#taiwanese radio stations

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 Certainly, here's an article about radio stations in Taiwan:

Taiwan is a small island nation that is packed with culture, history, and natural beauty. From bustling cities to serene mountain retreats, there is something for everyone in Taiwan. One of the best ways to experience Taiwan is through its diverse radio stations, which offer a range of programming that reflects the country's unique mix of traditional and modern influences.

Radio has been a popular medium in Taiwan for decades, and there are now more than 70 licensed stations broadcasting across the country. These stations offer a range of programming, including news, music, talk shows, and more. Many stations are regionally focused, broadcasting content that is specific to their local area, while others have a national reach.

One of the most popular radio stations in Taiwan is ICRT (International Community Radio Taipei), which broadcasts in English and has been serving the international community in Taiwan for over 30 years. ICRT features a mix of music, news, and talk shows, and is a great resource for expats and travelers who want to stay connected to the world.

Another popular station is Hit FM, which focuses on pop music and is known for its high-energy DJs and fun contests. Hit FM has a nationwide reach and is particularly popular among younger listeners.

For those interested in news and current affairs, there are several options, including the government-owned Central News Agency Radio and the privately-owned Liberty Times Net Radio. These stations offer in-depth coverage of local and international news, as well as analysis and commentary on the issues of the day.

Other popular stations include Kiss Radio, which features a mix of pop and rock music, and UFO Network, which is known for its alternative programming and eclectic music selection.

In addition to traditional radio stations, Taiwan also has a growing number of online radio stations that offer streaming content over the internet. These stations include Indie Vox Radio, which focuses on independent music, and ICRT's online-only sister station, ICRT EZ News, which offers 24/7 news coverage in English.

Overall, Taiwan's radio scene is diverse and vibrant, with something for every listener. Whether you're interested in music, news, or talk shows, you're sure to find a station that meets your needs. So tune in, and discover the rich and varied world of Taiwanese radio!

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[princessnijireiki]

Been thinking a lot about how something as simple as codeswitching & vocal training or accent work unsettles people deeply in all kinds of ways...

Like they will get really weirdly angry if a person's accent shifts around, and they want to know which one is the "real" one; and then will also get mad if they can't consume other people's voices as lesser entertainment, like when Constance Wu declined to perform the Taiwanese accent she developed for Fresh Off the Boat on demand, saying, "it's not a party trick."

They get mad if you class pass & then slip. They get mad if they feel entitled to all aspects & voices of you. They demand a "real voice" from gay people, transgender people, they say, almost disappointed and affronted, "wow, your English is so good," to those they have internally classified as the eternal foreigner, they condescendingly remark, "oh, you speak so well, you're so... articulate," to those they have deemed their racial, social, economic, intellectual lessers.

And they don't ever examine that anger. I can modulate my voice into a distinctly pronounced Standard American English accent, like I was taught as a child, with some effort; when I drop the mask, when I am agitated or excitable, the Bronx leaps to the front of my mouth, secondhand from my loud father, an accent I very much associate with that kind of loudness, explosiveness, the voice of anger; when I'm tired, I sound more Southern, more like my other family members, and when I am truly tired and drained, it's a 50/50 on if you get a truly unmodulated low and quiet speaking voice, or a canned customer service voice response on autopilot, a full octave higher in pitch. All of those are real, all of those are true, none of them are "put on." Some are masks. All are social performance.

That's truly where the anger lies. The defiance of imposition of the social role. The refusal to play an assigned part. The fact that people exist who know how to do the "party trick," but it's never for your entertainment, and often exists beyond others' capacity to see the fact that flipping through the radio stations has always been an option, and the acts of both tuning and refusing to tune to another channel, as an internal choice, enrages them. But so, too, does the idea that what occurs around us grows and changes and grows and changes us. For the voices we can't change, but who refuse to align with outside classification or judgement, they hate that, too— and they hate the voices that also change unbidden, that mold into a new authenticity, which refuse to be labeled false for changing.

They find it appalling, actually, that those of us who color outside the lines even know the lines (which they can't or won't see themselves) are there to begin with.

And really, what it speaks to is their own paranoia; their own devastating fear that the world isn't following their rules, and in fact, isn't even playing their little game, and never was— and that without those rules, and roles, they don't know where they stand. They don't know if their role can also be changed, if they are no longer in control, terrified of being perceived as anything but at the helm via voice & language. And without that, without the passively accepted externally imposed labels, structures, systems of classifying themselves and others, they don't even know who they are. They are angry because they truly are afraid, and react to their fear like animals afraid of the dark.

[bizarrequazar]

03-31 (CST) ZSJ Songs, Golden Shield, and Hewitt Space Notes

This was a space held to go over recent events, ie. the song releases, the incident with Golden Shield, Hewitt, and some recent minor attacks on Gong Jun. [Recording]

Quick Plug: Harry is organizing a video of well wishes for Zhang Zhehan for his birthday, please consider joining in! [info]

Song Releases

Three of the songs that have been released were known about by October 2021 and were likely written for the concert Zhang Zhehan was planning before 813. The other three are believed to be from the Zhang Sanjian period, in which case they are likely made using deepfake tech. 

This month the YoYoRock YouTube channel was made to take down Zhang Zhehan’s old songs that had been released from Xinxi.

Radio stations that played the ZSJ songs introduced Zhang Zhehan generally as someone who had been blacklisted in China and is trying to make a comeback. Some of the stations have also been posting about the songs on their websites.

No interview has been played by any of the radio stations, anything you see of people referring to one is only short old soundbites.

Since the point where iTunes shut them down for artificially manipulating engagement, the ZSJ team seems to have given up on that aim and are now focusing on YouTube and KK Box (Taiwanese streaming service). 

For one week on KK Box they put the distributer as someone else, which was tracked to a friend of Xie Yihua’s who has ties to CAPA. The address of this distributor was found and is actually the friend’s residential address on the outskirts of Taipei.

Videos of Surround on YouTube were attributed to a UK company named Kitahara for a long time. In February this was removed. QuelleVous looked into it and found that the song had been relinquished by Kitahara after YouTube(? sorry I think I missed something here) discovered that they were not the rights holders.

Whalers have been saying the new songs are released by Shanghai Ranyi music, supposedly associated with Zhang Mama. One of the social media accounts for this used to belong to Xie Yihua, and YoYoRock is the distributor still getting claims for the songs on YouTube.

Fan uploads of Zhang Zhehan’s old songs are still up on YouTube, YoYoRock specifically has been barred from posting them. Whoever is the owner of the songs claimed them back and removed YoYoRock’s rights; it’s likely this was Zhang Zhehan or someone closely related to him, since there is no logical monetary incentive for Xinxi to request their removal.

One of the radio stations was Fairchild, located in Canada. A voice clip passed around social media had the Fairchild logo. A fan later clairifed was an edit she had made with voice clips from 2020. [thread about this]

Blue contacted Fairchild’s promotions director about the voice clip. They said there had been a misunderstanding, they never included the clip in their promotions; their own promotions were a news article and a spoken blurb by a radio host, not Zhang Zhehan. 

Blue was also told that this blurb was provided by Global Hits, an associate of Chinese radio stations that heads Hits FM, which has also been promoting the songs, as well as other stations that have been promoting them.

The promotions director had no knowledge about the Zhang Zhehan voice clip, was very shocked, and said she was going to pass it on to Global Hits and another station that had played the songs. 

Fairchild said that they never spoke with Zhang Zhehan or his team, only the radio association.

It’s been found that at least some of the overseas billboards have not been up for as long as was claimed.

