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Featuring a “Side A” and “Side B”, records adopts the dialectic built-in to the vinyl as it presents two projects in parallel: Side A: Experimental Sound: Asia and Side B: Rutherford Chang, We Buy White Albums (2006–2025).

SIDE A
Experimental Sound: Asia

Experimental sound across Asia encompasses vast, diverse, and interconnected histories that resist categorisation. To begin a survey of these sonic experiments, we invited twelve selectors from Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Bangkok to share a list of vinyls, cassettes, and CDs that have been significant to their own work as artists, listeners, collectors, and audiophiles. These recordings are available for the audience to browse, as they are invited to discover sounds that proliferated cultural discourse in the latter half of the 20th century.

SIDE B
Rutherford Chang, We Buy White Albums (2006–2025)

For almost twenty years, Rutherford Chang (1979–2025) sought out and collected as many first-pressing vinyl copies of The Beatles (1968)—universally known as the White Album—as he could find. The resulting project, We Buy White Albums (2006–2025), became one of the most ambitious and compelling conceptual works of recent decades, resonating with Minimal Art, Conceptual Art, and New Music.

Like the two sides of a vinyl, the two presentations are distinct yet interconnected, each inflecting the other, while forming a resonant, interconnected whole.