SOUND TYPE CONCERT: Kengchakaj

SOUND TYPE 2025 opens with Kengchakaj, Bangkok-born & New York-based award-winning pianist, improviser, and electronics experimentalist. Kengchakaj’s practice engages with organizing and improvising sounds that draw inspiration from ancestral soundscapes and modes of collaboration and expression rooted in Southeast Asian tradition and lineage. He will be performing a piece entitled Lak Lan Yon Yæng ลักลั่น ย้อนแย้ง; a multimedia performance in collaboration with visual artist Nitcha Tothong.