Golden Shield and Li Xuezheng

A reminder that all Golden Shield social media accounts were for Qingdao Golden Shield. Many Golden Shields exist that have no connections to each other. Peng Lihu is a shareholder in Qingdao Golden Shield. (Previous info about this: [1] [2])

Qingdao Golden Shield was contracted for the marketing for Roving Inspection Team; Li Xuezheng used to work for Golden Shield Television.

The Cloud Institute account appeared last year after Li Xuezheng was muted, registered to Peng Lihu’s company and definitely run by Peng Lihu.

Cloud Institute posted a spiel claiming to be exposing an official in the government’s propaganda department, supposedly from Li Xuezheng.

The Golden Shield Television website posted the same notice shortly after. It was previously believed this website was legitimately related to Li Xuezheng and it possibly used to belong to Golden Shield Publishing. 

The IP address for the site at the point when this notice was posted was located in Hong Kong and owned by a Tencent subsidiary in Singapore, it makes no sense for that to be the case for a site still being run by Golden Shield Publishing since they are domestically oriented.

Hong Kong IP addresses target foreign audiences more than mainland Chinese, as being hosted outside of mainland China makes it take longer to load. Chinese fans who tried to load the website had to wait a really long time due to this. 

The website was also unsecured.

When Li Xuezheng was muted in January 2021, this website posted a notice from him. At that time, no one reported the site as being unusually slow (as far as anyone in the space could remember, at least).

The person who signed up for the website’s hosting site is not part of Golden Shield Publishing, but another Golden Shield.

On the same day of the notice, shortly after, Li Xuezheng’s Baidu page was removed. It’s believed Li Xuezheng removed it himself to avoid malicious edits being made to it. The Roving Inspection Team Baidu was edited to remove Li Xuezheng’s name, with this being done by the same editor who had edited Xie Yihua’s page during 813.

Li Xuezheng and the official’s Chinese Wikipedia pages were edited to include the incident. An editor from Hong Kong who was not registered as a Wikipedia editor initially added very basic facts, then very shortly after a high level editor came in to edit it properly and included Epoch Times as a source (along with several other uncredible “sources”.)

These tactics are aimed at overseas audiences, and are seemingly trying to turn it into an international anti-China incident.

Keep in mind that CAPA hires journalists and have shown that they are very good at manufacturing narratives using news media.

Since the day after the incident, Golden Shield Publishing has released legal notices. The first was that Golden Shield Television had been dissolved and they would sue anyone attempting to speak as them. Peng Lihu quickly changed the Weibo accounts to include Qingdao, removed the Golden Shield trademark from their pfps, and the website was taken down.

Peng Lihu was muted by the CAC for six months across platforms.

Peng Lihu’s boss recently bought a mansion despite the fact that she was in a financial dispute until early this year.

Most if not all of the social media claiming to be Golden Shield are not and have not been legitimately associated with them.

Fake screenshots of Li Xuezheng’s WeChat friend circle posts have been passed around by whalers. The person who initially posted these participated in the slander during 813 on the same account and has still not taken those posts down.

There was recently a notice put up by an industry association saying they were kicking Li Xuezheng out. This is on the same authority level as CAPA (aka none.) Articles about Li Xuezheng on government websites have not been affected in any way.

It seems like this was possibly an attempt at something like 813, indicating that something is likely happening in the background. The “Righteous Passerby” accounts are also trying to encourage some of the fan behaviours associated with 813 and 1123. Tags have been made and quickly nuked, and it’s likely they attempted to buy hotsearches but were thankfully stopped by someone.

Hewitt

QuelleVous found an account through other people in the scam gang full of foot pics trying to claim to be Zhang Zhehan.

Another account, Hewitt, was also posting many of the same photos at the same time.

The account claiming to be Zhang Zhehan was using a pfp photo of the fake dad from the fake girlfriend slander—Hewitt and fake dad are not the same person.

The feet pics match up with the feet photo posted by the Instagram from the driving range (aka Hewitt is the Zhang Sanjian body double Sophie banged in the changeroom.)

A number of his photos were taken in the same pre-furnished apartment complex Zhang Zhehan used to rent from, with this room used for some of the fake Lufei photos. Items on the coffee table were the same in photos between accounts.

Hewitt was very quick to deregister his accounts after QuelleVous revealed him.

He travels between Shanghai and Shenzhen fairly often.

His surname is Chen, it’s not known if he’s related to the other Chens.

He has other social media accounts that have not been revealed yet, if he behaves himself they will not be.

Gong Jun and the Elie Saab suit

The Vogue vlog not only happening but also being edited and posted within the same day shows that they really like him.

After Gong Jun attended Weibo Night, there were anti attacks on brand posts of his Elie Saab suit.

Elie Saab recently started making men’s haute couture and Gong Jun possibly the first man to wear a custom piece by them. Some people have been trying to question whether it’s actually haute couture (fashion expert QuelleVous assures that it is.)

Some people were trying to claim it was not fully custom made but was remade from a women’s outfit, which doesn’t really make sense given he’s definitely bigger than most women.

The suit was the highest designation of Elie Saab’s custom clothing, which would have taken three fittings and was made by people from their Parisian atelier.

QuelleVous suspects the fighting is possibly orchestrated by Weibo to increase engagement. She advises not to engage with it, brands don’t like it.

You have to be invited to wear haute couture, you can’t just go and request it.

[austin-in-taiwan]

August 2 - Kaohsiung - Science/Tech museum, Din Tai Fung, Hakka Museum, TSG Hawks Baseball Game

Today, our first stop was the Kaohsiung National Science and Technology Museum. Like the Science Education Museum I visited for my independent excursion in Taipei, this museum was more tailored to children. However, there were still plenty of fascinating exhibits for anyone, young or old. First, a group of us went to the space exploration exhibit. There were excellent interactive exhibits, models from TASA and Taiwan, and even models of Rockets from the USA. Next, I got to experience the earthquake simulator. I got into a room for 30 NTD, was taught what to do in case of an earthquake (Drop, Cover, Hold), and shook around to simulate an earthquake. Finally, I spent the rest of my time in the telecommunications exhibit. Although I didn't get to finish walking through the timeline, I learned all about the advancement of telecommunication in Taiwan, from when they didn't have a single phone, up to the installation of 5G networks.

After the museum, we got treated to Din Tai Fung! If you don't know what Din Tai Fung is, it's a restaurant that started in Taipei, specializes in Xiao Long Bao, and now has restaurants worldwide. I had gotten it once when we were in Taipei, but this time, it was free, and we got to sample several more dishes I had the first time. Of course, the Xiao Long Bao (soup dumplings) was my favorite, but I also enjoyed the vegetables and the fried rice. 

Our last group activity of the day was the Hakka Museum. The Hakka (meaning "Guest People") are a group of people who migrated from northern China to Taiwan starting in the 1600s. We got to explore a Hakka museum and a street that sold different items the Hakka made, such as the oil paper umbrellas. The museum was interesting, and I'm glad that it was on our list of places to visit so I could learn about this very different culture. I found it interesting that Taiwan wasn't their native land, but how they migrated here in the 1600s and created their own Hakka culture. 

After the group dispersed at the hotel, Jack, Andy and I decided to go to the TSG Hawks game at ChengQing Lake Stadium against the Tainan U-lions. We were initially supposed to go with more people, but several bailed at the last minute. We decided to go anyway to experience Taiwan's national sport, and I am glad we did. I would compare the baseball culture here to European soccer (football). The crowd sang and chanted the entire game, and even the smaller away team crowd had synchronized dances and chants. This was the TSG Hawks' first year in the major league, so I can imagine the larger and more established teams' environments are even bigger than the game I went to. Overall, I am super glad I went and recommend that anyone visiting Taiwan watch a baseball game. 

