Born in Keriye, Uyghur region, in 1992, Erpan Hesher set up his first music ensemble in Beijing in 2008 and became their producer. Thereafter, he started working with musicians from many ethnic minority nationalities. In between 2009-2013 he had important role in the first ever underground electronic music movement in Urumchi and it became one of the most alive city with real underground electronic music scene within China.
During the same period, he joined a band called the "Nuclear Fusion G Band" and he participated as an electronic sampling artist. After graduating high school in 2012, he became a full-time independent musician. In 2013, he moved to Shanghai, where he formed an independent organization for artists known as the "Rock Family" alongside artists from the Aishan Rock ensemble. During this period, he organized more than a hundred different performances and art events with the “Rock Family” including highlight events such as the "ART MIX Festival" .
In 2014 he became the co-founder of a live Electronic DUO named "NONE SOUNDS", which wishes to make Uyghur contemporary music discovered throughout the world. In 2016, he moved to Tokyo to study sound design and modular synth technics in MI Tokyo. He ventured deeper into the realm of sound art and claimed himself as an independent sound artist under the name "Hesher." Soon after at the end of 2018, the restart of the project NONE SOUNDS brought him to Europe. In 2019, he moved to Serbia to start further developing "NONE SOUNDS" with his music partner Aishan. During times in Belgrade, he has worked with local artists and musicians such as “MKDSL” and “Filip Fisher” and has been a part of a project called “Ljubi Brt”. In 2020, Erpan moved to France to continue creative work and started a new page for his artistic research and career to push None Sounds and his career to another scale on the European stage.
Today, he has evolved into an Electronic Musician, Sound Artist as well as Music Producer active in all three facets. He works with artists from many different countries on various kinds of projects. Erpan yearns to expand his musical and artistic journey venture deeper into the free world and share his passion, enthusiasm, and artistic inspirations with audiences in venues and through educational initiatives. Since he settled in France, it has allowed him to develop a wide range of artistic collaborations with choreographers and dancers, poets, film and documentary makers, podcast producers, and fashion brands, and actors of historical and cultural places.
Résidency project:
The multidisciplinary project Cauchemar /Qoshmaq was born out of the meeting between two Uyghur artists who are refugees in France, Erpan Hesher (electronic musician) and Merdan Eheteli (poet), and their collaboration with a collective of artists and researchers in the humanities. Since 2021, they have been working with the Uyghur Institute of Europe (an NGO based in Paris that secured recognition of the Uyghur genocide by the French Parliament in January 2022) on artistic productions and performances that portray the psychological reality experienced by members of the Uyghur diaspora in France and Europe.
The residency will enable us to continue and finalise the writing of this performance, complete the composition and musical form corresponding to our project, and integrate visual material (videos and drawings).