HOWARD OUYANG

Howard Ouyang is a Taiwanese-American music producer, composer, mixer, and audiovisual artist based in New York City. He received his BFA with a concentration in Sound and Art & Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2019 and his Master of Music in Music Technology at New York University in 2021. He was the music producer and a member of NYC-based indie rock band Her Dark Heaven and is now part of the web-based experimental industrial/electronic Cyberpunk music collective P.H.0.

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Inspired by his multicultural background, his music draws influences from a wide array of western music - classical, modern, and avant-garde/experimental - as well as traditional East Asian music from Taiwan, Japan, China, Mongolia, etc. As a result, his works have been known to be sonically and aesthetically distinct from those of others working in similar genre(s). The focus of his production has always been defying genre conventions, redefining traditional musical elements in a contemporary context, and developing a unique sonic profile.

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To him, music is not merely entertainment, but an art form that transcends languages and has the power to start meaningful conversations in cultural, social, and political issues among listeners from all sides of the aisle and ultimately transform society for the better democratically. This core value is reflected through his effort in representing the organic and synthetic sounds from East Asian cultures, both the new and the old, in his works, notably in Her Dark Heaven's "Exorcism" and P.H.0's entire discography, whose philosophy is based on making meaningful artistic decisions that fit the context of the music and acknowledge with reverence the history and the culture from which the musical elements in his works originate.

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