)
Eyvind Kang’s Sonic Gnostic (Album Release, Aspen Edities, Belgium)
2 Hour “Silent” Lecture (Cal State University Bakersfield, CA)
Panel Reviewer for RISD Fine Arts Portfolio Review (RISD, Rhode Island)
Encounters with Incomprehension, The Wrong Biennale (Online, Worldwide)
Bitcoin Hero Plays Plato’s Cave (Video Game with Original Film Score, Apple App Store)
Bitcoin is DEAD (Music Composition, Premiered at Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark )
Green Boxes with Friends: A Basic 5 Hour Zoom Call Where Everyone Has the Same Green Background (Live Event featuring infinite games)
Garden Party with Spatial Audio (Live Event, High Fidelity)
Metahuman design for Brian Getnick’s Monument to an Audition (Unreal Engine)
Tim Tsang Tim Tsang, a Metahuman (Human Digital Twin)
a thing is a thing (Experimental Talking)
Bitcoin is DEAD (NFT)
2020
Sound design and Experimental Reading for chance encounters for a third try (The Grey Center, University of Chicago)
Don't touch my strings: Tim Tsang x Noisebringers (Experimental Film and Sound, Premiered at NGallery, Athens, Greece)
What Makes Your Garden Grow? (Live 5 Hour Event, Waltham Mills Open Studios, MA, USA)
5walls with Patrick Michael Ballard (Experimental Talking, Automata, Los Angeles, CA)
5walls with Sebastian Kueffner (Online talking series, Vienna, Austria)
5walls with Anna Pangalou (Online talking series, Athens, Greece)
5walls with MAGE (Online Interview, Automata, Los Angeles, CA)
5walls Guest Artist Lecture (University of Nevada, Reno)
What is 5walls? (Experimental Talking with Live Avatar)
Birthday Party for Time Travelers (8 hour Livestream, “Real life” Birthday with Family and Friends)
{(lives)(streams)}: a gathering (Online with Txgen Meyer, Reza Negarestani, Taylor Adkins, HE VALENCIA…)
The Readers Chorus in Conversation with Sara Roberts, Tuni Chatterji, and Tim Tsang (JOAN, Los Angeles, CA)
Experimental Reading of James P. Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games (Online with Kyle Bellucci Johanson)
Tim Tsang plays Tim Tsang (Piano Recital at Automata, Los Angeles)
2019
(scream)(scream) at Project Scream (Screaming Performance and Workshop at Navel, Los Angeles, CA)
Apollo(11)(11) 5wallsandtableonthemoon: We came in Peace for All (Live 8 Hour Experience, Automata, Los Angeles, CA)
#HYPERTEXTEDIT [The Sick Soul], from WILLIAM JAMES: "Varieties of Religious Experience" (Experimental Psychic Typing)
5walls + InterGalactic HyperText: Tim Tsang Meets Txgen Meyer (Online, 6 Hour gathering)
talk show with Scarlett Kim // Episode One (Automata, Los Angeles, CA)
(speak) (Experimental Psychic Speech)
5walls: a bi-locational event (The Mortuary, Los Angeles + Galerija Reflektor Uzice, Serbia)
talkingtalking ensemble Performance (The Mortuary, Los Angeles, CA)
5walls(interview): Live Re-staging/Reading of a Conference call (the co-incidence festival, Somerville, MA)
2018
Live #HYPERTEXTEDIT of Quantum Unlearning, an all-day Conference (SAIC, Chicago, IL)
(presencia (o ausencia) según conveniencia) with Parch Es (Coaxial, Los Angeles, CA)
(presencia (o ausencia) según conveniencia) with Parch Es (The Mortuary, Los Angeles, CA)
(presencia (o ausencia) según conveniencia) with Parch Es (Roy O. Disney Call, Los Angeles, CA)