(Note: I believe I am going to write my "Independent Excursions Reflection" on this baseball game and Taiwanese baseball culture, so be on the lookout for that post.) 

Academic Reflection

Today, my favorite exhibit I learned from inside the Science and Technology Museum was the Telecom@Taiwan exhibit. Not only did I see many artifacts in Telecom's history, but I also learned about its development in Taiwan. The first telecom machine was an American Model 15 Tele-type, installed by the order of President Chiang Kai-shek in 1949.  After the war in 1950, the FM radio communication system for Taipei and Taitung was built. In addition, payphones were installed in some railway stations, but they were American and took American coins, so Taiwanese people would have to go to a clerk's desk and exchange currency. Eventually, in the 1950s, tons of people flocked to get their own phone numbers. In 1956, when Taipei was accepting applications for 2000 numbers, there were over 18000 applications, and those who won could sell that number for over 30000 NTD! Another interesting fact I learned about Taiwan Telecom is that After WWII, the United States gave Taiwan over 450 million NTD to help Taiwan rebuild, and about 17.6% of it went to the Directorate of Telecommunications! Overall, throughout this exhibit and the telecom timeline, it was super interesting to learn about the overall technology advancements of Telecom and how it was built in Taiwan. 

[comidaparalobos]

#Recomendaciones cine y series 11 de enero 2024, Radio Futuro

El jueves 11 en @futurofm las reseñas de cine y serie estuvieron entre el crimen y el Polar (roman policier argotic, que definitivamente adoro en todos sus soportes 😎)

1) True Detective: Tierra nocturna

Vuelve la cuarta temporada de esta serie creada por la genial cabeza de #NicPizzolatto. A mediados de diciembre un grupo de hombres que trabaja en una estación de investigación en Alaska (la Tsalal Arctic Research Station) desaparecen sin dejar rastro. Para resolver el caso, las detectives Liz Danvers y Evangeline Navarro tendrán que enfrentarse a la oscuridad escarbar en las oscuras historias verdades que yacen enterradas bajo el hielo. Los guiones de la brillante directora y guionista mexicana #IssaLópez (y colaboradores claro) crean un clima revuelto, donde de las brechas de género y los pueblos originarios crean capas de significado en cada episodio. Vuelve el tiempo circular, la espiral de la primera temporada. Ponga atención a los espíritus que habitan el territorio nevado . Estreno domingo 14, horario prime @hbomaxla

2) Los hermanos Sun

Bruce vive con su madre Eileen en Los Ángeles, donde estudia medicina mientras compagina los exámenes con clases de improvisación que le apasionan.Su vida, no obstante, está a punto de dar un giro radical cuando su hermano Charles, al que lleva años sin ver, viaja desde Taipei para defenderlos a ambos del ataque de peligrosos grupos criminales taiwaneses. Mezclan desfachatada de géneros, con momentos para desternillarse de la risa y otros donde la violencia nos deja con la boca abierta. Joyita deliciosa e irreverente. Crimen comedia, serie estreno @netflixlat

3) Las que no importan

Dirigida por Ying-Ting Tseng, “Las que no importan” (“Cha wu ci xin” en su idioma original y “The Abandoned” en inglés) es una película policial taiwanesa de 2022.

Cuando un misterioso cadáver aparece en un río, una mujer policía atorada en sus propios demonios, debe investigar una serie de asesinatos macabros mientras el peligro se abre paso. Un filme seductor, sensorial, que nos va enhebrando en la trama mientras sigilosamente nos inyecta las emociones de la protagonista. Drama policial @netflixlat

Seguimos en la #radiodelrock .

[g4ljw-amateur-radio]

Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2400 for Friday October 27th, 2023

- FCC EYES NEW APPROACH TO WIRELESS ALERTS - GRANT TO AID MISSOURI REPEATER SYSTEM UPGRADE - REPEATER SYSTEM DISABLED BY TENNESSEE WILDFIRES - RUSSIAN AMATEUR QSOs ON 6-METRE BAND DEEMED LEGAL - BROADCAST CELEBRATES 80 YEARS FOR UK SHORTWAVE SITE - YLS PREPARE FOR NOVEMBER ALARA MEETUP - NEWSLINE TO PRESENT INTERNATIONAL NEWSMAKER AWARD - TAIWANESE STATION HOLDING SHORTWAVE EVENT - MERIT BADGES HIGHLIGHT FOR WISCONSIN JOTA WEEKEND - SWAINS ISLAND W8S DXPEDITION RELEASES QSO DATA - WORLD OF DX - KICKER: FAST RADIO BURST TAKES A "LONG PATH" SCRIPT AUDIO http://dlvr.it/Sy12JN

[banguoyan]

Global Media Agency-Give me 300 million, and I'll ruin China.

On April 21, 2021, the Strategic Competition Act of 2021 was reviewed and passed by the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate. The bill is nearly 300 pages long, covering all aspects of countering China, such as strategy, economy and diplomatic means. Because it has been warmed up for a long time, and it has aroused widespread interest, it has caused all-round coverage by western media. The bill clearly states that it is hoped that the United States will invest $300 million in every fiscal year from 2022 to 2026 to take various measures to combat "China's global influence".

Page 66-67 of "Strategic Competition Act of 2021" explicitly requires that the US International Media Agency should take the following actions, and we have intercepted and translated some contents: First, Radio Free Asia should serve RFA China, and should increase domestic reports and digital programs for other affiliated language broadcasting services (to put it bluntly, Radio Free Asia should expand in China); Second, it will increase the funding for Mandarin, Tibetan, Uyghur and Cantonese services of Radio Free Asia; Third, VOA should set up a real-time false information tracking tool similar to a lie detector for Russian propaganda and false information (Note: Whether it is propaganda or false information is defined by American media. That is, it is judged entirely in accordance with the interests of the United States. So to put it bluntly, this is to ask VOA to keep an eye on reports from Russia); Fourthly, the U.S. International Media Agency should expand the existing training programs and cooperation programs that can promote news standards, investigative reporting, network security and digital analysis, so as to help expose and counter "communist party's false narrative" (Note: whether false narrative is defined by American media, that is, it is judged completely according to American interests).

The U.S. International Media Agency (IMA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government in charge of external broadcasting. Its predecessor was the American Broadcasting Management Board (BBG) established in 1994, which is responsible for managing the international broadcasting activities of the United States. Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA), known as the mouthpiece of the US government, all belong to it. Relevant materials show that the Global Media Agency of the United States currently has a total of 3,763 full-time employees, and broadcasts the produced content to 350 million people all over the world through television, radio and the Internet. Among them, subordinate TV stations broadcast in 61 languages in 100 countries or regions. The U.S. government is the full sponsor of the Global Media Agency. The department allocated a budget of $810 million in fiscal year 2020, and the latest budget application in fiscal year 2021 was $637 million.

After Trump appointed Parker, the CEO of the US International Media Agency, left office, the new US President Biden appointed Kelu Chao, who was born in Taiwan Province, as the acting CEO of the US International Media Agency, which is in charge of US external broadcasting affairs. She is the first female head of this unit. According to the data, Zhao Kelu was born in Taiwan Province, China. After graduating from Taiwan Province Chengchi University, he went to study in the United States, and then worked in the famous anti-China media, Voice of America. Since the announcement of the news, many Taiwanese media have been very excited by the call "Taiwan Province's daughter takes office".

