Simply put, Goh Lee Kwang has spent nearly 20 years making music that defies description. His works have covered a wide variety of avant-garde, electronic and field recording.
Goh has been touring / performing internationally at festivals of contemporary art and music in Asian and European cities 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’, was 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’, was 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’, included a 30-minute video, a live performance, 2 short video pieces (looped), some drawings and a sound piece (WAVER). The exhibit took place at Findars Space and KLPAC (Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Center), both in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2012, he had another one-person exhibition at Findars Art Space, featuring 3 sound pieces, 1 single-channel video, drawings on the wall, and an 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 include 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, 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 currently lives and works in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
