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TONIGHT: CHINABOT PRESENTS KASAI + NEO GEODESIA + ORIENTAL MELON + HWXXNG

Chinabot return to OTO with KASAI, Neo Geodesia, Oriental Melon and HWXXNG - a line-up moving through Japan, South Korea, France and the UK, gathered by a platform that has been changing the dialogue around Asian music since 2017.

Chiba-born, Kyoto-based KASAI works between ancient folk styles and contemporary electronic forms, pulling traditional materials towards footwork, juke and high-velocity club structures without flattening either side. NEO GEODESIA approaches electronic music through unstable textures, digital processing and fractured sonic environments, while ORIENTAL MELON’s audiovisual practice opens out from Berlin and South Korea through electronics, image, performance and club-adjacent experimentation.

HWXXNG folds DJ and production work into the line-up, joining a night that moves between folk memory, digital audiovisual work, experimental electronics, footwork, juke and signal-heavy sounds.

Chinabot has become one of the most vital platforms for artists reworking assumptions around Asian music, not as a single sound or genre, but as a field of artists, labels, histories and practices pushing in multiple directions at once.

🎟 Tickets via link in stories and cafeoto.co.uk

→ Doors 7:30pm

The crew is in town! @ChinabotAsia brings you an awesome full on night of  incredible performances from Japanese folk experimentalist @__K_A_S_A_I__ [his DEBUT UK SHOW YOU GUYS!! BIG DEAL! Have we said that already!? Errrr], DJ, producer and reimangin-er of sounds HWXXXNG @jaeho111111 from Seoul; and digital audio-visual artist duo @ORIENTAL.MELON.

COME!

THURSDAY 21 MAY 2026 | 7PM | Advance: £9-£12 / On The Door: £15
>>> find tickets in the LIB + stories + website || more on the door! <<<

The crew is in town! @ChinabotAsia brings you an awesome full on night of  incredible performances from Japanese folk experimentalist @__K_A_S_A_I__ [his DEBUT UK SHOW YOU GUYS!! BIG DEAL! Have we said that already!? Errrr], DJ, producer and reimangin-er of sounds HWXXXNG @jaeho111111 from Seoul; and digital audio-visual artist duo @ORIENTAL.MELON.

COME!

THURSDAY 21 MAY 2026 | 7PM | Advance: £9-£12 / On The Door: £15
>>> find tickets in the LIB + stories + website || more on the door! <<<

The crew is in town! @ChinabotAsia brings you an awesome full on night of  incredible performances from Japanese folk experimentalist @__K_A_S_A_I__ [his DEBUT UK SHOW YOU GUYS!! BIG DEAL! Have we said that already!? Errrr], DJ, producer and reimangin-er of sounds HWXXXNG @jaeho111111 from Seoul; and digital audio-visual artist duo @ORIENTAL.MELON.

COME!

THURSDAY 21 MAY 2026 | 7PM | Advance: £9-£12 / On The Door: £15
>>> find tickets in the LIB + stories + website || more on the door! <<<

The crew is in town! @ChinabotAsia brings you an awesome full on night of  incredible performances from Japanese folk experimentalist @__K_A_S_A_I__ [his DEBUT UK SHOW YOU GUYS!! BIG DEAL! Have we said that already!? Errrr], DJ, producer and reimangin-er of sounds HWXXXNG @jaeho111111 from Seoul; and digital audio-visual artist duo @ORIENTAL.MELON.

COME!

THURSDAY 21 MAY 2026 | 7PM | Advance: £9-£12 / On The Door: £15
>>> find tickets in the LIB + stories + website || more on the door! <<<

Upcoming events

— 21 May, Brighton — The Rose Hill
— 22 May, London — Café OTO

Video clip - performance at @wesa.seoul festival

🟡 𝘾𝙃𝙄𝙉𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙏 𝙎𝙋𝙊𝙏𝙇𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏 ∆ Oriental Melon 🟡 swipe for 📽️

@Oriental.Melon is a digital audio-visual artist duo composed of Jaeho Hwang and Sena Oh from South Korea, based in Berlin. Their work fuses traditional and contemporary elements, exploring the intersection of Eastern philosophy and digital culture. By navigating the complexities of cultural identity, they act as a bridge between traditional practices and innovative digital expressions, fostering dialogue that deepens appreciation for both realms.

Sena Oh is a Korea-born, Berlin-based visual explorer. Her creative approach is fueled by a deep fascination with immersive digital experiences and their underlying processes. She focuses on re-examining mixed and overused digital interfaces and media, experiencing and resolving distortions that arise from digital convergence and media interactions. Through this process, she weaves stories with a pataphysical perspective, blurring the boundaries between reality and unreality, logic and illogic, and Eastern and Western cultures. Additionally, she is part of the electronic music label “Hundertrecord” as a visual artist.