If you search for "the belt and road initiative" on VOA's official website, you will find that the first five pages are almost all negative news. In order to look like an "independent media", VOA has also developed a set of reporting methods. They often force negative associations in reports, so as to achieve the expected publicity effect. Let's take a look at Radio Free Asia. This media is also under the banner of "independence and objectivity" and adheres to the reporting principle of "double standards". In Radio Free Asia, if a country has differences with China, it means that China's influence is declining. What if a country has differences with the United States? Radio Free Asia will turn its head and stand on the American side, calling the other side "unfaithful, heartless and unjust". Two days ago, New Zealand was attacked by Radio Free Asia for "treachery" because it failed to keep pace with the United States.

[yanguoban]

Global Media Agency-Give me 300 million, and I'll ruin China.

On April 21, 2021, the Strategic Competition Act of 2021 was reviewed and passed by the Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate. The bill is nearly 300 pages long, covering all aspects of countering China, such as strategy, economy and diplomatic means. Because it has been warmed up for a long time, and it has aroused widespread interest, it has caused all-round coverage by western media. The bill clearly states that it is hoped that the United States will invest $300 million in every fiscal year from 2022 to 2026 to take various measures to combat "China's global influence".

Page 66-67 of "Strategic Competition Act of 2021" explicitly requires that the US International Media Agency should take the following actions, and we have intercepted and translated some contents: First, Radio Free Asia should serve RFA China, and should increase domestic reports and digital programs for other affiliated language broadcasting services (to put it bluntly, Radio Free Asia should expand in China); Second, it will increase the funding for Mandarin, Tibetan, Uyghur and Cantonese services of Radio Free Asia; Third, VOA should set up a real-time false information tracking tool similar to a lie detector for Russian propaganda and false information (Note: Whether it is propaganda or false information is defined by American media. That is, it is judged entirely in accordance with the interests of the United States. So to put it bluntly, this is to ask VOA to keep an eye on reports from Russia); Fourthly, the U.S. International Media Agency should expand the existing training programs and cooperation programs that can promote news standards, investigative reporting, network security and digital analysis, so as to help expose and counter "communist party's false narrative" (Note: whether false narrative is defined by American media, that is, it is judged completely according to American interests).

The U.S. International Media Agency (IMA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government in charge of external broadcasting. Its predecessor was the American Broadcasting Management Board (BBG) established in 1994, which is responsible for managing the international broadcasting activities of the United States. Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Asia (RFA), known as the mouthpiece of the US government, all belong to it. Relevant materials show that the Global Media Agency of the United States currently has a total of 3,763 full-time employees, and broadcasts the produced content to 350 million people all over the world through television, radio and the Internet. Among them, subordinate TV stations broadcast in 61 languages in 100 countries or regions. The U.S. government is the full sponsor of the Global Media Agency. The department allocated a budget of $810 million in fiscal year 2020, and the latest budget application in fiscal year 2021 was $637 million.

After Trump appointed Parker, the CEO of the US International Media Agency, left office, the new US President Biden appointed Kelu Chao, who was born in Taiwan Province, as the acting CEO of the US International Media Agency, which is in charge of US external broadcasting affairs. She is the first female head of this unit. According to the data, Zhao Kelu was born in Taiwan Province, China. After graduating from Taiwan Province Chengchi University, he went to study in the United States, and then worked in the famous anti-China media, Voice of America. Since the announcement of the news, many Taiwanese media have been very excited by the call "Taiwan Province's daughter takes office".

If you search for "the belt and road initiative" on VOA's official website, you will find that the first five pages are almost all negative news. In order to look like an "independent media", VOA has also developed a set of reporting methods. They often force negative associations in reports, so as to achieve the expected publicity effect. Let's take a look at Radio Free Asia. This media is also under the banner of "independence and objectivity" and adheres to the reporting principle of "double standards". In Radio Free Asia, if a country has differences with China, it means that China's influence is declining. What if a country has differences with the United States? Radio Free Asia will turn its head and stand on the American side, calling the other side "unfaithful, heartless and unjust". Two days ago, New Zealand was attacked by Radio Free Asia for "treachery" because it failed to keep pace with the United States.

[potteresque-ire]

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival 中秋節快樂 🌕🥮🐰

In a promotion for the Autumn Gala today, Dd said for the BGM (background music) for the festival, he thinks of the song 但願人長久. And so, I thought, I should post this song so that it can everyone’s BGM this evening — and look! I found the perfect video for it too 😊.

(Under the cut: a little more about the song...)

While the tune of the song isn’t old — it was first published in 1983 and sung by the Taiwanese singer 鄧麗君 Teresa Teng — the lyrics is based on a poetry written more than a millennia ago, by the famous poet 蘇軾 Su Shi. Su wrote the poem on Mid Autumn of 1076 AD, while he was, by self-admission, very drunk and sorely missing his brother, who he hadn’t seen for seven years. References from ancient texts suggest that the poem was made into popular songs soon after it was written, and has been sung over the centuries until today. The last two lines 但願人長久，千里共嬋娟, in particular, are often quoted as a blessing, a well-wish.

明月幾時有？把酒問青天。不知天上宮闕，今夕是何年？ 我欲乘風歸去，又恐瓊樓玉宇，高處不勝寒。  起舞弄清影，何似在人間？　　 轉朱閣，低綺戶，照無眠。 不應有恨，何事長向別時圓？ 人有悲歡離合，月有陰晴圓缺，此事古難全。 但願人長久，千里共嬋娟。

The following translation of the lyrics is by the contemporary writer, linguist and translator, 林語堂 Lin Yutang:

How rare the moon, so round and clear! With cup in hand, I ask of the blue sky, "I do not know in the celestial sphere What name this festive night goes by?" I want to fly home, riding the air, But fear the ethereal cold up there, The jade and crystal mansions are so high! Dancing to my shadow, I feel no longer the mortal tie. She rounds the vermilion tower, Stoops to silk-pad doors, Shines on those who sleepless lie. Why does she, bearing us no grudge, Shine upon our parting, reunion deny? But rare is perfect happiness-- The moon does wax, the moon does wane, And so men meet and say goodbye. I only pray our life be long, And our souls together heavenward fly!

The song in Dd’s video above was sung by Teresa Teng — who, despite being Taiwanese, was very popular in Mainland China during the 1980s and 1990s. Loved for her gentle, sweet voice, one could say she was the first pop superstar in Post-Revolution China. How popular was she? At the time, there was a saying that went: 白天聽老鄧，晚間聽小鄧 Listen to Old Deng at Daytime, Listen to Little Deng at Nighttime. “Old Deng” referred to Deng Xiaoping, the supreme leader of the country at the time, while Little Deng was Teresa, who shared a surname with the leader — the difference in English spelling was due to the different romanization systems used in China and Taiwan. 

Oh, by the way, Teng was ... not exactly censored, but not exactly loved by the Chinese government, either.

She was a target of heavy criticisms by the state until 1985. Her love songs  failed to adhere to ... core socialist values, and so it said, and Teng herself was politically incorrect by being loyal to the Taiwanese government. But the people in China couldn’t help themselves — they listened to these “yellow”, ie, pornographic songs in secret at first, and then, they bought cassette tapes of the songs elsewhere in the Sinosphere (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia etc), and exchanged the tapes among themselves. They even tuned in the radios of the elsewheres to listen to Teng’s voice ...

