Biography (Bandcamp | Patron)
Simply put, Goh Lee Kwang has spent nearly 20 years making music that defies description. His works covered a wide variety of avant-garde, electronic and field recording.
Goh has been touring / performing internationally at festival of contemporary art and music of cities in Asia and Europe such as Auckland, Wellington, Sydney, Canberra, Shanghai, Taipei, Kaohsiung, Manila, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Singapore, Bangkok, New Delhi, Dublin, London, Stockholm, Madrid, Barcelona, Ljubljana, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Budapest, Berlin, Hamburg, Zürich, Geneva, and Paris.
His first one-person exhibition 'Sound, Video, Visual, Media and Installation' shown in 2 venues: National Art Gallery (then rename to National Visual Art Gallery) and R.A.P. (Rumah Air Panas) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2005; his second one-person exhibition 'Good Vibrations' shown in 3 venues, REKA Art Space, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 2007; Fluctuating Images, Stuttgart and Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, Worpswede, Germany 2008. In 2009 his third one person exhibition 'Wiring' including a 30 mins video, a live performance, 2 short video pieces (looped), some drawings and a sound piece (WAVER), were taken place at Findars Space and Klpac (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center), both in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 2012 again he has a one-person exhibition at Findars Art Space, with 3 sound pieces, 1 single channel video, drawings on the wall, and a interactive opening performance with the audiences.
Goh is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, Stuttgart, Germany in 2004 -2005, Klangraum Fellowship, Krems, Austria in 2006 and Künstlerhäuser Worpswede Fellowship 2008. Other short term Artist-In-Residency programs including KHOJ, New Delhi, India 2006; STEIM, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2007 and 2010; WORM, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 2007, and Green Papaya, Manila, Philippines 2007.
Goh is the founder of Switch ON, a platform for electronic arts in kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Goh is also the founder of Herbal Records, a music CD publishing label, Herbal released recordings by Eric Cordier, Eric La Casa, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Cédric Peyronnet, Beequeen, Roel Meelkop, Sabine Ercklentz, Andrea Neumann, Jason Kahn, Zbigniew Karkowski and many others.
Goh is currently live and work in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
