Dead Loop, is a meditation on risk, memory, and the haunting legacy of forbidden movement(s). The titles of the two tracks—1972 and 1977—refer to when the infamous gymnastic bars move, the ‘Korbut Flip’, was performed for the first (and last) time. Deemed so perilous the flip had to be banned from international competition following its first execution at the 1972 Munich Olympics by 17-year-old Soviet gold medallist, Olga Korbut. In 1977, another Soviet gymnast, Elena Mukhina, modified the risky flip with an additional twist… cementing the move’s mythological status with an additional re-iteration.

Over two brief sides of tape, Flora Yin Wong narrates the myth of the forbidden Korbut Flip with elongated, processed, and looped layers of the kemençe (an Eastern Mediterranean stringed instrument found in Turkey, Greece, and Iran). The strings of the kemençe are bowed, plucked and struck, echoing the gymnast’s own uncanny motions, cycles, and steps on and around the bars. Flora Yin Wong manipulates the sounds through various pedals and GRM Tools to craft an unpredictable diptych of haunted soundscapes. Recorded in London, this music is immersive and tense, brimming with a sense of suspended risk, much like the gymnast tumbling around the bars.

Limited Edition tape. Pro Dubbed at Monotype. Printed at L'automatica letterpress in Barcelona on 100 year old Heidelberg machines. Artwork by Oficina de Disseny.

Out now via Paralaxe Editions (@paralaxe-editions) https://florayinwong.bandcamp.com/album/dead-loop


Dead Loop - 1972 [Preview Clip]

Doyenne Records: https://doyenne-books.bandcamp.com

Contact: Floraytw@gmail.com

UPCOMING:
8 Oct: Modern Obscure at Arkaoda - Berlin, DE
11th Oct: Bar Neun Berlin
17th Oct: Syphen at Corsica Studios 
19th Oct: Doyenne x Completedworks at Frieze London 
28th Oct: Duo w/ Kenichi Iwasa - Forestlimit Tokyo
1st Nov: SOUP Ochiai - Tokyo
18th Nov: A Sala Lisa, Lisbon
27th Nov: x Nocturn, London
29th Nov: Year Zero, Istanbul 

Past - 2025:
15.03: EXIT - Glasgow, UK
19.03: fabric - London, UK
23.03: Avalon Cafe - London
29.03: SOUP Ochiai * - Tokyo, JP
30.03: Bapple - Kobe, JP
1.04: DNA Paradise - Kyoto, JP
5.04: Tobira Records *, Hyogo, JP
29.04: Doyenne @ Cafe OTO 
03.05: Spiral House at Barbican
8.05: Helsinki Music Week x Club Kaiku 
22.05: La Voce @ Triennale Milan 
28.05: Club Mesma - Paris 
20.06: Cafe OTO w/ Claire Rousay 
03.08: NERO Editions x 44Moen - Copenhagen, DK
26.08: PORT Osaka, JP
30.08: Art Center NEW, Yokohama, JP
06.09: Soje Artsite, Daejeon, KR
12.09: Paris Electronic Week, FR
25.09: Fuxia 2, Malmö, SE

07.04: BRDCST Festival - Brussels, Belgium
11.04: Museo Hermann Nitsch - Naples 
26.04: V&A Museum, London
8.05: Vanessa Bedoret LP launch - SJQ, London
17.05: Bari, Italy
18.05: Hangar - Barcelona, Spain
22.05: Cave12 w/ Okkyung Lee - Geneva, Switzerland 
25.05: Rovereto Festival, IT
30.05: Up To Date Festival - Warsaw, PL
11.07: Saigon, Athens
19.07: Seraph at Ormside
25.07: w/ Richie Culver / Damsel Elysium - Doyenne at Camden Art Centre 
16.08: Piedicavallo Festival, IT
4.09: w/ CS & Kreme - DJ set, Kings Place
5.09: Ormside x Doyenne, London
18.09: WP8 - Dusseldorf, DE
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01.10: 2220 Arts + Archives - Los Angeles, US
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01.11: Fountains - Vancouver, CA
06.11: Standard Time - Toronto, CA
08.11: The Lot Radio / Dear Friend, NY
16.11: Bristol En Masse Festival, UK
14.12: Current Plans Gallery, Hong Kong
17.12: Spread, Tokyo, JP
18.12: Hven, Tokyo
27.12: Forestlimit, Tokyo

2023:
29.09: w/ Sarah Davachi, Madrid, ES
7.10: w/ Abdullah Miniawy, Cologne, DE 
13.10: Ignota at St James, London  
15.10: DAVE Festival, Dresden, DE 
8.11: Cosmos Lisbon 
16.11: Ormside w/ Maxwell Sterling, Nexcyia
17.11: Full of Lava Festival, Bern, CH 
25.11: Psychic Liberation @ Roter Salon, Berlin
2.12: Klang - Rome, IT
6.12: Scratchproof Orchestra w/ H for Spirit & Visio, London
16.02: w/ Skee Mask, Oslo, NO
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6.04: Subbacultcha at Tempel, Amsterdam, NL
19.05: w/ Kassem Mosse, curated by Nabihah Iqbal - Brighton Festival 
11.22: Drifts Festival, Helsinki
7.04: FWD>> at Printworks, London
15.04: INA GRM Paris, FR
17.08: The ICA, London 
8.09: Corsica Studios, London
14.09: LYL Festival, Brussels 

-Psychic Liberation x Herrensauna, RSO Berlin
-Creamcake 3HD @ Trauma, Berlin
-Hydra x Printworks, London
-Cakeshop, Seoul 
-MMCA, Seoul 
-Fono, Kuala Lumpur 
-Club Night Club, New York
-Beyeler Fondation Basel, Switzerland
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-Conflux Festival 2022, Rotterdam
-Fiber Festival 2022, Amsterdam
-Punktum + Fuchs2 Prague
-Flat Time House w/ Mark Leckey, Silvia Kastel
-Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt
-Invisible Wind Factory w/ Gaika, Nazar, Liverpool 
-Unsound 2021, Krakow, PL
-Boiler Room Festival 2021 w/ Weirdcore, London
-Terraforma at MACRO w/ Terre Thaemlitz, Rome IT
-Semibreve Festival 2021, PT

Shelter Press x GRM Portraits: https://portraitsgrm.bandcamp.com/track/trigram-for-earth-3 from INA GRM, Paris Residency 2022

LYL Residency: https://lyl.live/show/minor-deity 

'Holy Palm' LP (2020) on Modern Love: https://florayinwong.bandcamp.com/album/holy-palm-2

Liturgy - PAN x Primary Information: https://p-a-n.org/product/flora-yin-wong-liturgy

'Lugere' on PAN - 2xLP 'mono no aware' (PAN 77) @pan_hq: https://p-a-n.bandcamp.com/album/v-a-mono-no-aware

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