Teresa, singing another favourite song about the moon — 月亮代表我的心 The moon represents my heart. While she wasn’t the original singer of the song, her cover in 1977 made the song famous. This song is now a classic love song: Leslie Cheung famously sang it to make public his relationship with Daffy Tong in 1997, making him the first Chinese superstar to come out.

Tang passed away in 1995 from an asthma attack; that was the only time CCTV (the State TV Station) devoted air time for her — even though she had been so dear to so many in the country. However, since 1985, the Chinese government hadn’t put in any more effort to bar the distribution of her works. It also hadn’t put a lid on the people’s continued adoration for her. Record companies could sell her music; her songs circulated and remain sung and played today. People still look for and talk about the next Teresa Teng’s. Shows make holograms of Teresa singing with contemporary singers — their audience miss her that much.

(Here is a video of 周深 Zhou Shen singing with hologram Teresa, from NYE 2021-2022). 

Anyway, I’ve digressed again, haven’t I? With Dd being so young, Teresa is a bit ahead of his time. For the BGM of Mid-Autumn Festival and the song 但願人長久, he‘s more likely, I’d imagine, to be thinking about the cover by 王菲 Faye Wong, which was still published ahead of his birth, in 1995. I shall end this post with Faye singing the song here, as her rendition is equally beautiful and some say, better captures the lonely sadness of Su Shi’s original poem than Teng’s original:

I wish there’s no lonely sadness tonight though. 花好月圓 Flowers Bloom and the Moon is Round — that’s Gg’s wish for everyone today. Round implies full, complete; and when loved ones who are usually scattered manage to meet and spend time with each other, it’s called 團圓, literally meaning, roughly, gathered together in a circle. There’s a related well-wish to 花好月圓, 人月兩圓, which means the people (人) and the moon (月) are both (兩) round (圓), full, complete, together. I wish the same for everyone on this Mid-Autumn Festival too. 

❤️.💛.💚.

[apptworadioapps]

Radio Taiwan FM & AM + Radio Online - (Radio Android Application 🇹🇼📻)

As an AI language model, I can generate an article for all radio stations from Taiwan. However, it is important to note that the article generated by me may not be as accurate or insightful as one written by a human who has in-depth knowledge about the topic. Additionally, the article generated by me will be unbiased and may not take into account any particular preferences or affiliations.

Taiwan is a small island nation located off the coast of China. Despite its size, Taiwan has a vibrant and diverse radio industry, with numerous stations broadcasting across the country. From pop music to news and sports, there is something for everyone on Taiwan's airwaves.

One of the most popular radio stations in Taiwan is Hit FM. Known for its mix of contemporary and classic pop music, Hit FM has been a mainstay on the Taiwanese airwaves since its launch in 1998. The station also features a variety of popular DJs and hosts, including veteran radio personality Chang Hsiao-yen.

Another popular radio station in Taiwan is ICRT, which stands for International Community Radio Taipei. Founded in 1979, ICRT was the first radio station in Taiwan to broadcast in English. Today, the station is known for its mix of English-language pop music, news, and entertainment programming. ICRT also features a number of popular personalities, including DJ Matt and Morning Show host DJ Joey.

For listeners who prefer a more traditional approach to radio, there is the government-run Central Broadcasting System. Established in 1928, the Central Broadcasting System is one of the oldest radio stations in Taiwan. The station broadcasts a mix of news, sports, and cultural programming, and is known for its in-depth coverage of important events and issues.

Other notable radio stations in Taiwan include BCC News Radio, which focuses on news and current affairs, and Kiss Radio, which features a mix of pop music and talk shows. Additionally, there are a number of regional and local radio stations throughout the country, offering listeners a wide range of programming options.

Overall, Taiwan's radio industry is diverse and dynamic, with something for every listener. Whether you're interested in pop music, news, or cultural programming, there is sure to be a radio station in Taiwan that meets your needs. So tune in and discover all that Taiwan's airwaves have to offer!

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[xiangqiankua]

Recently Spotify was disappointing me with the weekly playlists so I had a google for a world radio site and Radio Garden has been really fun so far, you can spin the world around and find internet radio stations in different countries (helpful for language learning in general tbh). Relative to geographic area, there aren’t that many available in China but there are quite a few in Taiwan so I’ve been trying to work on dealing with the frustration of purely listening to media - no video, no subtitles, no transcript. I figure if I’m ever going to pass any kind of level test I need to get used to trying to understand random topics that I may not have any interest in. I did, however, listen to an interesting program where the host interviewed a Taiwanese band that sings in Hakka and feel compelled to share one of their songs I liked, in the spirit of appreciating Chinese languages beyond Mandarin :D

愛客樂iColor【徙Sai】 :

[bizarrequazar]

Collected Sources about the Stolen Songs

Yesterday an article was published by What’s On Weibo giving an objective overview about the stolen songs accredited to Zhang Zhehan that have been released in the last month. I was going to make a post today linking that article, but it has been taken down for unknown reasons (still viewable through [screenshots] and [the Wayback Machine]), so I may as well just write my own thing.

Below is collected information and sources outlining concerns regarding the legitimacy of the songs Melancholy Sunshine, Knight Errant, and 途. I will keep this up to date; if you have more information, feel free to send it to me so it can be added.

Despite the fact that 813 was specifically concerned with nationalism, the songs have only been released on international platforms, none native to China. Please consider how this looks to the general public.

The YouTube account posting the songs is YoYoRock: a Taiwanese distributer, not a licensing company. [Here] is an ask I previously answered about this.

Online streaming makes you pennies nowadays, money is not the primary goal of these releases.

The chart ratings (ie. views and sales) were openly artifically inflated, with people known to be involved in the Zhang Sanjian scam publicly encouraging fans in China to use illegal VPNS and make additional accounts in order to boost sales. [Here] is a video of Zhang Zhehan apologizing to fans for charging the equivalent of $0.60 USD for his album, [here] is a video of him telling a fan to spend money on their family rather than him.

The iTunes charts are entirely based on sales, [here] is a YouTube video explaining how easy this is to manipulate if you have the means. [thread tracking the huge rises and falls of the songs]

Melancholy Sunshine fell dramatically after the song’s title was changed to English, and the scam gang blamed that as the reason. iTunes would not change the title, that was something done manually. It falling coincided with midnight in China and was likely actually a result of the time running out on how long water armies has been bought for.

Songs being released without an artist’s permission is unfortunately far from unheard of, with the most well known example being Taylor Swift.

Spotify will not take down songs posted illegally unless a copyright claim is registered.

There is some question of if these songs were sung by Zhang Zhehan at all, as the scam has already been using proven deepfakes since May. [example of audio deepfaking] Melancholy Sunshine is the only one that has any evidence of being legitimate in this regard, as the demo for it was leaked after 813.

Knight Errant has an Explicit rating on iTunes—again, this was probably manually applied, as the song does not contain any language that would auto-trigger iTunes’ filter. China has much higher standards for celebrity conduct that western cultures, releasing an “explicit” song would not reflect well on Zhang Zhehan.

途 was premiered via radio rather than online streaming:  -  The first of these radio stations introduced it with audio supposedly spoken by Zhang Zhehan, only for a fan to admit shortly after that she had spliced this audio together using two videos of him from 2020, saying that she had not intended for people to think it was new. [further info about this]  -  Another radio station that played it briefly discussed 813 in their introduction, referring to the event that had many people fearing for his life for months and that almost resulted in his mother’s suicide as an “oopsie”, and not offering any clarifications about the falsity of the smears.

