Asian Arts Initiative – SOUND TYPE Music Festival & Writers Residency – Seminar with GENG PTP aka KING VISION ULTRA & John Morrison

SOUND TYPE Seminar:
GENG PTP aka KING VISION ULTRA & John Morrison
Tuesday, July 2, 4:00–5:30PM

Join us in this third SOUND TYPE Seminar, which brings into conversation
experimental hip hop artist GENG PTP aka KING VISION ULTRA and writer and DJ
John Morrison. Geng and Morrison will be talking about cultural history, musical
identity and imagining a cooperative model of artistic production and critique.

John Morrison is a writer, DJ, and sample-flipper from Philadelphia. His work has
appeared in NPR Music, Spin Magazine, The Wire and more. He is also the host of
Culture Cypher Radio, a hip-hop radio show on NPR affiliate station WXPN.
GENG PTP is a Manhattan-born, Queens NYC-based sound practitioner (producer,
poet/vocalist, mix engineer, DJ), educator, archivist, visual designer, organizer, and
physical trainer. With 3+ decades of participatory roots in NYC’s underground
music/DIY communities, he has been making work through a multitude of solo and
collaborative processes. Most currently, he performs as KING VISION ULTRA (est.
2017), a multimedia project considering memory and voice as quantum weaponry in
relation to honoring/making/taking space, sampling from the archive
(recall/remembrance), and spirit channeling. In January 2023, he released his
fourth album as KVU, ‘SHOOK WORLD,’ featuring 16 collaborators + Algiers
(Atlanta, GA). He also makes up half of Centenny Gzzz, a duo with Dreamcrusher.
GENG’s organizing and coalition work expands to the visionary collective and label,
PTP (Protect The Peace / Purple Tape Pedigree), which he established in 2009.
PTP operates in spaces as “counter-industrial purveyors of weaponized media.”