Lim Giong
Encyclopedia
Lim Giong is a musician
, artist
, DJ, composer
, songwriter
, music producer, music director
and also an actor
.
Now, he is a leading figure on the Taiwanese experimental electronic music
scene.
His musical career began with the release of his 1st album, "Marching Forward" in 1990.
In his early days, he gave rousing performances of folk-pop music in Taiwan (mainly sung in Taiwanese Hokkien) such as "A Soundless Place" from the Dust of Angels soundtrack
. He was associated with the genre known as New Taiwanese Song
. Then, from his 3rd album "Entertainment World" recorded in England in 1993, his compositions become increasingly infused with electronic music
, evolving even from drum and bass, break beat
, ambient
and electronica
, to more experimental
and freestyle
work.
He introduces Taiwanese notes into pop-rock culture, and weaves complex musical fabrics.
In his works, the tradition meets the modernity, which creates the world of his own.
He arranges the traditional music with the electronic flavour quite successfully in his 4th album "China Fun" in 2002, and 5th album "Folk Paradise" in 2003.
And since he studied acting and appeared in some movies as an actor, stimulated by the world of cinema, he became the favorite composer of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
, for whom he wrote the music of Goodbye South, Goodbye
and Millennium Mambo
.
From the experience in the world of cinema, he has his original perspective in the interaction of the sound and the image. He tried to exceed the genre of music in his work, which is developed in the form "Stereo Picture(立體音畫, sometimes translated as "Three Dimensional Sound Picture")" that aims at uniting the sound and the image.
His latest album “Insects Awaken" was released in 2005 in Europe on a French label, MK2., and a few months later, also released in Taiwan on a Taiwanese label, EWise Digital Multimedia Corp. This album won the best crossover album of the 17th Golden Melody Awards in 2006.
In 2005, the Cannes Film Festival
invited him to perform at an outdoor event. There he performed music from "Insects Awaken", with the images which include the elements of the National Palace Museum
's collection.
He also produces the music for the special 90 seconds commercial film of National Palace Museum that celebrates its 80th anniversary in October, 2005. The concept of this film, "OLD IS NEW" coincides with his detached stance. And this special commercial film won the gold of the American Association of Museums
' 2006 Muse award.
And now he is participating in the activity of the Creative Commons
in Taiwan, and undertakes the responsibility of the CC Party.
directed by Hsu Hsiao Ming (徐小明), and Hou Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢) is credited as an executive producer
directed by Chen Kuo-Fu (陳國富), and Hou Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢) is credited as an executive producer
directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢)
directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢)
directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢)
directed by Lin Cheng-Sheng
(林正盛)
directed by Dai Tailung(戴泰龍).Lian Jinhua(連錦華)
Composer
Narrator
American Association of Museums' Muse awards
The Golden Melody Awards(金曲獎)
Narrative Features, Best Music LIM Giong YANG YANG directed by Cheng Yu-chieh(鄭有傑)
第十三屆 上海國際電影節 最佳音樂 林強 《碧羅雪山》（中國） directed by LIU JIE 劉杰)
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
, artist
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, DJ, composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, songwriter
Songwriter
A songwriter is an individual who writes both the lyrics and music to a song. Someone who solely writes lyrics may be called a lyricist, and someone who only writes music may be called a composer...
, music producer, music director
Music director
A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...
and also an actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
.
Now, he is a leading figure on the Taiwanese experimental electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
scene.
His musical career began with the release of his 1st album, "Marching Forward" in 1990.
In his early days, he gave rousing performances of folk-pop music in Taiwan (mainly sung in Taiwanese Hokkien) such as "A Soundless Place" from the Dust of Angels soundtrack
Dust of Angels (soundtrack)
Dust of Angels is the soundtrack to the Taiwanese motion picture of the same name directed by Hsu Hsiao-ming . It features ten Taiwanese-language and instrumental rock and ambient music songs by performers considered to be alternative or avant-garde in the Taiwanese music scene at the time...
. He was associated with the genre known as New Taiwanese Song
New Taiwanese Song
New Taiwanese Song is a genre of Taiwanese popular music. It was first used to describe pop songs, often dealing with political themes or social criticism, that followed the upheavals of 1989. Songs of Madness by Blacklist Studio was one of the first and most prominent releases in this genre. Lin...
. Then, from his 3rd album "Entertainment World" recorded in England in 1993, his compositions become increasingly infused with electronic music
Electronic music
Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...
, evolving even from drum and bass, break beat
Break beat
Break beat may refer to:*the genre breakbeat*the technique break beat...
, ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
and electronica
Electronica
Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; however, unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing...
, to more experimental
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
and freestyle
Freestyle music
Freestyle or Latin freestyle, sometimes referred to as Latin hip hop, is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1980s. Mostly popular during the mid 80s to the early 90s...
work.
He introduces Taiwanese notes into pop-rock culture, and weaves complex musical fabrics.
In his works, the tradition meets the modernity, which creates the world of his own.
He arranges the traditional music with the electronic flavour quite successfully in his 4th album "China Fun" in 2002, and 5th album "Folk Paradise" in 2003.