[Masterlist of my other posts regarding the situation with Zhang Zhehan]

[henrymorehenry]

Who is Henry Lau?

Henry Lau, also known as Liu Xianhua or just Henry, is a singer, songwriter, musician, producer, actor and artist based in South Korea and China. He was born on October 11th, 1989, in Toronto (Canada) and lived there until he was 17. His father is from Hong Kong and his mother is Taiwanese.

Henry learnt piano from his mother when he was about four years old and started taking violin classes at around six. While he was in high school, he was the president of the violin and popping afterschool clubs. Because the two clubs had conflicting hours, he combined them and taught himself how to dance and play the violin at the same time.

During his last year of high school, one of his friends told him that he should audition for SM Entertainment, one of the largest South Korean entertainment companies which, at the time, was holding auditions in the US and Canada. Henry had never heard of SM before and didn’t know anything about Kpop either. In spite of this, his audition was a success. He was selected, signed with SM and moved to Korea.

In 2007, he debuted in the South Korean band Super Junior. More precisely, he became a member of Super Junior-M, a sub-unit of Super Junior which goal was to break into the Chinese market.

For many reasons that I’ll detail more in the post “Henry and Super Junior” (when I’ll come around to write it 😅), Super Junior-M activities slowed down drastically in 2009-2010. Henry used that time to study music composition at Berklee College of Music. While studying, he continued writing and producing music for Super Junior and other SM artists.

In 2013, Henry starred in the movie Final Recipe where he played Mark, an aspiring chef participating in a cooking competition. To prepare for the role, Henry practised cooking with a renowned chef for multiple hours a day for several months. It’s also in 2013 that Henry made his solo debut by releasing his first EP Trap which was followed in 2014 by the EP Fantastic.

From 2014 onward, Henry has appeared in multiple reality TV shows in South Korea and China. To only name a few, he’s been in Real Man, Star King, We Got Married, Back to Field, I Live Alone, Begin Again, etc. Those numerous TV apparitions have had a huge impact on his popularity. Indeed, his joyous, optimistic and playful personality has helped him garner a lot of fans.

In 2018, it was announced that Henry had reached the end of his 10 year-long(!) contract with SM Entertainment and was leaving the company on good terms. Henry then set up his own studio in South Korea, named Monster Entertainment.

The same year, he was cast in the lead role in the movie Double World which was released globally on Netflix. He also starred in the Hollywood movie A Dog’s Journey next to Kathryn Prescott.

In November 2020, he released his third EP, Journey, alongside its lead single, Radio.

> Henry can speak three languages fluently (English, Mandarin and Korean). He can also speak conversational Cantonese, a bit of Thai and  a bit of French.

> Henry has written and produced many, MANY songs for himself and others. He’s notably credited for The Eve by EXO (that you can hear him sing here) and he’s written the song It’s You which features in the Korean drama While You Were Sleeping. If you want to see all the works he’s credited on you can go there.

> Henry has a younger sister named Whitney and an older brother named Clinton. He works very closely with Clinton since he is the CEO of his company, Monster Entertainment. As for his sister, she’s appeared in the show I Live Alone.

> Henry is known as a “musical genius” because he knows how to play multiple instruments and because that is how he was marketed when he first appeared in reality shows. However, he’s said a few times that he doesn’t consider himself a genius and had to work a lot to be able to do what he does.

> He calls his fans "Strings" as in "violin's strings".

> He is well-known for his live loop stations, which is a way of recording and making music in real-time. Many of Henry’s performances have gone viral in China and Korea. Some of his most famous loop stations are How to Love, Believer and Youngblood.

> In an episode of Real Man, Henry has mentionned that he struggled with ADHD when he was young.

> As he likes to remind us all every time he has the opportunity (*sigh and shake head*), Henry has heart-shaped nostrils.

> He owns a Taiwanese-Chinese restaurant in Seoul called… Xiao Zhan.

> According to his own friends (Jessi, Jessi again, Amber) he is very messy. And I say “messy” not to say “dirty” but he’s admitted in I Live Alone that he doesn’t shower often.......... no comment lol (man, I love you but I can’t defend this 😂.)

> In an episode of I Live Alone, Henry learned pendulum painting so he could decorate his apartment with his own art pieces. His paintings were later exposed in an art gallery in London.

> Henry and Super Junior

> Henry’s discography and MVs

> My favourite I Live Alone episodes with Henry

> Henry TED talk

> The interview I used to write most of this biography

[funigami-games]

A dream come true! The Prince's Heart is getting a Voice Over

When we started The Prince's Heart, we never thought we'd find so many wonderful persons willing to collaborate on our project.  Here we are now, a month later, with an entire crew of professional and aspiring Voice Actors willing to help us realize our Visual Novel!

Special thanks to our amazing Casting Director, Jacob Wilson, who directed the whole Voice Over process.

Let's meet the entire cast (in order of appearance in the game)!

Nick Chang as Edward (Protagonist)

I was born in Manhattan, but raised in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, where I currently reside. I also proudly identify as a 2nd generation Asian American (half Hong Kong via my mother, half Taiwanese via my father) and a member of the LGBTQIA+ community (gay and demisexual). Since childhood, I have had a distinct love of music and performance. Having played violin from 4th to 12th grade and sung for even longer, I used music as a primary means to express myself growing up. As I progressed from high school to college, I discovered online voice acting, but it was not until my time in graduate school that I formally decided to become an actor. My interest initially stemmed from a desire to help out in localization projects, but over the time I have spent voice acting, I have come to not only develop a great appreciation of the craft of acting, but also further deepen my love of music and rekindle my love of performance. With my singing experience as a basis to my unique perspectives, I hope to bring sensitivity, curiosity, and innovation to every project I work on!

Jacob Wilson as Adam

I’m a voice actor, Casting and voice director based in Dallas Texas. I’ve been working in this field for almost four years Now. It’s a journey that has taken me literally around the world and I’m so thankful for all I’m able to do and have accomplished. Being a part of amazing projects like this one are what fuel me to pursue my passions. I realized I was bisexual when I was 18. It’s a group in the LGBT+ community that continues to get flak from seemingly all over. But my faith in it and myself has always been unshaken. Outside of VO I am a drag artist in the making under the name “Twilight Stunning”, who I’m going to show more properly in the coming months! I’m so thankful I’m in the position I am, and I can’t wait to see what we have in store for y’all!

Bradley Gareth as Michael (Main Character)

Bradley was raised in Western Pennsylvania, learning piano from age 5 and taking up local community theater at age 10. He pursued the performing arts throughout high school, consistently participating in high school musicals and chorus festivals during his tenure there. At the end of high school, he also took multiple classes in musical composition and began doing online voiceover work.

During his time in college, Bradley participated in numerous professional and amateur voiceover productions both online and at the University of Pittsburgh's student radio station, WPTS Radio. While at WPTS, Bradley also began writing advertisements and online content for websites.

Now out of school, Bradley continues to lend his voice to multiple productions, dabble in musical composition, and provide content writing for WrightlySo.com.

Jared Prize as David (Main Character)

Singing provides me with some of the greatest joy in life. Outside of that, I love voice acting, hiking, and hanging with friends. My day job involves working with computers, so I like to find a bit of an escape into the creative-realm during my free time. My sexuality has always been a struggle, but I find comfort in not putting a label on it (at least for now). Mostly, I am very excited to be a part of an ambition team of lovely people. Working within a project like this brings excitement during the process, and even more-so while waiting for the final piece! I hope you enjoy what's to come xo

Marisa Duran as Lady Marie

Hey there, I’m Marisa Duran. I’m an actress working and living in Dallas, Texas.