(presencia (o ausencia) según conveniencia) with Parch Es (Beta Level, Los Angeles, CA)
(presencia (o ausencia) según conveniencia) with Parch Es (Automata, Los Angeles, CA)
(presencia (o ausencia) según conveniencia) with Parch Es (Navel, Los Angeles, CA)
(presencia (o ausencia) según conveniencia) with Parch Es (Home, Los Angeles, CA)
(presencia (o ausencia) según conveniencia) with Parch Es (Facebook)
Premiere of New Works by Ben Finley (Coaxial, Los Angeles, CA)
(cyborg)(cyborg), as part of The Wrong Biennale (Online Worldwide)
2017
“Perhaps it is high time for a xenoarchitecture to match” (Kaaitheater, Brussels)
Resident Artist, as part of "In Real Life: Studio" + Rhizomatic Lab Arts (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles)
Performance with Eric Fanghanel and Parch Es (UCLA Broad Art Center)
Performance with Readers Chorus (Museum of Jurassic Technology)
(timemachine)(timemachine)2 (Center for Integrated Media, Valencia, CA)
A Performance about Non-Performance (Electric Lodge, Venice, CA)
444 events occurring at the same time (Rec Center, Los Angeles, CA)
( m o n k + p r o p h e t ) with Parch Es (Coaxial, Los Angeles, CA)
2people3rd5thwall [11.11.2017] (Online)
aqua ardens (Rec Center, Los Angeles, CA)
Xenofeminism Workshop (Navel, Los Angeles, CA)
2016
Performance with Eyvind Kang, Jessika Kenney, Bill Frisell, and more (REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA)
hyperwave (2) // accelerationist aesthetics & (non)human time travel (Film Premiere at Jagiellonian University : Krakow, Poland)
Composer for Kyle Bellucci Johanson’s opera before, brother, before (CalArts, Valencia, CA)
(5thwall)(5thwall): A 15 Hour Performance (Bindery Projects)
The Laughing Game (tmtm)
Diego’s Compost Garden Party (Altadena, CA)
TIME MANAGEMENT, with Manuel Lima (Lecture Performance Series, CalArts, Valencia, CA)
Abstract Death Star, as part of SOLID WATER - LIQUID SOUNDS (The Los Angeles Water Table, Los Angeles, CA)
2people3rdspace5thwall, as part of Exit Interview (Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA)
storytime: how to explain joseph beuys to a living baby, 1.0 (Sound Composition, Online)
talkingtalking ensemble as part of Lecture Performance Series (CalArts, Valencia, CA)
Speaking Through Objects: talkingtalking ensemble (CalArts, Valencia, CA)
(timemachine) (timemachine) (Center for Integrated Media)
(slimemachine)(slimemachine) (Roy O. Disney Hall)
)( tacowave )( (i) (Online + Bijou Theatre, Valencia, CA)
( m o n k + p r o p h e t ) VR Performance (Navel, Los Angeles, CA)
Tim Tsang Plays Tim Tsang: A Piano Recital (The Wild Beast, Valencia, CA)
2015
FOR THE SAKE OF EVERYTHING, A Live Ensemble Concert + Q&A (CalArts, Valencia, CA)
#SLOWLYWATCHSOMETHINGFAST, a video/clock/piano/discussion (Center for Integrated Media, Valencia, CA)
Linear/Non-Linear Experiments Regarding “Either/Or/And/But/Too”, Over Time (San Francisco State University, CA)
Feedback Loop of the Long Clock of the Hear and Now [Sonic Performance] (WaveCave Gallery, Valencia, CA)
Feedback Loop of the Long Clock of the Hear and Now [Sonic/Visual Installation] (WaveCave Gallery, Valencia, CA)
event event [rant piece] (Driving Car in Traffic, Los Angeles, CA)
