Berichte/Features

April / Mai 2011

China Focus I, curated by Johannes S. Sistermanns

A. Interview with Kenneth Fields, Ph.D. / 15:08
J. S. Sistermanns interviewing Kenneth Field, who is professor at the CEMC (China Electronic Music Center). CEMC is China's Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing.
For more information on him please go to:
cemc.ccom.edu.cn/htmldocs/staffKen.html

B. Portrait of the sound artist and poet Yan Jun
with the following works:

01. Garden
02. Post Garden
03. 20 For Iona
04. Useless Summer
05. - 19. 15 Minutes in Life

The sound artist and poet Yan Ju was born in Lanzhou in 1973. He now lives in Beijing. He holds a B.A. of Chinese Literature.
Yan's live performance engages space feedback, loop and voice/language to make hypnotic noise. He uses concepts of recycling, feedback and reduction to creates sound art work, which related to field recording, installation, image, video, publishing and multiple forms. He had performed and participated exhibitions in Paris (Nuit Blanche), Amsterdam, Berlin (Transmediale), Cologne (MusikTriennale Köln), Moers (Moers Festival), Kuala Lumpur (Street Roar), Seoul (Bulgasari), Oslo (Sound of Mu), Brussels, Copenhagen (Metropolis Biennale), toured in Taiwan and Mainland China. He has also initiated Tie Guan Yin and Pisces Iscariots, two free-form electro-acoustic impro projects.
He was a well-known music critic and organizer as driving force of China's underground music and sub-culture scene before turn his focus into contemporary music and sound art in 2004.
Yan runs the virtual creation Sub Jam since 1998. It had released some essential underground music and independent films. In 2004 he co-found KwanYin Records for experimental music and sound exploration.
He runs Waterland Kwanyin, a weekly event of experimental / improv music and sound art since 2005, and the annual outdoor festival Mini Midi. He also curates sound projects for DIAF Art Festival since 2004, and GetItLouder07. He had published 6 books on topic of Chinese new music and 3 poetry anthologies.

www.yanjun.org
www.myspace.com/yanjunyanjun
www.subjam.org


Work comments:

01. Garden
Live at Konzertsaal of Stadtgarten, Cologne, May 12, 2007

02. Post Garden
Post Garden at yard of Le Monte en l'Air bookstore, Paris, May 20, 2007.
Both Garden as well as Post Garden mostly are about feedback sound.

03. 20 For Iona
1. choose 20 pirate DVDs from my collection; 2. mute most parts of their sound tracks; 3. modulate the rest a little bit without any cut & paste; 4. let DVDs run synchronously with the modulated sound tracks; 5. here it's an extracted edition of video-sound installation "I Bought 3000 DVDs" which was premierly show at the 4th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, 2006

05 - 19. 15 Minutes in Life
15 Minutes in Life field recording and modulated field recording. Fall and Winter of 2006, Beijing. construction site, bus, kitchen, window, road, hard drive, fan, hot spring, typing, washing machine, snore, sex, chatting, wind and elevator.

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