LTY

Lai Tsung-Yun (LTY) is a Taiwanese sound and media artist, curator, and director of Lacking Sound Festival, Taiwan’s leading platform for experimental sound and noise art. His work explores vibration as a physical and cultural force, investigating perception, space, and new modes of listening through modular synthesis, generative composition, real-time sampling, and signal feedback.

Lai has performed and undertaken artist residencies across Europe and Asia, including Cité internationale des arts (Paris), Baltic Analog Lab (Riga), Elektronmusikstudion (EMS, Stockholm), and Hangar.org (Barcelona). He was recently invited to perform at the opening of Skaņu Mežs, the Baltic region’s foremost experimental music festival.

Through his artistic and curatorial practice, Lai connects Taiwan’s experimental sound community with international networks, fostering collaboration, supporting emerging artists, and exploring new sonic possibilities.

Performance: The Embargo of Silence

The Embargo of Silence is conceived and curated by Yuen Chee Wai. A concert built on a silent-disco sound system, it is heard only through headphones, by performers and audience alike. DJ 味王 weiwang, Lai Tsung-Yun (LTY) and Yuen Chee Wai play live, moving between improvised electronic music and DJ sets, while siloed within luminous scaffolds designed by DuckUnit.

It introduces a deliberately introspective mode of listening — one where sound does not announce itself into space but waits to be encountered. Rather than resonating publicly, the music trespasses directly into the listener’s inner terrain, allowing interpretation and response to unfold privately rather than collectively. The work shifts music from something that occupies the room to something that occupies the body. Every listener becomes a singular room. 

The choreography is both possessional and processional. No one can be sure what anyone else is hearing: shared yet unverified, withheld yet unapologetic. This is the secrecy of the medium, the embargo of silence.