Rochelle Kwan

2026 Create Change Residency

yiuyiu 瑶瑶 (she/her), also known as Rochelle Hoi-Yiu Kwan, is a DJ historian & educator home-based in NYC’s Manhattan Chinatown. Taking on her childhood name, yiuyiu cares for and activates the Chinatown Records 華埠錄音 archive of inherited record/CD/tape collections from the neighborhood and beyond. As a community-taught DJ historian, she has the most fun going back-to-back (b2b) with family, friends, & next generation DJ historians of all ages to bring the music & memories out to the streets of Chinatown, our living rooms, and the airwaves – back to our loved ones and home(land)s, no matter how long or far we’ve been away.

Project

Chinatown Records Sonic Histories: Chinatown Records Radio & Sonic Histories Program

Rochelle Kwan
2026
Chinatown Records Sonic Histories is a sonic oral history program and radio station activating an ever-growing community archive of 35+ music collections inherited from Manhattan Chinatown families & beyond. This project will launch Chinatown Records Radio and our Sonic Histories fellowship and mixtape with Chinatown youth, seniors, & neighbors to train up the next generation of DJ historians of all ages to bring the archive’s music, memories, & sonic histories to life with us.
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