And since he studied acting and appeared in some movies as an actor, stimulated by the world of cinema, he became the favorite composer of Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...
, for whom he wrote the music of Goodbye South, Goodbye
Goodbye South, Goodbye
-Plot:Gao is riding the train to Pinghsi to set up a 10 day gambling den with his friend Hsi . He taking his acolyte - Flatty , and Pletzel , Flatty's girl friend, who works part time in a night club....
and Millennium Mambo
Millennium Mambo
Millennium Mambo directed by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien, is a 2001 film.-Synopsis:The main character, Vicky, portrayed by actress Shu Qi narrates from 2011 about her life 10 years earlier. She describes her youth and story of her changing life at the beginning of the new Millennium. She...
.
From the experience in the world of cinema, he has his original perspective in the interaction of the sound and the image. He tried to exceed the genre of music in his work, which is developed in the form "Stereo Picture(立體音畫, sometimes translated as "Three Dimensional Sound Picture")" that aims at uniting the sound and the image.
His latest album “Insects Awaken" was released in 2005 in Europe on a French label, MK2., and a few months later, also released in Taiwan on a Taiwanese label, EWise Digital Multimedia Corp. This album won the best crossover album of the 17th Golden Melody Awards in 2006.
In 2005, the Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
invited him to perform at an outdoor event. There he performed music from "Insects Awaken", with the images which include the elements of the National Palace Museum
National Palace Museum
The National Palace Museum is an art museum in Taipei. It is the national museum of the Republic of China, and has a permanent collection of over 677,687 pieces of ancient Chinese artifacts and artworks, making it one of the largest in the world. The collection encompasses over 8,000 years of...
's collection.
He also produces the music for the special 90 seconds commercial film of National Palace Museum that celebrates its 80th anniversary in October, 2005. The concept of this film, "OLD IS NEW" coincides with his detached stance. And this special commercial film won the gold of the American Association of Museums
American Association of Museums
The American Association of Museums is a non-profit association that has brought museums together since its founding in 1906, helping develop standards and best practices, gathering and sharing knowledge, and advocating on issues of concern to the museum community...
' 2006 Muse award.
And now he is participating in the activity of the Creative Commons
Creative Commons
Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share. The organization has released several copyright-licenses known as Creative Commons...
in Taiwan, and undertakes the responsibility of the CC Party.
Discography
- Marching Forward:向前走 (1990)
- Spring Breeze Young Bro.:春風少年兄 (1992)
- Entertainment World:娛樂世界 (1993)
- Goodbye South, Goodbye (Orig. Movie Soundtrack):南國再見,南國 (1996)
- The Best of Linchung:向前走林強 (2001)
- China Fun:歡樂電子中國年 (2002)China Fun
- Folk Paradise:電民謠(2003)Folk Paradise
- Insects Awaken (2005)
- Jia Zhang-Ke Movie Music Collection - Music by Lim Giong 賈樟柯電影音樂作品集(2007)
Filmography
Actor- Dust of AngelsDust of AngelsDust of Angels can refer to:*Dust of Angels , a 1992 Taiwanese motion picture*Dust of Angels , the soundtrack album of the same motion picture...
: 少年吔，安啦！(1992)
directed by Hsu Hsiao Ming (徐小明), and Hou Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢) is credited as an executive producer
Executive producer
An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...
- Treasure Island: 只要為你活一天 (1992)
directed by Chen Kuo-Fu (陳國富), and Hou Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢) is credited as an executive producer
Executive producer
An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...
- The Puppetmaster: 戲夢人生 (1993)
directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢)
- Good Men, Good WomenGood Men, Good WomenGood Men, Good Women is a 1995 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien, starring Annie Shizuka Inoh, Lim Giong and Jack Kao. It is the last installment in the trilogy that began with A City of Sadness and continued with The Puppetmaster...
: 好男好女 (1995)
directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢)
- Goodbye South, GoodbyeGoodbye South, Goodbye-Plot:Gao is riding the train to Pinghsi to set up a 10 day gambling den with his friend Hsi . He taking his acolyte - Flatty , and Pletzel , Flatty's girl friend, who works part time in a night club....
: 南國再見,南國 (1996)
directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien(侯孝賢)
- March of HappinessMarch of HappinessMarch of Happiness is a 1999 Taiwanese film directed by Lin Cheng-sheng. It tells the story of a teenage romance set against the backdrop of the Japanese occupation and the 228 Incident...
: 天馬茶房 (1998)
directed by Lin Cheng-Sheng
Lin Cheng-sheng
Lin Cheng-sheng is a Taiwanese film director.- Director :*A Drifting Life *Murmur of Youth *Sweet Degeneration *March of Happiness *Betelnut Beauty *Robinson's Crusoe...