#HYPERTEXTEDIT [Joseph Beuys] #HOWTOEXPLAINPICTURESTOADEADHAREPARTS1AND2 (Online)
"Why 4 33?" Clock Time in the Music/Art-making Process (Winter Class at CalArts, Valencia, CA)
FOR THE SAKE OF EVERYTHING, A Piano Performance (Los Angeles, CA)
FOR THE SAKE OF EVERYTHING, A Mind Map for 4 Months (Los Angeles, CA)
ESSAY FOR [3x3] VOICES, A Composition for (3x3) Voices (CalArts, Valencia, CA)
2014
John's Cage 42.305: "Do not go gentle into that good night" Takes 1, 2, and 3 (0:00, 4:18, 6:05) (Online)
John's Cage 42.23: 13 Minutes for Henri Bergson (Online)
John's Cage 42.2: 4 Minutes 33 Seconds for Henri Bergson (Online)
John's Cage 42.112: (13:00;00 for) #Frequentshifter (Online)
John’s Cage 42.0: 5 Kinds of Time for Alban Berg Sonata, Op.1 (Online)
John's Cage 30.0: Sound, Noise, and Music for Approximately 30 Minutes (Outpost 186, Cambridge, MA)
John's Cage 20.82: 120 Seconds for a Bach Fugue (Online)
John's Cage 20.75: 184.5 Seconds for Freeman Etude (Book 1, Etude 1) (Online)
John's Cage 20.68: 60 Seconds for a Voight-Kampff Test (Online)
John's Cage 20.57: 60 Seconds for Schrödinger's Cat (Online)
John's Cage 20.41: 60 Seconds for a Champion Eater (Online)
John's Cage 20.39: 60 Seconds for a Man Eating a Hamburger (Online)
John's Cage 20.24: 60 Seconds for a Clock (Online)
John's Cage 20.1: 60 Seconds for a 60's TV Commercial (Online)
John's Cage 20.0: 60 Seconds for a Bach Prelude (Online)
John's Cage 15.1515: This is About 15 Minutes - A Discursive Lecture/Performance/Video/Discussion (CalArts, Valencia, CA)
John’s Cage 15.15: This is About 15 minutes: Improvised Talk/Performance/Video (CalArts, Valencia, CA)
John's Cage 15.1: "This is About 15 Minutes;" Improvised Talking, with Subtitles (Online)
John's Cage 11.0: Unlikely Alignments - Glenn Gould Reader Page 14 Follow-up (Online)
John's Cage 10.82: Why 4 33? A Performance/Lecture, as part of ISIM Conference (The New School, New York City, NY)
Why is the Question? (4:33 Smartphone Mix) (Online)
David & Rex Goliath: A Game/Composition (CalArts, Valencia, CA)
Unexpected Expectancies with Jimena Bermejo Black, as part of Tinderbox (Mobius, Cambridge, MA)
Panel Reviewer for RISD Fine Arts Portfolio Review (RISD, Rhode Island)
2013
TIMEFORMS: Why 4 33? A lecture/performance (McGill University, Canada)
John's Cage 10.79: Why 433? 2 Hours for Reader and Pianist (Waltham, MA)
John’s Cage 10.1: Why 433? at SPEED Performance Event (Mobius, Boston, MA)
TIME JERK. Jane Wang, Tim Tsang (toy piano, piano) (Opensound, Somerville, MA)
ISIM Festival: International Society of Improvised Music (Roulette, Brooklyn, NY)
John's Cage 9.0: Kairos/Chronos. Cambridge Open Studios 2013 (CCTV Studios, Cambridge, MA)
MOOGIST @ Weirdo Records (Cambridge, MA)
Expensive Sounds From Another Time (Album)
Bach Fugue XIV for 4 Voices (F# Minor, Well-Tempered Clavier Book I) BWV 859
Ode to Junk (Trail), Even (Shostakovich Symphony No.15 Remix)
I-Park: Interdisciplinary Curatorial Panel (East Haddam, CT)
I-Park: Composer-in-Residence (East Haddam, CT)
MOOGIST @ Warper Party (NYC, NY)
Moog Wobble on Portishead's Mysterons
Flying Lotus - Electric Candyman (feat. György Ligeti)
2012