Jaeho Hwang (aka HWXXNG and also performing on the night)is a Berlin-based DJ and producer from South Korea whose practice explores sound as a site of cultural memory, identity, and futurism. Defining his work as Asian-Core / K-Core, he merges industrial club music with traditional Korean instrumentation, ritual chants, and East Asian sonic archives.

𝘾𝙃𝙄𝙉𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙏 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨: 𝙆𝘼𝙎𝘼𝙄 + 𝙃𝙒𝙓𝙓𝙉𝙂 + 𝙊𝙍𝙄𝙀𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙇 𝙈𝙀𝙇𝙊𝙉 
Thursday 21 May 2026 | 7pm | Advance: £9-£12 / On The Door: £15
>>> tickets in the LIB + stories + website <<<

@jaeho111111
@__k_a_s_a_i__

🟡 𝘾𝙃𝙄𝙉𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙏 𝙎𝙋𝙊𝙏𝙇𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏 ∆ Oriental Melon 🟡 swipe for 📽️

@Oriental.Melon is a digital audio-visual artist duo composed of Jaeho Hwang and Sena Oh from South Korea, based in Berlin. Their work fuses traditional and contemporary elements, exploring the intersection of Eastern philosophy and digital culture. By navigating the complexities of cultural identity, they act as a bridge between traditional practices and innovative digital expressions, fostering dialogue that deepens appreciation for both realms.

Sena Oh is a Korea-born, Berlin-based visual explorer. Her creative approach is fueled by a deep fascination with immersive digital experiences and their underlying processes. She focuses on re-examining mixed and overused digital interfaces and media, experiencing and resolving distortions that arise from digital convergence and media interactions. Through this process, she weaves stories with a pataphysical perspective, blurring the boundaries between reality and unreality, logic and illogic, and Eastern and Western cultures. Additionally, she is part of the electronic music label “Hundertrecord” as a visual artist.

Jaeho Hwang (aka HWXXNG and also performing on the night)is a Berlin-based DJ and producer from South Korea whose practice explores sound as a site of cultural memory, identity, and futurism. Defining his work as Asian-Core / K-Core, he merges industrial club music with traditional Korean instrumentation, ritual chants, and East Asian sonic archives.

𝘾𝙃𝙄𝙉𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙏 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨: 𝙆𝘼𝙎𝘼𝙄 + 𝙃𝙒𝙓𝙓𝙉𝙂 + 𝙊𝙍𝙄𝙀𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙇 𝙈𝙀𝙇𝙊𝙉 
Thursday 21 May 2026 | 7pm | Advance: £9-£12 / On The Door: £15
>>> tickets in the LIB + stories + website <<<

@jaeho111111
@__k_a_s_a_i__

🟡 𝘾𝙃𝙄𝙉𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙏 𝙎𝙋𝙊𝙏𝙇𝙄𝙂𝙃𝙏 ∆ Oriental Melon 🟡 swipe for 📽️

@Oriental.Melon is a digital audio-visual artist duo composed of Jaeho Hwang and Sena Oh from South Korea, based in Berlin. Their work fuses traditional and contemporary elements, exploring the intersection of Eastern philosophy and digital culture. By navigating the complexities of cultural identity, they act as a bridge between traditional practices and innovative digital expressions, fostering dialogue that deepens appreciation for both realms.

Sena Oh is a Korea-born, Berlin-based visual explorer. Her creative approach is fueled by a deep fascination with immersive digital experiences and their underlying processes. She focuses on re-examining mixed and overused digital interfaces and media, experiencing and resolving distortions that arise from digital convergence and media interactions. Through this process, she weaves stories with a pataphysical perspective, blurring the boundaries between reality and unreality, logic and illogic, and Eastern and Western cultures. Additionally, she is part of the electronic music label “Hundertrecord” as a visual artist.

Jaeho Hwang (aka HWXXNG and also performing on the night)is a Berlin-based DJ and producer from South Korea whose practice explores sound as a site of cultural memory, identity, and futurism. Defining his work as Asian-Core / K-Core, he merges industrial club music with traditional Korean instrumentation, ritual chants, and East Asian sonic archives.

𝘾𝙃𝙄𝙉𝘼𝘽𝙊𝙏 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨: 𝙆𝘼𝙎𝘼𝙄 + 𝙃𝙒𝙓𝙓𝙉𝙂 + 𝙊𝙍𝙄𝙀𝙉𝙏𝘼𝙇 𝙈𝙀𝙇𝙊𝙉 
Thursday 21 May 2026 | 7pm | Advance: £9-£12 / On The Door: £15
>>> tickets in the LIB + stories + website <<<

@jaeho111111
@__k_a_s_a_i__

Upcoming events
— 21 May, Brighton — The Rose Hill @the_rose_hill
— 22 May, London — Café OTO @cafeotodalston

Video clip — performance at @wesa.seoul Festival

Happy New Year everyone!

