Abandoning the Self with Jared Xu

Chapter in Un magazine 19.1 'Resonant Imaginaries and sound clashes', edited by Lucreccia Quintanilla.<br/><br/>First paragraph:<br/>I first became acquainted with Jared Xu’s work when I was in Taipei in 2023. At the time, I was learning about the early history of Taiwanese noise music that began to garner a small but loyal following in the years after the country’s thirty-eight year martial law was lifted in 1987. The first wave of Taiwanese noise came to fruition through Fujui Wang’s pioneering zine, which was appropriately titled NOISE (est. 1993). The second wave was led by the prolific work of Dino (AKA Liao Ming-he, 1976–2022), a Taipei-based no-input-noise underground icon active from the mid-1990s.