John’s Cage 2.5: The Bowing Down of // International Society of Improvised Music (William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ)
BEETHOVEN 5th Meets Moog Voyager (Dedicated to Wendy Carlos // Aphex Twin)
FAT MOOG: How to make your Moog Voyager sound FAT, overloaded, unstable, about to lose it...etc
MOOGIST: ERUPTION. Voyager 10dencies (Press from Moog Music and Create Digital Music Blog)
RIHANNA.MF DOOM.MOOGIST DUBSTEP REMIX - Change the Beat: We Found Hope in a Loveless Place
"The Return": Shostakovich Symphony No.5 (Moogist Remix) (I-Park, East Haddam, CT)
Cambridge Open Studios 2012 (CCTV Studios, Cambridge, MA)
I-Park: Composer-in-Residence, Ephemeral Art + Architecture Symposium (East Haddam, CT)
I-Park: Composer-in-Residence, Open Studio Performance (East Haddam, CT)
”Out of Place” (I-Park, East Haddam, CT)
Happy Birthday Bob Moog! (Online)
MOOGIST @ Outpost 186 (Cambridge, MA)
John's Cage 5.0: Tim Tsang @ CCTV Studios (Cambridge, MA)
John's Cage 4.0: Timing Exercise Number 27 (Cambridge, MA)
John's Cage 3.0: "Good Friday." (Cambridge, MA)
"the only way out is to have been out already." (Cambridge, MA)
2011
"Rediscovering Do Re Mi." (Cambridge, MA)
"Why is the Question", (with piano commentary) (Mobius, Cambridge, MA)
John's Cage 2.0: Moogist live @ HARBOR ARTS FEST 2011 (Boston, MA)
Bach Prelude Undergoes Transformation - "Text decontextualized and re-contextualized." (Boston, MA)
John's Cage 1.0: "Sound Over Time." (Cambridge, MA)
MOOGIST @ WARPER PARTY (Brooklyn, NY)
Switch. Moog Composition (Brooklyn, NY)
giraffehorsey; (cory arcangel HYPERFUNK) (Brooklyn, NY)
Piano Painting to Willem de Kooning - "Excavation" (Brooklyn, NY)
MOOGIST @ The Water Shed (Langley, BC, Canada)
Fake Rothko. Moog Composition (Langley, BC, Canada)
Number One Hundred (Langley, BC, Canada)
Business Calls. Moog Composition (Langley, BC, Canada)
Heart Attack. Moog Composition (Langley, BC, Canada)
Five Twenty Six. Moog Composition (Langley, BC, Canada)
MOOGIST vs TIM TSANG: Moog Annihilation-play it by the book MASHUP (Langley, BC, Canada)
Bach Goldberg Variation No.2 (Langley, BC, Canada)
Play it by the Book. (Langley, BC, Canada)
Tree Psychology (Langley, BC, Canada)
NOISE MUSIC, what is (T. Tsang, a.k.a."Moogist"), 310-316 (Langley, BC, Canada)
ADORNO Essays on Music pp. 659-660 (Moogist Commentary) (Langley, BC, Canada)
MOOGIST with The Laudate Singers, Ross Taggart, Campbell Ryga (St. Andrews United Church, North Vancouver, BC, Canada)
2010
MOOGIST: Green Christmas (Langley, BC, Canada)
MOOGIST: Early Destination (Langley, BC, Canada)
Music Video for Smojphace‘s Micrology (Langley, BC, Canada)
Smojphace - Mossy (Moogist Remix) (Langley, BC, Canada)
MOOGIST: Arnold. (Langley, BC, Canada)
MOOGIST: Reality Hunger (Langley, BC, Canada)
MOOGIST: Starvation Glasses (Langley, BC, Canada)
MOOGIST: Speakers and Seekers (Langley, BC, Canada)
MOOGIST: Gorilla Warfare (Langley, BC, Canada)
MOOGIST: Employees Must Wash Their Hands Before Returning to Work. (Langley, BC, Canada)
MOOGIST: Common Thoughts of a Robot (Album)
Karen Lee-Morlang and Tim Tsang: Brahms Hungarian Dance No.1 + Tim Tsang Improvisation (Vancouver Art Gallery, BC, Canada)
MOOGIST: How to Wobble in 15 Seconds (The Moogist Way)
