Kaiwei is the progressive electronic music project of Calvin Kaiˇ-Weiˉ Chang, a Brooklyn-based Taiwanese composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer of contemporary music.
Stylistically aligning with traditions of industrial, glitch, ambient & progressive dance, Kaiwei’s works often explore combinations of experimental techniques, diverse compositional approaches & varying forms. His compositions often emphasize timbral & textural elements, while fusing a vast improvisational vocabulary with unorthodox post-production, songwriting and sound design methods.
As a producer, he has produced for musicians such as Elliot Cole, Cherophobiac, Luisa Bressan, Andrés Volkov, Zena Marie and Olivia D. Jones. As a performer-composer, he has worked with NY-based artists such as Ethan Cohn, Pauline Roberts, Shinya Lin, Jonathan Reisin, choreographer Audrey Chou, fashion designer Barbara Bao, graphic designer Nancy Hu, Hamburg-based visual artist Melanie Stirner, and was the composer and sound designer of theater director Ichen Wang’s 2022 stage play, Dress In Code.
Kaiwei’s His debut LP, Reprocessor (“darkly invigorating, glitchy soundscapes, touting a dynamic range from unsettling spaciousness to dexterous rhythmic haunts, at times resembling a cross of Burial and Oneohtrix Point Never” - Obscure Sound 2024) was released under Long Echo Records in 2023. It is a sonic documentation and "musicalization" of Covid19 era found sounds, with songs composed between 2020-2022.
Stylistically aligning with traditions of industrial, glitch, ambient & progressive dance, Kaiwei’s works often explore combinations of experimental techniques, diverse compositional approaches & varying forms. His compositions often emphasize timbral & textural elements, while fusing a vast improvisational vocabulary with unorthodox post-production, songwriting and sound design methods.
As a producer, he has produced for musicians such as Elliot Cole, Cherophobiac, Luisa Bressan, Andrés Volkov, Zena Marie and Olivia D. Jones. As a performer-composer, he has worked with NY-based artists such as Ethan Cohn, Pauline Roberts, Shinya Lin, Jonathan Reisin, choreographer Audrey Chou, fashion designer Barbara Bao, graphic designer Nancy Hu, Hamburg-based visual artist Melanie Stirner, and was the composer and sound designer of theater director Ichen Wang’s 2022 stage play, Dress In Code.
Kaiwei’s His debut LP, Reprocessor (“darkly invigorating, glitchy soundscapes, touting a dynamic range from unsettling spaciousness to dexterous rhythmic haunts, at times resembling a cross of Burial and Oneohtrix Point Never” - Obscure Sound 2024) was released under Long Echo Records in 2023. It is a sonic documentation and "musicalization" of Covid19 era found sounds, with songs composed between 2020-2022.
