03/04/25 GUESTS 203 – Cold Dream
Cold Dream (Menghan Wang) is an interdisciplinary sound artist and independent curator.
This episode is a composed collection of recordings spanning 2018 through 2025 from her solo live performances and collaborative installations with other artists including Muyao Zhang and Queens (Scott Mou). A broad spectrum of qualities found in ambient, noise, drone, and industrial are utilized—textures and frequencies clash and harmonize to create dynamic, weather-like atmospheres that express the gently chaotic forces that surround the listeners while also carrying remnants of distant emotion and memories.
Cold Dream holds a Master of Arts degree in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts from the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK), and has presented her work at various institutions, festivals, and through labels and platforms including Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum Project in Shanghai, Goethe-Institut Beijing, Climate Care Festival Berlin, Baihui Radio, Sinotronics, Prajnasonic, Lime Lodge, and Sturmundrang.
Traclist:
Untitled (composition for installation One Man Space [2018] by Muyao Zhang & Nikita Marykov)
Dormant (composition for Muyao Zhang and Disturbing the Peace [2024] — installation in collaboration with Queens)
Erupt (feat. Queens) (composition for Disturbing the Peace [2024] — installation in collaboration with Queens)
Submerge / Araki’s Flowers (2021)
SR denouement (A section of composition for Silver Ripples [2022] — sound Installation across 7 locations in Berlin, Germany)
Untitled (recording of live act at Sturmundrang #2, Arkaoda Berlin, 2022)
Inverse (recording of audio-visual live performance Inverse [2020] at SoundsAbout Gallery Berlin)
化 Change (2018)
Pre Cocoon (A section of composition for Pre Cocoon [2023] — spatial sound and architectural installation in Otis Mountain)
