Alice Longyu Gao

Name: Alice Longyu Gao
Start: 2025-05-03T20:00:00-04:00
Location: SAW Centre

Schedule

Sat, 03 May, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

SAW Centre | Ottawa, ON

Alice Longyu Gao on-stage performing their most loved songs from their debut trilogy. Their debut trilogy includes 3 EPs: High Dragon Universe (2022), Let’s Hope Heteros Fail, Learn, and Retire (2023), and Assembling Symbols Into My Own Poetry (2024).
For Alice Longyu Gao, remaining indefinable has proven to be one of their most formidable strengths. As one of the unwitting pioneers of the hyperpop movement, Longyu Gao — often referred to as ALG by friends and fans — forged a path for themselves by channeling unfiltered humor and rage into their energetic early work. The multidisciplinary artist strives to open portals to their past, present and future through their work, a nonlinear journey reflected upon in their new mini-album, Assembling symbols into my own poetry, the final chapter in their debut trilogy.
Released October 23rd via ÂŁÏÇÉ THE ŁÄBĘŁ, Assembling takes the words that they’ve spent their entire career scrutinizing and throws them skyward, allowing vulnerability to take control. It’s the sound of a cup that has simply floweth over, it’s the sound of an artist who’s ready to lay it all bare in the name of love. “These songs were made when my life felt alive again. This music talks to my romantic soul, the fountain in my heart, which is where my art has come from since birth,” Longyu Gao says of the project. Much like the fountain from which it came, Assembling offers space for reflection — demolishing childhood trauma on “Little Piggy” or reaching anthemic epiphany on the Danny Brown collaboration “Bird W/O Nest” — and out flows a pure expression of the messy multiplicities that make up the human experience.