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The Crocodile Presents: Otay:Onii w/ Fitness, CSTMR9/18 Doors 8:3021+$20/$22https://otayonii.bandcamp.com/album/dream-hackerOtay:onii (Lane Shi) is a multifaceted artist originally from Haining, China, currently based in NY. Her artistic practice spans across music, sound design, installation art, and film composition. She is the lead vocalist and keyboardist of the punk spit band Elizabeth Colour Wheel (US).Otays work has received recognition and accolades, including the bronze prize for Best Female Vocalist from Global Music Awards, and Best Sound from the Audiovisual Arts Industrial Incubator Awards. Her recent music video Un deciphered was an official selection at the Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival. Her installation performance piece Unwrap! debuted at the Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai in 2021, alongside a series of improvised sound pieces at Himalayas Museum, FanRong Museum, and more.Her critically claimed album NAG was released on ShadowTrash TapeGroup (US) in 2018, MngMng 冥冥 on WV Sorcerer Productions (France+China) in 2020, which was honored No.1 in RYM China session 2021, and her newest record Dream Hacker 夢之駭客, which was released on Bi records (China) in February 2023 and has received attention from press outlets such as Pitchfork (US), NPR (US), and The Threads Radio (UK).Onii left footprints in renowned institutions, venues and festivals such as Harvard University whrb 959fm in 2020 and Currents FM in 2021, SXSW US and Roadburn Festival (Netherlands) in 2023. Her written script for the self-produced music video Un deciphered was featured by Bi records, and under their curation, her ritual improvisation documentary across the Tibetan plateau was presented at Le Guess Who Cosmos Global in 2022.Her artistic practice is characterized by an experimental approach that defies genre boundaries, exploring electronic, ambient, sound collage, and noise, with the aim of breaking down the structures that limit creative expression and achieving a bodily connection through the synchronization of the heart and mind. She believes in echoes, and the potential of solving a puzzle with another puzzle that cant be seen, be touched, but to feel.My task is to solve a puzzle with another puzzle that cant be seen, be touched, but to feel.​