PEACE WONG 王和平 : 怪咖啡因 blame it on the caffeine

'“Can I perform my poetry for you? In tapes?”​
My distorted poetry.

blame it on the caffeine is a sonic reimagining of 15 poems from the artist’s debut poetry collection, It’s the caffeine dancing. a series of recitations exploring multivocality – driven by a primitive urge to speak, to utter, to home, to co-exist with languages, and to be with oneself, here and now.

across 14 tracks, poet/ sound-sculptor Peace Wong drifts between spoken-word electronica, trip-hop, queer folk, musique concrète, sapphic pop, slowcore, and ambient music. it is a narrative space opened by poetry and collided into sound. her voice slips between Cantonese, Mandarin, and English in a temporal disarray — flickering between intimate language and defamiliarized syllables. the album bursts with a string of dog barks and ends with lo-fi piano playing in a café. some rhythms are essentially bright, others unapologetically hesitant. these are poems that speak, poems that accidentally hum, poems that interrupt, poems that desperately knock, knock, knock..

an experimental audio-book. an interplay of sound, words and syllables.

a piece of music (or no).'


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王和平 Peace Wong

​Peace Wong 王和平 (b. 1991) is a poet, writer, and sound sculptor based in Taiwan. Born in Hong Kong, her creative practice moves fluidly across poetry, fiction, and sound.
Her literary works include the short story collection 色情白噪音 that’s the hormones speaking and the poetry collection 過動公寓 It’s the caffeine dancing. In sound, her debut concept album 路人崇拜 about a stalker was released in 2018 via Day’s Eye Records.
Her latest release, the spoken-word electronica poetry album 怪咖啡因 blame it on the caffeine, was published under her independent label so queer records. The album is a sonic reimagining of her debut poetry collection and continues her exploration of hybridity, voice, and the politics of voicing.
Wong is the recipient of the Zhou Mengdie Poetry Award, the Openbook Annual Award for Best Chinese Fiction, and the Houshan Literature New Writer Award. In 2024, Wen-hsun literary magazine named her one of the ten most anticipated post-90s writers in Taiwan.
She holds an MFA in Sinophone Literatures (Creative Writing) from National Dong Hwa University and is currently pursuing a PhD in Musicology at National Taiwan University.
peace-wong.com


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