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Shenzhen April 30: Lin Zhiying, Justin Zhong Minjie, Li Chin-sung
Shanghai May 21: Jin Shan, Xu Cheng, Wang Changcun, Stefanie L. Ku
Beijing June 12: Sun Lei, Wang Changcun, Li Jianhong, Fu Yu + Jia Haiqing (8gg)
SOUND ARTISTS:
Fu Yu + Jia Haiqing (8gg)
Jin Shan
Justin Zhong Minjie
Li Chin-sung
Li Jianhong
Lin Zhiying
Stefanie L. Ku
Sun Lei (718)
Wang Changcun
Xu Cheng
SOUND PERFORMANCE COORDINATOR:
Lawrence Lee
Fu Yu + Jia Haiqing (8gg),Beijing, China
8gg is a multimedia duo in Beijing composed of FU Yu and JIA Haiqing. Their works include multimedia art, web art, interactive art, visual - music installation, interactive music, aleatory music, experiment theater.
Exhibitions:
2000 ALL OVER CHINA ART PROJECT 2000, Beijing, China
2001 Loft New Media Art Festival, Beijing, China
2001 MAAP01 EXCESS-new media festival, Brisbane, Australia
2001 The CYNETart exhibition, Dresden, Germany
2002 FILE 2002 electronic language international festival, Brazil
2002 MAAP Asia new media festival, Beijing, China
2003 CAPALBIO CINEMA INTERNATIONAL SORT FILM FESTIVAL, Italy
2004 OUT THE WINDOW-SPACES OF DISTRACTION, Tokyo, Japan
2004 OUT THE WINDOW-SPACES OF DISTRACTION, Korea
2004 Shanghai Biennale Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai, China
2004 The CYNETart exhibition, Dresden, Germany
Performances:
2002 Lighting Great Wall Music Night, Jin Shan Ling, Great Wall (vj)
2003 KUNSTEN FESTIVAL DES ARTS, Brussels, Belgium (drama)
2003 TEMPS D'IMAGES, Paris (drama) 2003 AUTUMN FESTIVAL, Centre Pompidou, Paris (drama) 2003 CEREMONY, ICA, London (drama)
2003 Sounding Beijing 2003, Beijing, China(audio-visual live performance) 2004 CULTURAL CAPITAL OF EUROPE - CHINESE NIGHT, Lille, France (vj)
2004 Experimental Night Music and Visual, Zurich, Switzerland(audio-visual live performance)
2004 Boutique Shanghai, Berne, Switzerland (vj).
Jin Shan (aka p.s.o), Hangzhou China
Born in Tonglu, Zhejiang province, 1976, Jin Shan is a co-founder of 2pi Records, a self-funding experimental label based in Hangzhou, China. He has released two CDR albums Tong Lu and Fen Shui in 2003 and 2004 respectively, both under the alias of p.s.o. In 2003 and 2004 Jin co-organized and performed in 2pi Festivals. In November 2004, he participated in a video exhibition named Enclosure (Quan Di) in Bai Ta Ling, Hangzhou.
Justin Zhong Minjie, Guangzhou China
Born in Guangzhou, 1975
Started doing experimental music in 1997
2002: "Broken-Structure Compositions", "A Thousand to a Zero" and
"Guitar Works" were released on the Internet
2003: two pieces were included in CHINA: the Sonic Avant-Garde, the
first-ever compilation of chinese sound art released by Post-Concrete
2003.11: Sounding Beijing 2003, Beijing China
2004.2: "Back Packer" Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hongkong/Chongqing
2004.5: Sounding Guangzhou 2004, Guangzhou China
2004.10: Nuit Blanche festival, Paris France
Li Chin-sung, Hong Kong China
Li Chin-sung (aka Dickson Dee) is one of the driving forces of the chinese new music scene in the past ten years. He has helped releasing and distributing the works by musicians from China Mainland, Hongkong and Taiwan under his own label Sound Factory (now Noise Asia). As a curator of live concerts, he has brought numerous experimental artists to perform in China, among them John Zorn, HAINO Keiji, OTOMO Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Zbigniew Karkowski, etc. In 1995, Li's album Past was released by Zorn's label Tzadik, seven years later he released his second album Sunday under his own label Noise Asia. The album is the first of an on-going 7-CDs project, with each CD given the name of each day of the week (the tracks will be titled simply by their time frames). In July, 2004, Sunday was awarded the "New Music Award" by Chinese Music Media Awards. Li is now working on the soundtrack for the dance program "Lin Chi" by Guangdong Modern Dance Company, which will premier at the end of May. The 40-mins program draws its inspiration from the chinese way of calligraphy, and was composed of solo, duo, triple and group dances.
Li Jianhong, Hangzhou China
LI Jianhong is one of the most active chinese sound artists in mainland China. Born in Fenghua, Zhejiang Province in 1975 and now reside in Hangzhou, Li is the founder of the avant-rock group "2nd Skin" and the manager of 2pi Records ("2pi" being the chinese equivalent to 2nd Skin), a self-funding experimental label based in Hangzhou, China.
Li's early involvement in Hangzhou's experimental culture started when he co-founded the group Tomeclub (Tao Mi She). His debut solo album Talk Freely Before the Beginning was particularly well-received in Japan, and has established him as a radical yet highly-crafted guitar noisician. After listening to the album, the world-famous experimental musician Zbigniew Karkowski called Li "the best noise musician in China". Li's second solo album RTV-702 is also out now. Both albums were released by 2pi Records.
In 2003 and 2004 Li curated and performed in 2pi Festivals, in October 2004 he played at the Nuit Blanche festival in Paris.
