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. It consists of a concert performance that responds to the use of the silent-disco sound technology, where both performers and audiences listen to the work only through headphones. Three musicians LTY, DJ 味王 weiwang, and Yuen Chee Wai perform live, transitioning between improvised electronic music and DJ sets while siloed within luminous scaffolds designed by DuckUnit.

Here, silence is not presented as a void or absence but as a condition that changes how listening operates. It introduces a deliberately introspective mode of listening — one where sound does not assert 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. This choreography is both possessional and processional. No listener can be certain of what another is hearing: shared yet unverified, withheld yet unapologetic. This is the secrecy of the medium—the embargo of silence.