| Title or content of the project: Sounds from Qiu Jiang Road |
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Artist(s) / Organization(s): Yan Jun
Media(s): Field recording, publishing, and retailing
Date: 2008-1-26
Venue(s): Qiu Jiang Road |
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Description:
The sounds appearring in this work, including the sound of elevated railroad, vehicles, music, peddlers'hawkings, conversations, machines, manual work and various other daily activities, are all collected from the second-hand electronic and electric machine market on Qiujiang Road in Shanghai. Here, you will witness another side of Shanghai that is distinct from the well-known "high speed", "capitalized" and "shining" side of the metropolis, and maybe it is this side of Shanghai that reflects the true color of the city: Streets lined with stalls selling all kinds of electronic products and snack bars, the symbol of the traditional life of the common people. You will enjoy reasonable prices, high-qualified products as well as a peaceful yet energetic shopping environment.
This piece of work is composed of the natural sound of the city on Qiujiang Road. It also uses the resources of production there to make copies of CDs and make them circulate on Qiujiang Road under the market rules and regulations there. If the sound is said to be born from nothingness and finally fade into nothingness, then let its existence be proved by our everyday life in the above circulation.
Yan Jun's Website ：www.yanjun.org
Website for proposal：www.yanjun.org/projects/QiuJiangLu.html
The artist and his works:
Yan Jun, poet and sound artist, was born in 1973 in Lanzhou and graduated from the Chinese Department of Northwest Normal University. Well known as a music critic and music activity organizer, he has contributed a lot to the development of China's indie music and sub-culture scene. As the founder of the Sub Jam and KwanYin labels, he also set up "Tie Guan Yin" and "The Perfidious Pisces". At present, he is living and working in Beijing, running the Waterland and Kwanyin weekly event for experimental/improvised music and sound art each Tuesday. His works ranges from recordings of the sound of fields and voices, to works making use of various modern artistic factors such as the concept of blankness and abridgement, repetition and nihility, people's voices and poems, etc. |
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