In June, 2004, Li was invited as a guest lecturer by the Dept. of New Media of China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he gave the lecture "Live Action - an Introduction to Contemporary Noise Art".
Lin Zhiying, Shenzhen China
Born in Hainan, China, later moved to Shenzhen.
Lin's epiphany came as he was exposed to the works of Japanese noise guru Merzbow (Akita Masami), after which he started on his own compositions immediately. Some of his works during 2003 - 2004 were compiled as Selected Works 2003 – 2004 and was distributed free on the internet.
In August 2004, Lin debuted on "Forbidden Frequencies", a live event aiming at the exposure of unknown Chinese sound artists.
Lin's work Tokyo Fist, which uses sounds from the Japanese cult director Shinya Tsukamoto's film of the same name as the only source, was selected by chinese video artist CAO Fei as the soundtrack for her short film Cosplayer, it was screened on the 5th Shanghai Biennale, 2004.
Lin's new album will be released by Threshold Production.
Stefanie L. Ku, California US
Stefanie L. KU is a media artist who’s main concern is sculpture of sound and moving image. Born in Taiwan, 1977, Ku moved to the US in her primary school years. She started her musical education as a classical piano player at the age of five. After obtaining a diploma in composition, she went further to study multimedia art, and graduated with a master degree at the Dept. of Media Arts & Technology, UCSB.
In May, 2004, Ku performed in Sounding Taipei 2004 festival, Taipei, Taiwan. In the November of the same year she was invited for concert performance at Conciousness Reframed 2004: Qi and Complexity, an academic forum and composium on computer music held in Beijing.
Ku's current works focus on the transformation of the shapeless vision attached with pure conceptions to decipherable message.
Sun Lei (718), Beijing China
Born in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, 1982. 718 is a major of electronic engineering graduated from North China Univ. of Technology, the background explains his identities as both a synthesizer-maker and a laptop musician.
A very prolific artist, 718's styles range from folk music to mysterious, epic-like electroacoustic compositions to even organ music, most of these works have never been released yet. In 2005, his two albums An (literally means "serenity") and Nowise Assault. Leek's Assault. PEI's Box were released by Subjam Records.
Highlights of his unreleased major works include Bu Yu, Bei Qi, Mei Zhan (for organ) and Pi (read as ‘Pea’ not ‘Pie’, for orchestra and pre-recorded tapes). He also participated in two compilations: The Sound of Silence (Reconfiguration Records) & Landscape.
In 2004, 718 played in several festivals including the “798 Festival”, "Who's Singing in Spring?" Festival and a concert organized by Kwanyin records.
Besides his own compositions, 718 occasionally does mastering for other musicians, he's also a associate designer and developer of an audio-related website.
Wang Changcun, Harbin China
Wang Changcun is a sound artist, website designer and lomographer based in Harbin, China. Born in 1981, He's one of the earliest sound artists in mainland China.
In 2003, six of Wang's works were selected in CHINA: the Sonic Avant-Garde, the first compilation of chinese sound art released by the California-based label Post-Concrete.
In November 2003, Wang performed in Sounding Beijing 2003, the first-ever large-scale experimental festival in China. In the October of next year, he toured extensively in Europe (France, Netherland, Belgium) for one month, during which he was invited by the Belgium label Sub Rosa to submit a full-length CD of works for release. This is the first example of mainland chinese sound artist being invited to release in an world-famous label. Besides solo album, Wang's works will also be included in a future 8-CDs set survey of 20th century's electronic music curated by the same label.
Xu Cheng, Shanghai China
Xu Cheng is a photographer and sound artist. Born in Shanghai, 1980, XU has been making sound art since 1999, in 2003, his works were included in CHINA: the Sonic Avant-Garde, the first compilation of chinese sound art released by the California-based label Post-Concrete.
As a designer major (he graduated from the Dept. of Computer Art & Design in Dong Hua Univ.), Xu was once hailed by critic as "the outsider of sound art", his yet-to-be-released major works ("4-4", "My Livingspace", "Entrance", Untitled 2003", "Untitled 2004", etc.) bear a strong personal touch which sounds completely alien from other fellow sound artists in China. Rightnow Xu's main instrument for making music is a GUI-based synthesis/processing software named Analog Box.
In 2004 Xu has performed on the second 2pi Festival in Hangzhou and “A Tale of Three Cities” in Shanghai. In the latter event he played with Guilin musician Ronez (ZHOU Pei) and Australian musician Hetleveiker. Xu's debut full-length album will be released by Threshold Production.
Get It Louder Sound Performance Coordinator:
Lawrence Lee, Guangzhou China
Lawrence Lee (LI Ruyi) is a freelance writer/translater/curator based in Guangzhou, China.
Lee worked for Southern Metropolis Daily (one of the leading mainstream dailies in Pearl River Delta) from 2002 to 2004, during which he wrote extensively on avant-garde music/sound art/film/culture, published both on SMD and other chinese media.
In November, 2003, Lee worked as the coordinator of Sounding Beijing 2003 , this is the first-ever large-scale festival of its kind in China. Later in May, 2004, Lee curated/presented Sounding Guangzhou 2004 in Guangzhou, China.
Lee is also a member of China Sound Unit, a conglomerate of mobile groups devoted to the perception and analysis of aural phenomena in Chinese urban centers, with members scattered throughout the Mainland and Taiwan. The mission of CSU is to contemplate, collect, surveil, analyze, preserve, deconstruct and recontextualize sound objects in the Mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan. A small part of CSU's works can be heard on CHINA: the Sonic Avant-Garde - the first survey compilation of Chinese sound art and experimental music, released by the California-based label Post-Concrete.