Complicated Handshake with Chip Powered @ The Wonder Bar (Allston, MA)
"Sound Over Time" with Tim Tsang Presented By M. Steinert & Sons (Natick, MA)
2009
BUSINESS FOR PLEASURE @ Middle East Downstairs (Cambridge, MA)
MOOGIST: Scratch Session 1 - "Hyperscratch" (Allston, MA)
MOOGIST: Voyager Talk. (Allston, MA)
MOOGIST: Skream VS Moog Mashup (Allston, MA)
MOOGIST: Scratch From Scratch (Allston, MA)
MOOGIST: Moog Annihilation (Allson, MA)
MOOGIST: Beat Konducta Moog Remix (Allston, MA)
Prelude to a Kiss (Left Handed Version) (Allston, MA)
MOOGIST: How to “Moog Scratch” (Cambridge, MA)
MOOGIST: What Can You Do with 1 Note? (Cambridge, MA)
Complicated Handshake @ The Enormous Room (Cambridge, MA)
MOOGIST: Music is Finished // Glenn Gould Mashup (Allston, MA)
Complicated Handshake: 72 Hours (The Enormous Room, Cambridge, MA)
Complicated Handshake: Faux Pas (Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA)
MOOGIST with Neil Leonard @ GASP Gallery (Brookline, MA)
MOOGIST VS Chip Chop @ GASP Gallery (Brookline, MA)
Zambelli Scholarship Winner Recital (Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA)
MOOGIST: One Day As A Lion - "One Day As A Lion" (Moog Solo at 3:06)
One Day As A Lion - "Wild International" (Moog Solo At 2:46 With Alternate Ending)
2008
MOOGIST: Muscle Dance (Allston, MA)
THE MOOGIST FREAKS THE MINIMOOG (Synthtopia.com)
Elephant Feed Monkey @ GASP Gallery (Brookline, MA)
Elephant Feed Monkey @ Enromous Room (Cambridge, MA)
MOOGIST: Autumn Leaves Cover (Allston, MA)
2007
The Star Spangled Banner Freestyle (Berklee, Boston, MA)
2006
Variations on Paganini Theme (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Danny Boy Piano Freestyle (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
Over the Rainbow Cover (Vancouver, BC, Canada)
2005
Prokofiev Toccata in D, Op.11 (University of British Columbia, Canada)
EDUCATION
2014-2016: California Institute for the Arts - M.F.A. in Music Performance/Composition, Concentration in Integrated Media
2012: Art Students' League - Studies with Mariano Del Rosario
2007-2009: Berklee College of Music - B.M. with Magna Cum Laude in Music
2005-2006: University of British Columbia - Piano Performance with Henri-Paul Sicsic
2003-2005: Capilano University - Piano Performance Diploma with David Vandereyk
2002: ARCT Piano Performer's Diploma with Edward Parker
AWARDS
2009: Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music
2007-2009: Graduated with Magna Cum Laude
2009: Zambeli Scholarship Solo Recital (Bach/Mozart/Liszt/Prokofiev)
2009: Berkleeʼs Zambeli Scholarship Competition for Piano Performance
2007-2009: Entrance Berklee Scholarship Award
2008: Interviewed on Berklee Radio (BIRN)
2005: Entrance Scholarship to UBC School of Music
2005: Kawaii Piano Award from Capilano University
2005: Music Diploma from Capilano University
2005: Capilano University Scholarship Performance Competition Winner
2004: Capilano University Scholarship Performance Competition Winner
2003: Entrance Scholarship to Capilano University School of Music
2002: Royal Conservatory of Music ARCT Performer's Diploma
RECORDINGS
Eyvind Kang’s Sonic Gnostic
Why 4' 33"?
Either/Or
Frequent Shifter
Expensive Sounds From Another Time
Why is the Question
Common Thoughts of a Robot