![Bong Agung (a/k/a Ogie Gonzales). During the hardcore/punk underground era of the 80s and early 90s in Manila, Philippines, Ogie co-founded, played and recorded with punk band called V.O.D. (Valley of Death). A couple of V.O.D. songs were compiled with other bands in the album, “Where Do We Go From Here?”, produced by the now-defunct indepedent label, Twisted Red Cross. When he immigrated to the USA, he continued playing with his brother, Jing Gonzales. In 1995, he started volunteering for San Francisco’s Teatro ng Tanan [Theater for Everyone], where he performed and composed musical scores for the stage, using both western and Philippine indigenous instruments. Independently, he composed for “Babae,” a one-woman show by Lorna Aquino Chui. In 1997, he joined the experimental comedy troupe tongue in A mood, where he met and helped form Bobby Banduria. He has collaborated with numerous playwrights, poets and musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American community. He also studies kulintang(an) under Danongan Sibay Kalanduyan. In 1998 Ogie, along with brother Jing Gonzales and tongue in A mood’s artistic director Allan Manalo, organized “piNoisepop,” a continuing bi-annual music festival to promote original Filipino American music. The festival makes its home at Bindlestiff Studio — an epicenter for Filipino American performing arts.](http://27.media.tumblr.com/gxRxAusKkhqz6tugMTNdT3goo1_500.jpg)
Bong Agung (a/k/a Ogie Gonzales). During the hardcore/punk underground era of the 80s and early 90s in Manila, Philippines, Ogie co-founded, played and recorded with punk band called V.O.D. (Valley of Death). A couple of V.O.D. songs were compiled with other bands in the album, “Where Do We Go From Here?”, produced by the now-defunct indepedent label, Twisted Red Cross. When he immigrated to the USA, he continued playing with his brother, Jing Gonzales. In 1995, he started volunteering for San Francisco’s Teatro ng Tanan [Theater for Everyone], where he performed and composed musical scores for the stage, using both western and Philippine indigenous instruments. Independently, he composed for “Babae,” a one-woman show by Lorna Aquino Chui. In 1997, he joined the experimental comedy troupe tongue in A mood, where he met and helped form Bobby Banduria. He has collaborated with numerous playwrights, poets and musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area Filipino American community. He also studies kulintang(an) under Danongan Sibay Kalanduyan. In 1998 Ogie, along with brother Jing Gonzales and tongue in A mood’s artistic director Allan Manalo, organized “piNoisepop,” a continuing bi-annual music festival to promote original Filipino American music. The festival makes its home at Bindlestiff Studio — an epicenter for Filipino American performing arts.
