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Tran Uy Duc Trần Uy Đức | |
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| Birth name | Uy-Đức Trần |
| Born | November 10, 2003 Hanoi, Vietnam |
| Genres | deconstructed club, epic collage, avant-garde, alternative pop, art-pop, noise, free improvisation |
| Occupation(s) | musician, songwriter, vocalist, producer, engineer, director, video artist |
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| Website | tranuyduc |
Trần Uy Đức (born 2003) is a Vietnamese interdisciplinary artist and experimental musician based in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Early life
[edit]Đức grew up in an artistic family (his father is a sculptor) but received no formal musical training.[1] He is largely self-taught and began exploring music around 2018, when he encountered the city’s experimental music scene (meeting performer Lý Trang.)[2][1] According to an interview, he attended university and during that time wrote his first mixtape on his first personal laptop[3]. Throughout his youth he studied languages and art texts (with encouragement from his father), which “led him into aesthetics and performance without formal training.”[2][4]
Career
[edit]2018–2021: Vietnam’s experimental scene and Came
[edit]Uy Đức first drew local attention with Knot Enough, an experimental short film made in 2018 which premiered at a Vietnamese exhibition on women’s rights in late 2019.[4][5] Around the same time he released his debut album 100 BROKEN DREAMS, a largely self-produced collection of short collages that led to recognition by Vietnam’s experimental music community.[4] Released at the end of his high-school and during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021’s Came featured contributions from members of Mona Evie (Hanoi) and Rắn Cạp Đuôi (Ho Chi Minh city), and received positive reception abroad.[4]
2022–2023: First gigs, music video Catwalk and compilations
[edit]Moving for university in Ho Chi Minh city, Uy Đức begun to perform improvisation-heavy live sets with Rắn Cạp Đuôi, featuring raw, present instrumentation and physical stage movement.[6][7][8] He had several solo performance at queer events[9] in the city, and issued So Original – Live (April 2022). Bandcamp listed So Original – Live among its “Best Club Music” of early 2023, describing Uy Đức as “one of the most exciting collagists in experimental music” with a knack for “barely contained montages and bitcrushed live recordings.”[10] He continued to direct further music videos and art films for his album and self-titled mixtape, made him also visible as an experimental filmmaker with an YouTube channel. 2022's Catwalk was his first budgeted music video production and received critical attention following its screening at the Saigon Experimental Film Festival in Peckham, London. Fetch London described the work as existing “between high and low, polished and amateurish,” noting its hybrid aesthetic and collage structure.[11]
In August 2023, Uy Đức released a self-titled compilation cassette through the Hamburg-based label dispari. He explained that the project originated from early demos written during his university years. The compilation was developed in collaboration with DJ and curator Phương-Đan. Uy Đức described the compilation as a closing chapter on his boyhood.[3]
2024–present
[edit]In early 2024, Uy Đức was selected as an artist-in-residence for Fabrica’s Spring–Summer 'Kinship' program in Treviso, Italy.[12] This stint marked his first engagement abroad and directly informed the development of Bandcamp releases It Whims, Bird-Head (released in 2025) and YouTube-based collection of music videos Shot in... V Magazine described his appearance at the residency’s anniversary festival as featuring “mesmerizing electronic compositions.”[13] In mid-2024 he supported Rắn Cạp Đuôi for their second European tour.[14] September 2024, Trần Uy Đức performed live with Rắn Cạp Đuôi at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul.[15] In April 2025 he made his United Kingdom debut at the Counterflows festival in Glasgow. His performance there, featuring physical stage movement and interval supports from Cove Park co-residents from the previous week, highlighted by The Skinny as an dynamic-bending half-hour of the festival.[16][17]
Artistry
[edit]Musical style
[edit]While acknowledging labels like ‘deconstructed club’ and ‘epic collage,’ Uy Đức emphasizes that his music functions solely as a diary.[18][19] Bandcamp Daily noted his “exceptional ear for hooks” amid these abrasive collages, while Wire journalist Daryl Worthington likened his vocal delivery to voice notes—“not meant for public consumption yet charged with the confidence and energy to make a club sway.”[10][18] In an April 2022 scene report for Bandcamp, Đức affirmed: “‘Decolonize!’ is very much my music.”[20]
Inspiration
[edit]Uy Đức's work eclectically moves between genres (electronic, pop, noise, folk) and mediums (sound, video, performance). Earliest artistic sparks came from watching the performance works of Marina Abramović.[21] Sophomore album Came drew from war remembrance, and industrial pop structures found in the work of Bjork, Arca, Mica Levi.[22][23] He has discussed cultural differences in regional scenes – noting that Hanoi, his hometown, as having an “introverted and serious” artistic atmosphere, in contrast with Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), which he characterized as “fluid and consuming.”[24] While attending a residency in Italy, he referred to its creative context as “suppressed and filtered.”[18] These contrasting conditions have informed the tensions in his work.[18][23]
