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Collaborations, London, UK
2025
EPs, Improvised music
Tigersonic VS.Akira (Ningrui Liu) : Music making using I Ching, or book of Changes Collaborations.
Sound artists and filmmakers Felix X Tigersonic and Akira (Ningrui Liu) first met through lofi ensemble, an inclusive, improvisation-based workshop. They soon discovered they shared an obsession with generating artistic ideas via chance and randomness.
Felix was already experimenting with composing using cues from Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies and dice. Meanwhile, Akira, fresh from completing Film of Changes at the Royal College of Art, was using the I Ching, or book of changes a traditional Chinese system of cleromancy as both a creative engine and a conceptual framework in contemporary moving image practice.
Their collaboration inevitable in retrospect centres on the I Ching as both compositional framework and philosophical anchor.
Working from Felix’s underground studio in Islington, they tossed coins, interpreted hexagrams, and responded instinctively with sound and image. The resulting works are equal parts composition, chaos, and cosmic joke.. The process itself, messy, playful and intuitive is folded back into the films and tracks, creating a feedback loop between chance and authorship. These Two pieces Feng and Tai emerged from the sessions.
Both began with the toss of coins; Track 2 features drums by Mike Skelton, originally recorded for Film of Changes: How to Play Biangu.