Man’s life of 50 years under heaven is nothing compared to the age of this world. Life’s but a fleeting dream, an illusion―Is there anything that comes to life and exists forever? (Atsumori, after the 13th century)
HUANG Dawang is a self-taught bedroom musician, he began his “music career” in mid-teen, and left many bedroom recordings unreleased. After returning from a five-and-half year stay in Osaka, Japan with experience of sessions and live performances at underground music scenes in Kansai, he has been known as an oddball of outsider music at Taipei’s underground scene, and been invited and commissioned to perform at various events. Among his music projects, “yingfan’s Blackwolf Nagashi” project which combines comedy songs and storytelling is best known as his lifework, the rest include free music, sound collage works, and power electronics, He is also active as performing artist, actor, visual artist, writer, and Japanese-Mandarin translator.