(林正盛)
- So-Called Friend: 哥兒們 (2000)
directed by Dai Tailung(戴泰龍).Lian Jinhua(連錦華)
Composer
- Goodbye South, Goodbye: 南國再見,南國 (1996) directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien (侯孝賢)
- Millennium Mambo: 千禧曼波 (2001) directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien (侯孝賢)
- Two Summers: 兩個夏天(2002) directed by Leon Dai Liren (戴立忍)
- The WorldThe World (film)The World is a 2004 Chinese film written and directed by Jia Zhangke. Starring Jia's muse, Zhao Tao, as well as Chen Taisheng, The World was filmed on and around an actual theme park located in Beijing, Beijing World Park, which recreates world landmarks at reduced scales for Chinese tourists. The...
:世界 (2004) directed by Jia ZhangkeJia ZhangkeJia Zhangke is a Chinese film director. He is generally regarded as a leading figure of the "Sixth Generation" movement of Chinese cinema, a group that also includes such figures as Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan....
(賈樟柯) - Reflections: 愛麗絲的鏡子 (2005) directed by Yao Hung-I (姚宏易)
- Quiet Summer: 寧静夏日 (2005) directed by Shuhei Fujita (藤田修平)
- Three TimesThree TimesThree Times is a 2005 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. It features three chronologically separate stories of love between May and Chen, set in 1911, 1966 and 2005, using the same lead actors, Shu Qi and Chang Chen.The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2005 Cannes Film...
: 最好的時光 (2005) directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien (侯孝賢) - Do Over: 一年之初 (2006) directed by Cheng Yu-chieh (鄭有傑)
- Joyful Life: 樂生 (2007) a documentary directed by Anita Wen-Shin Chang (張文馨)
- Still Life:三峡好人 (2006) directed by Jia Zhangke (賈樟柯)
- DongDong (film)Dong is a 2006 documentary film by Chinese director, Jia Zhangke. It is the companion piece to Jia's Still Life, which was released concurrently although Dong was reputedly conceived of first...
: 東 (2006) directed by Jia Zhangke (賈樟柯) - Our Ten Years: 我們的十年 (2007) directed by Jia Zhangke (賈樟柯)
- Useless: 無用 (2007) directed by Jia Zhangke (賈樟柯)
- 24 City24 City24 City is a 2008 film directed and co-written by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke. The film follows three generations of characters in Chengdu as a state-owned factory gives way to a modern apartment complex...
: 二十四城记 (2008) directed by Jia Zhangke (賈樟柯) - City Of Trance 迷樂上海 (2008) directed by David VERBEEK(荷蘭導演)
- Tree of us 我們三個 (2008) directed by Yao Hung-I (姚宏易)
- Yang Yang 陽陽(2009) directed by Cheng Yu-chieh (鄭有傑)
- R U THERE(2010) directed by David Verbeek (荷蘭導演)
- DEEP IN THE CLOUDS(2010) 《碧羅雪山》（中國） directed by LIU JIE(劉杰)
Narrator
- Emerald Horizon (documentary film:2006) directed by Liang Yin Kuo(郭亮吟), Shuhei Fujita(藤田修平)
- BIRD WITHOUT BORDERS(BLACK FACED SPOONBILLS) 返家八千里(黑面琵鷺) (documentary film:2009) directed by Dean Johnson
Award Wins
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (金馬獎)- Best Original Film Song 1996: Goodbye South, GoodbyeGoodbye South, Goodbye-Plot:Gao is riding the train to Pinghsi to set up a 10 day gambling den with his friend Hsi . He taking his acolyte - Flatty , and Pletzel , Flatty's girl friend, who works part time in a night club....
- Best Original Film Score 2001: Millennium MamboMillennium MamboMillennium Mambo directed by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien, is a 2001 film.-Synopsis:The main character, Vicky, portrayed by actress Shu Qi narrates from 2011 about her life 10 years earlier. She describes her youth and story of her changing life at the beginning of the new Millennium. She...
- Best Original Film Score 2006: Do Over(film)
American Association of Museums' Muse awards
- The Gold Winner of the Promotional and Marketing 2006: "Old is New" (NPM Image Advertisement)
The Golden Melody Awards(金曲獎)
- Best Crossover Album 2006: "Insects Awaken(驚蟄)"
- Taipei Film Festival 11th 2009年 第十一屆 台北電影節 劇情長片最佳音樂《陽陽》林強
Narrative Features, Best Music LIM Giong YANG YANG directed by Cheng Yu-chieh(鄭有傑)
- 13TH Shanghai International Film Festival 2010 Award for Best Music LIM Giong for DEEP IN THE CLOUDS (China)
第十三屆 上海國際電影節 最佳音樂 林強 《碧羅雪山》（中國） directed by LIU JIE 劉杰)
External links
- ACIDplanet: "lim going"(a.k.a. Lim Giong)
- MK2
- THE MOVIE MIX NIGHT CANNES 2005 (French)
- National Palace Museum - Movie Downloads (Traditional Han)
- AAM's 2006 Muse award
- Creative Commons (Traditional Han)
- Lim Giong@The New York Times
- Lim Giong@Taiwan Cinema(Traditional Han)
- Taiwan Beat of Midem in Cannes,France 2007
- http://tw.streetvoice.com/profile/home.asp?sd=12060 lim giong recent music work