We’re very excited to announce this new lineup at @cafeotodalston !

21.05.26

✸ KASAI
✸ ORIENTAL MELON @oriental.melon (@sena_0h + @jaeho111111)
✸ HWXXNG @jaeho111111
✸ NEO GEODESIA @neogeodesia

Tickets on sale now: www.cafeoto.co.uk

@wesa.seoul Festival 2025 / at @thila.seoul

시간내어 와주신 모든 분들 감사합니다

@wesa.seoul Festival 2025 / at @thila.seoul

시간내어 와주신 모든 분들 감사합니다

@wesa.seoul Festival 2025 / at @thila.seoul

시간내어 와주신 모든 분들 감사합니다

@wesa.seoul Festival 2025 / at @thila.seoul

시간내어 와주신 모든 분들 감사합니다

@wesa.seoul Festival 2025 / at @thila.seoul

시간내어 와주신 모든 분들 감사합니다

@wesa.seoul Festival 2025 / at @thila.seoul

시간내어 와주신 모든 분들 감사합니다

@wesa.seoul Festival 2025 / at @thila.seoul

시간내어 와주신 모든 분들 감사합니다

Seoul! 서울에서 공연합니다.
We’re performing at WeSA Festival 2025, the only sound- and audiovisual-focused festival in Korea where art and technology intersect.

Dates: December 12 – 14, 2025
Venue: THILA Ground (2 Tojeong-ro 9-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul)
Ticket: @wesa.seoulbio Link

[Line-Up]
Day 1: Oriental Melon, DNS & Rustyhead, Douglas McCasuland, Pasuth
Day 2: NowTone, Chantal Michelle, Simone Bosco, ITSU & ARS
Day 3: Roberto Maqueda, Edmar Soria, Annabelle Playe & Marc Siffert, Kim ba-ul & Tohal Kyna

Seoul! 서울에서 공연합니다.
We’re performing at WeSA Festival 2025, the only sound- and audiovisual-focused festival in Korea where art and technology intersect.

Dates: December 12 – 14, 2025
Venue: THILA Ground (2 Tojeong-ro 9-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul)
Ticket: @wesa.seoulbio Link

[Line-Up]
Day 1: Oriental Melon, DNS & Rustyhead, Douglas McCasuland, Pasuth
Day 2: NowTone, Chantal Michelle, Simone Bosco, ITSU & ARS
Day 3: Roberto Maqueda, Edmar Soria, Annabelle Playe & Marc Siffert, Kim ba-ul & Tohal Kyna

Seoul! 서울에서 공연합니다.
We’re performing at WeSA Festival 2025, the only sound- and audiovisual-focused festival in Korea where art and technology intersect.

Dates: December 12 – 14, 2025
Venue: THILA Ground (2 Tojeong-ro 9-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul)
Ticket: @wesa.seoulbio Link

[Line-Up]
Day 1: Oriental Melon, DNS & Rustyhead, Douglas McCasuland, Pasuth
Day 2: NowTone, Chantal Michelle, Simone Bosco, ITSU & ARS
Day 3: Roberto Maqueda, Edmar Soria, Annabelle Playe & Marc Siffert, Kim ba-ul & Tohal Kyna

⚡Tradition Transformed Through Tech ⚡

We’re honoured to be part of Peckham Digital 2025 with live audiovisual work Sangyeo – Digital Metempsychosis. ✨

This 35-minute performance reinterprets Korean traditional funeral rituals through a contemporary digital lens. Blending Sangyeo-sori (funeral chants) with game-inspired soundscapes, AI-generated visuals, and drone choreography, the piece imagines a speculative posthumous journey of the soul in the digital realm.

By merging sacred ritual with new technologies, Oriental Melon explore themes of afterlife, automation, and transformed tradition, offering a powerful, diasporic vision of Asian future aesthetics. 🌌⚡

Composed of South Korean artists Jaeho Hwang and Sena Oh, Oriental Melon are a Berlin-based duo creating hybrid audiovisual works that reimagine cultural heritage through digital media.

Let’s close out Peckham Digital 2025 together with this unique performance. 💫

🗓 Sunday 19 October, 8:00–8:35pm
📍 Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN
🎟 Free booking via link in bio
For more info- @peckhamdigital

#PeckhamDigital #PerformanceArt #AudiovisualArt #KoreanArt #DigitalRituals#AIArt #NewMediaArt #londonevents

⚡Tradition Transformed Through Tech ⚡

We’re honoured to be part of Peckham Digital 2025 with live audiovisual work Sangyeo – Digital Metempsychosis. ✨

This 35-minute performance reinterprets Korean traditional funeral rituals through a contemporary digital lens. Blending Sangyeo-sori (funeral chants) with game-inspired soundscapes, AI-generated visuals, and drone choreography, the piece imagines a speculative posthumous journey of the soul in the digital realm.