International and local reception
[edit]Pitchfork describes Came as a “collection of contradictions: greyscale and prismatic, deadening and exuberant, baleful and inviting.”[1] Hanoi Grapevine observes that his debut album 100 BROKEN DREAMS was oriented toward art-pop, and in general his audio-visual works emphasize free expression and abstract explorations of hidden identity in the digital age.[25] Visual artist Rosanna Graf (his collaborator on a 2024 video) found his music “intimate, playful, and experimental, almost naïve,” with a unique blend of intimacy and volatility that “doesn’t follow the rules.”[3]
In January 2022, following the publication of Pitchfork’s review of Came, several Vietnamese media outlets reported that Trần Uy Đức was the first solo Vietnamese artist to be covered by the magazine, often drawing ironic comparisons to international mainstream pop figures.[26][27][28]
Community
[edit]In September 2020, Trần Uy Đức had his first public musical in Hanoi, alongside Japanese instrumentalist Junichi Usui.[29] January 2021, he contributed production to Mona Evie’s debut single T0M13 as a friend who helped with the band's initiation.[30] Thereafter, he had been a peripheral member of rave collective Nhạc Gãy and experimental band Rắn Cạp Đuôi.[8][30][31]
At the dispari's tape launch in Hanoi in 2023, he shared stage with students from Vietnam University of Fine Arts.[32] In 2024 he collaborated with Berlin-based artist Rosanna Graf on a music video project: they created a music video using four tracks from his self-titled compilation cassette.[3]
Đức founded cultural platform hanoi bedroom shows in 2023, focused on open-ended themes (e.g. “Petro,” “Fuchsia”).[18][33][34] and has been co-curating collective events alongside singer Vũ Hà Anh, sound artist Lý Trang and installation artist Đặng Thùy Anh.[35]
Discography
[edit]Musical releases
[edit]| Title | Type | Label | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 100 BROKEN DREAMS | Debut album | self-release | February 2020 |
| Came | Sophomore album | - | December 2021 |
| So Original – Live | Compilation | - | February 2023 |
| Trần Uy Đức (s/t Compilation) | Compilation (with Cassette) | dispari | August 2023 |
| It Will Shine | EP | hanoi bedroom shows | December 2023 |
| It Whims | EP/Mixtape | self-release | August 2024 |
| Bird-Head | Compilation | - | February 2025 |
Digital video collections
[edit]| Title | Year | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Tran Uy Duc – Came | 2021-2022 | Playlist (YouTube) |
| Catwalk – Cuts | 2022 | - |
| Trần Uy Đức – s/t compilation | 2022-2023 | - |
| Tribalica11 – Cuts | 2023 | - |
| Shot in... | 2024-present | - |
| Bird-Head | 2025 | "video" (Bandcamp) |
Song appearances
[edit]| Track/Project | Type | Label/Collaborator | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| T0M13 | Vocalist, Producer | Mona Evie | 2021 |
| Nhạc Gãy Tổng Hợp Số 1 | Contributor | Nhạc Gãy | 2021 |
| Tempentary Dance Versions | Contributor | Cloud Management | 2024 |
| *1 | Vocalist | Rắn Cạp Đuôi | 2023 |
| Hanoi Children's Palace: Nostalgia for the Future - Songs for the Ballet-Practice Room | Contributor | hanoi bedroom shows | 2024 |
| LOVE AMPULE: The Remixes | Remixed Track | Vũ Hà Anh | 2024 |
References
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- ^ a b "Tran Uy Duc biography". Last.fm. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ a b c d "Rosanna Graf & Trần Uy Đức – I heard Tribalica 11 First, then it got more playful And More Clean". thecouch.hethem.nl. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ a b c d Thuận, Lê Quan (2022-07-19). "Trần Uy Đức - 'Mình trưởng thành từ thực hành âm nhạc thể nghiệm'". iDesign (in Vietnamese). Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ https://hanoigrapevine.com/vi/2024/05/finest-artists-2024-tran-uy-duc/phim-nghe-thuat-dau-tay-knot-enough-cua-tran-uy-duc/
- ^ Boiler Room (2022-05-25). Rắn Cạp Đuôi | Boiler Room Sài Gòn: Gãy. Retrieved 2025-04-30 – via YouTube.
- ^ "Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective's Only Rule in Music Is Having No Rule | Saigoneer". saigoneer.com. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ a b Gui, James. "Unlimited Editions: Nhạc Gãy - The Wire". The Wire Magazine - Adventures In Modern Music. Retrieved 2025-05-01.
- ^ https://hanoigrapevine.com/vi/2024/05/finest-artists-2024-tran-uy-duc/live-listening-1-at-gai-nhay/
- ^ a b "The Best Club Music on Bandcamp: January/February 2023". Bandcamp Daily. 2023-02-28. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ Houghton-Boyle, Agnès (2024-08-26). "VIETNAM'S AVANT-GARDE CINEMA SHINES AT THE SAIGON EXPERIMENTAL FILM FESTIVAL". Fetch London. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ "Kinship program - e-flux Education". e-flux. Retrieved 2025-04-30.
- ^ "Fabrica Celebrates 30 Years of Creativity with Spectacular Festival". V Magazine. 2024-07-25. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
- ^ unARTigNYC (2024-06-27). Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective live at La Station Gare des Mines Paris 2024. Retrieved 2025-04-30 – via YouTube.
- ^ 리움미술관 (2025-01-09). 란 캅 두오이(Rắn Cạp Đuôi ft. Tran Uy Duc) | 《드림 스크린》 | 전시 연계 사운드 공연. Retrieved 2025-05-02 – via YouTube.
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