“Victoria Shen is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker based in San Francisco.
Shen’s sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its relationship to the human body. Her music features analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin records, and self-built electronics. Eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of extreme textures and gestural tones, Shen uses what she calls “chaotic sound” to oppose signal and information, eluding traditionally embedded meaning.”
Victoria’s DIY tools bring up an interesting parrallel with my own practice as a ‘tool maker’ (read that in Keir Starmers voice).
I asked her about the commodification of punk and how noise in itself can avoid commodification. She prevoiusly talked about the situationalist internation and detournment in relation to her work with records.
I saw Victoria play the next day at electric ballroom (supporting Xiu Xiu)