By merging sacred ritual with new technologies, Oriental Melon explore themes of afterlife, automation, and transformed tradition, offering a powerful, diasporic vision of Asian future aesthetics. 🌌⚡

Composed of South Korean artists Jaeho Hwang and Sena Oh, Oriental Melon are a Berlin-based duo creating hybrid audiovisual works that reimagine cultural heritage through digital media.

Let’s close out Peckham Digital 2025 together with this unique performance. 💫

🗓 Sunday 19 October, 8:00–8:35pm
📍 Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN
🎟 Free booking via link in bio
For more info- @peckhamdigital

#PeckhamDigital #PerformanceArt #AudiovisualArt #KoreanArt #DigitalRituals#AIArt #NewMediaArt #londonevents

⚡Tradition Transformed Through Tech ⚡

We’re honoured to be part of Peckham Digital 2025 with live audiovisual work Sangyeo – Digital Metempsychosis. ✨

This 35-minute performance reinterprets Korean traditional funeral rituals through a contemporary digital lens. Blending Sangyeo-sori (funeral chants) with game-inspired soundscapes, AI-generated visuals, and drone choreography, the piece imagines a speculative posthumous journey of the soul in the digital realm.

By merging sacred ritual with new technologies, Oriental Melon explore themes of afterlife, automation, and transformed tradition, offering a powerful, diasporic vision of Asian future aesthetics. 🌌⚡

Composed of South Korean artists Jaeho Hwang and Sena Oh, Oriental Melon are a Berlin-based duo creating hybrid audiovisual works that reimagine cultural heritage through digital media.

Let’s close out Peckham Digital 2025 together with this unique performance. 💫

🗓 Sunday 19 October, 8:00–8:35pm
📍 Copeland Gallery, SE15 3SN
🎟 Free booking via link in bio
For more info- @peckhamdigital

#PeckhamDigital #PerformanceArt #AudiovisualArt #KoreanArt #DigitalRituals#AIArt #NewMediaArt #londonevents

Organised by @gentleleash , the performance at Golden pudel @pudel_com in Hamburg turned the club into a vibrant art event on Sunday night. Huge thanks to everyone who came out and supported!

📸 @qri.cho

Organised by @gentleleash , the performance at Golden pudel @pudel_com in Hamburg turned the club into a vibrant art event on Sunday night. Huge thanks to everyone who came out and supported!

📸 @qri.cho

GENTLE LEASH #7 • 03/08 • 21.00 • GOLDEN PUDEL

An evening of curated performances exploring the intersection of poetry, sound, and visuals:

@shileshan
@oriental.melon
@jaeho111111
@selfiegasm_
@_euroeyez_

@pudel_com

poster by @qri.cho

GENTLE LEASH #7 w/ 𝓞𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓸𝓷

03/08 • 21.00 • GOLDEN PUDEL

𝓞𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓜𝓮𝓵𝓸𝓷

“Oriental Melon” is a Berlin-based hybrid audiovisual artist duo from South Korea, composed of Jaeho Hwang and Sena Oh. We reinterpret traditional metaphors through a future-oriented lens, merging cultural heritage with digital media across sonic and visual platforms. Grounded in a diasporic perspective, our work experiments with futuristic narratives of East Asian identity and seeks to envision new aesthetics for an Asian future.

„<Sangyeo-Digital Metempsychosis>“ is a 35-40 minute live audiovisual performance that reinterprets Korean traditional funeral rituals through a contemporary digital framework, based on research into the evolving forms of conventional ceremonies.
We explore how rituals once regarded as solemn and sacred—such as funerals and memorial ceremonies—are becoming blurred and transformed in the context of the AI era and Industry 5.0.
The performance merges “Sangyeo-sori,” the traditional funeral chants sung during funeral processions, with game-inspired and digital soundscapes. Symbols of longevity and immortality from Korean traditional patterns are reimagined as AI-generated visual language and 3D digital models, depicting a speculative posthumous journey of the soul in the digital realm. The act of physically carrying the coffin—once performed communally—is replaced by drone operation, symbolising contemporary realities such as population decline, nuclear families, and increasing automation.
This multidisciplinary work experiments with how forgotten rituals might be revived within digital virtual spaces. Grounded in a diasporic perspective, it proposes a new vision of Asian future aesthetics. Through its layered composition of sound, drone movement, and digital visuals, the piece explores the concepts of “afterlife” and “transformed tradition” through a hybrid narrative structure.

@oriental.melon
@pudel_com