Beam Splitter X Alex Zhang Hungtai

Zhang is a multi-disciplinary artist focused on improvisation and its correlation with the unconscious. After retiring his project Dirty Beaches, Zhang has been focusing on explorations of improvised music, free jazz, and his role as a composer. His newer compositions predominantly work with saxophone and drums, delving into electronic music. Besides his solo work, some past collaborators include : Tashi Dorji, Che Chen, Chris Williams, Sam Shalabi, David Maranha, and Gabriel Ferrandini. Zhang currently works as a composer for film soundtracks, along with acting in independent films. He has appeared in David Lynch’s Twin Peaks: The Return alongside Dean Hurley and Riley Lynch under the fictitious band Trouble. His latest film score “Godland” by Hlynur Pálmason was in competition at Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard. He currently lives in New York City.
https://alexzhanghungtai.bandcamp.com/

BEAM SPLITTER is a duo for amplified voice, trombone and analog electronics based in Berlin, Germany.
Through numerous performances in a wide range of spaces, contexts and collaborations, they have developed a unique brand of highly amplified dialog, which is as intimate as it is equal amounts raw and entirely exposed. The duo have toured extensively across five continents since 2015, joining together their two individual voices into a distinct language that delves beyond the borders of the corporeal elements of un-processed voice and trombone, while utilizing analog electronics to offset their hyper extended physical play.