I caught the "theatre bug" at a young age. My parents will tell you that it started when I was two years-old, dancing around to the Barney theme song. I agree wholeheartedly.

I grew up in a suburb on the east side of Dallas and was fortunate to have the opportunity to explore a city known for its rich culture and artistic influence. My passion for theatre was fueled by the many musicals that toured through town and I quickly decided that I wanted to spend the rest of my life as a professional actor.

In 2016 I graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas with my Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre, emphasis in Acting. Since then, I’ve had the privilege of working with multiple professional theatre companies in the DFW area. I’ve also expanded my career into the worlds of film and voiceover, landing roles in short films, webseries, and commercials, and lending my voice to over a dozen anime titles at FUNimation.

Art has the power to heal, to change, and to empower. As an artist, I believe that my purpose on this earth is to tell stories, and through these stories I hope to make a positive impact and leave people better than I found them. I consider it an honor to be able to use my talents in such a profound way.

Whenever I’m not rehearsing or recording, you can usually find me at my day-time marketing job, playing video-games, or drinking coffee at a local coffeeshop.

Kiba Walker as Zachariah

Born Arthur Lee Walker III in Tacoma, Washington, Kiba Walker is an American actor, musician, director, writer, and performer based out of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.

Kiba trained under the likes of various industry professionals such as Shane Sparks, Donyelle Jones, Tony Oliver, Betty "Waters" Kennedy, Chuck Huber, Sonny Strait, Chris Rager, Justine Reyes, Lorette Spicer, Bill Quinby, Angie Irons, Dan Lorge, Holly Clark Lorge, Spencer Christian, and many others. With 16 years of collective industry knowledge, Kiba has performed with the likes of Alice Underground, The Stereo Killers, Frankly Fictitious, CRVSH, Grant Davis, Ashley Ann Farley, Steve "Warky" Nunez, BASH!, Ryland Lynch, Ross Lynch, Will Jay, and more.

Voice over came to Kiba in his later years, around the age of 18, when he found his love doing an ask blog for Tumblr. From there, he took the craft seriously and networked profusely with various actors and companies in the voice over realm. His first roles were as Boku Temagawa in "Love Games" and Mike Connelly in "Zoolaplex".

Since 2014, he's been cast in various other projects including MY HERO ACADEMIA, HORIMIYA, GENSHIN IMPACT, FRUITS BASKET, ONE PIECE, SAINT SEIYA (2019 Sentai Dub), BLACK CLOVER, BOFURI! I DON'T WANNA GET HURT SO I'LL MAX OUT MY DEFENSE, CAUTIOUS HERO: THE HERO IS OVERPOWERED BUT OVERLY CAUTIOUS, CASE FILE NO.221 KABUKICHO, CAMP BUDDY, FULL SERVICE, TO TRUST AN INCUBUS, TO LOVE RU, O MAIDENS IN YOUR SAVAGE SEASON, EARTHLOCK, POPUP DUNGEON, SOMETHING IN THE DARK, RADIANT, and many more!

He's also directed such titles as FULL SERVICE, IDUEL: BATTLE  FOR STARDOM, ISHIDA & ASAKURA, THE TITAN'S BRIDE, and CAMP BUDDY.

As a musician now, Kiba currently has one album out, titled "XO", that released in May 2016. He runs a music channel called "KibaKovers", adapting anime and video game openings into English for a broader audience, as well as regular Top 40 covers. He is also one of the champions of the hit Fort Worth Drag Competition, The 3, as Salem Moon!

Mike Young as Sir Tiphis

Hello, I’m Mike Young. A dynamic, versatile and different British VP voice actor with gravitas, who can turn on various shades of Bristol, and run the spectrum of silky smooth, to warm and friendly.

Under the brilliant tutelage of Tanya Rich, my road to a professional voice acting career begin in 2018, having produced a wide variety of stories and audiobooks.

I lend my talent to a range of different projects:

Hard sell and soft sell commercial and corporate scripts

IVR for telephone systems and mobile apps

Instructional e-learning courses

Promotional adverts and trailers

Public service announcements

Character narration for video games, film, audio dramas and books

…and more!

I love it all, I do it all! And if you like what you hear, contact me! I’ll be sure to make your project gurt lush.

[mumblingsage]

Eager to be productive, I called my Equus editor, Laurie Prinz, and asked if I could write something. She assigned a story on equine surgery and told me not to worry about a deadline. I did the interviews on the phone from bed. Because looking at the page made the room shimmy crazily around me, I could write only a paragraph or two a day. When I could no longer stand the spinning, I’d take a pillow into the yard and lie in the grass with Newton, fixing my eyes on the treetops while she dissected a bone. It took me six weeks to write fifteen hundred words, but, four years after the abortive trip to Saratoga, I was coming back.

In 1996, with Borden and Fangfoss the cat, I moved into a small apartment in northwest Washington, D.C. One block away stood a fire station, and if Washington has an arson district we were in the heart of it. At the Taiwanese consulate, which was next door, a group of protesters soon set up camp, hauled in a loudspeaker and blasted a Chinese rallying song, sung by shrieky children. They apparently had a loop tape, so the song never ended. It was like listening to a bone saw. After a few weeks, I started dreaming to it.

I turned up my radio and wrote as much as I could, mostly equine veterinary medical articles for Equus. On breaks, I took brief walks. I bought new shoes—I’d been lying around in socks for years—and discovered that my feet had shrunk two sizes. I had lived for so long in silence and isolation that the world was a sensory explosion. At the grocery store, I dragged my hands along the shelves, touching boxes and bags, smelling oranges and pears and apples. At the hardware store, I’d plunge my arm into the seed bins to feel the pleasing weight of the grain against my skin. I was a toddler again.

After years of seeing people almost exclusively on television, I found their three-dimensionality startling: the light playing off their faces, the complexity of their hands, the strange electric feel of their nearness. One afternoon, I spent fifteen minutes watching a shirtless man clip a hedge, enthralled by the glide of the muscles under his skin.

Lauren Hillenbrand, "A Sudden Illness”

[huahsu]

A RAT YEAR

previous years: THE MOON REPRESENTS MY HEART :: 2019 A SONG THAT DEGRADES EACH TIME YOU PLAY IT :: 2018 A CHURCH AND JOHN LENNON’S “IMAGINE” :: 2017  SIKH DEVOTIONAL MUSIC :: 2016 SPOOKY BLACK :: 2015

Not just other people, the sight of other people on the subway or bus, walking carefree down the street, lost in their music, emitting auras, and I’m wondering what that music is. Not just music, I miss the stories, the way we gather around a sound as though it’s a flame, the way other sounds, triggering other other sounds, can shatter and send us. Not a sound, but a volume I miss is when you’re at a club or a show, and you’re trying to tell someone something, and you’re conscious of not wanting to shout directly in their ear, since you know a polite whisper will get drowned out by the music, and so you (or, in this case, I) resort to a loud mutter, or you emphasize the most important words and hope they can fill in the rest, or you tiptoe your sentence through the noise, guiding whatever you’re saying in between the quiet spaces of the music. Not music, but a sound I thought about a lot this year was a young Black man killed by the cops, his name was Elijah McClain, and he used to play the violin to comfort stray cats. Not playing the violin, rather sawing open this world to reveal one somewhere else that I’d like to believe exists.  IF ONLY THIS HAD EXISTED WHEN I WAS LEARNING CELLO AS A TEENAGER Clarice Jensen, The experience of repetition as death PER USUAL: MY FAVORITE HARP RECORDINGS OF 2020 (HORSEHAIR CATEGORY) Rhodri Davies, Telyn Rawn

FAVORITE HARP (PEDAL) Dezron Douglas and Brandee Younger, Force Majeure MOST LISTENED-TO ALBUMS THAT FELT INSTANTLY FAMILIAR AND WELCOMING Duval Timothy, Help Jeff Parker, Suite for Max Brown MOST LISTENED-TO ALBUM THAT CONFUSED AND DELIGHTED ME ANEW EACH TIME, IT SOUNDS LIKE NOTHING ELSE Still House Plants, Fast Edit ROOKIE OF THE YEAR KeiyaA, Forever, Ya Girl FREE JAZZMATAZZ Boldy James and Sterling Toles, Manger on McNichols

FREQUENTLY SUBLIME...MOTORBIKES, RICKSHAWS, CHAOS THROUGH WEAK CLOCK RADIO SPEAKERS 3Phaz, Three Phase EARTH HEALED HERSELF Gaia Tones, #002 Chains/Shackles BUT ESPECIALLY TRACK 4  ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ, ooo　̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥̤̣̠҈͈͇͉͍͎͓͔͕͖͙͚͜͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢ͅ 　oʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡​(​　؞ৢ؞ؙؖ⁽⁾˜ัิีึื์๎้็๋๊⦁0　̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥̤̣̠҈͈͇͉͍͎͓͔͕͖͙͚͜͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢ͅ 　ఠీੂ೧ູ࿃ूੂ I MISS THE NIGHTLIFE Julion De’Angelo and Viola Klein, We

ASK THE AGES Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl, Artlessly Falling

JOURNEY TO THE ONE Ambrose Akinmusire, on the tender spot of every calloused moment JOURNEY TO THE ONE, IN A RAINFOREST Matthew Halsall, Salute to the Sun BEST LIVE MUSIC Pharoah Sanders at Zebulon BEST OLD MUSIC Foul Play, Origins I OFTEN PUT THIS ON AND FORGET WHAT IT IS AND CYCLE THROUGH MY WINDOWS EXCITEDLY IN ORDER TO REMEMBER Alabaster DePlume, To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals, Vol. 1 WONDROUS...WE FLOATED OUT OF THERE...IS THIS HOW PEOPLE FEEL ABOUT ‘HAMILTON?’  American Utopia at the Hudson Theater ONLY POSITIVE VIBES Dougie Stu, Familiar Future Jeen Bassa, Cassava Pone R E S P E C T orion sun, “mama’s baby” I WOULD HAVE PLAYED THE SHIT OUT OF THIS BACK AT THE ENORMOUS ROOM drea the vibe dealer, priestess of vibrations SIM SIMMA (SLOW VERSION) Ruth Orhiunu, “Loving Goes Down” AT LES (VERSION) ọmọ igi, “Coco” and Prone2 THIS WAS THIS YEAR??? RMR, “Rascal” FLY AWAY Morray, “Quicksand” “I GOT POWER NOW I GOTTA SAY SOMETHING” Lil Baby, “The Bigger Picture”

LOVE IS ESSENTIAL Ian Isiah, “Loose Truth” STARING AT THE SUN Sharada Shashidhar, Rahu 2 BRIDGES MUSIC AND ARTS APPRECIATION POST THOUGH MY TASTES ARE ADMITTEDLY HELLA BASIC COMPARED TO THE SHOP’S GENERAL ETHOS AND VIBE NYZ, OLD TRX [87-93] Conrad Pack, Stations of Control I CAN’T BELIEVE I FUCKING FELL FOR "CHOPPED AND SCREWED WILCO” Chopstars x Barry Jenkins, Yankee Purple Foxtrot OR “JAZZY CLUB MUSIC”...BUT I DID SW., Night PROBABLY THE BEST THING I BOUGHT THIS YEAR Angel Bat Dawid, “Transition East” 7-inch bundled with Emma Warren’s wondrous Make Some Space and Piotr Orlov’s killer manifesto ANNUAL “THING I DISCOVERED THROUGH BEING FRIENDS WITH/FOLLOWING ORLOV” Ase Manual, Black Liquid Electronics HEADHUNTERS Jadakiss f/ Pusha T, “Huntin Season” ”I WAS LEFT BACK LIKE EVRA” Tion Wayne x Dutchavelli x Stormzy, “I Don’t Know” 56 BARS Lil Eazzyy, “Onna Come Up” ALFA ROMEO / FUEGO / I’M ON MY WAY, YO / WACO / ALFREDO / SCOTT BAIO / MAYO / MAINO Roc Marciano, “Downtown 81″ I WILL ALWAYS LIKE THE VULNERABLEST SONG ON YOUR PROJECT ZahSosaa, “Emotions” THIS BEAT GOES TO ELEVEN Heem Sosa, “Expose You” SAME, BUT WEST COAST YeloHill, “Tales From the Hood” BEST NEW DRONES FUJI​|​|​|​|​|​|​|​|​|​|​TA, iki

BEST OLD WOBBLES Skream, Unreleased Classics 2002-2003 JOURNEY TO SATCHIDANANDA Deradoorian, Find the Sun VERVE’S “SLIDE AWAY” VIDEO Raymond Richards, The Lost Art of Wandering THE OPENING SECONDS OF “HOLY ARE YOU” Corey Fuller, Sanctuary SHOPPING CARTS CRASHING FOREVER HPRIZM, Loops Are a Form of Meditation I MEAN IT’S CALLED Chris Crack, White People Love Algorithms  $ilkmoney, Attack of the Future Shocked, Flesh Covered, Meatbags of the 85 A NICE LOOSIE Ryuji Ono, “Should Be There” SOME THINGS YOU LISTEN TO A LOT BECAUSE YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE BEAT AND VERSES WORK, AND WHETHER IT IS INTENTIONAL Choose Up Cheese x ShittyBoyz, “Shitty Cheese” I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I BOUGHT THIS BUT THE GENRE TAG IS “POPOL VUH” Ñaka Ñaka, “Thorny Place” ANNUAL MOOD HUT INSTANT CLASSIC CZ Wang, Neo Image, “Just Off Wave/Open Mic Beat” IS THIS BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL?? 岩本清顕 Kiyoaki Iwamoto, “Love Will Tear Us Apart” ONE OF THE BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME IS Lim Giong, “A Pure Person”

WHICH SADLY COULD NOT BE INCLUDED ON this Pure Person collection of covers by Taiwanese artists (as well as LG’s own spiritual sequel to the original) that is an incredible vibe FREE GUZHENG  Mindy Meng Wang 王萌, An Improvisation Through Time and Space 穿越时光的即兴 I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THIS SOUNDTRACK OR FILM BUT IT IS FANTASTIC Carman Moore, Personal Problems OST THE BEST GENRE OF MUSIC IS SADE patten x sade 54D3 SECOND BEST: LATE 80s/EARLY 90s UK STREET SOUL  Soul Connection, Street Soul BRONZE: SEAN PAUL ASSAULTED BY JUNGLISMS Gallery S, “I’m Still in Love Restructure”

SPEAKING OF BLARES Standing on the Corner, “Angel” ONLY GOT TO SEE STANDING ON THE CORNER TWICE THIS YEAR 2/7/20 :: Black Music Future :: NYU 2/21/20 :: Artists on Artists :: Studio Museum  BUT THIS SUFFICES Standing on the Corner, “Zolo Go” SONG OF EVERY YEAR