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Music For Listening On The Earth
yan jun
I received a commission for _Music for Listening on the Moon_ from an art project. I decided to make it as a continuation of my last album, _Wormhole Trip Ost Music for Time and Space Travel_, which is based on my site-specific installation _Wormhole Trip Souvenir_. I now have a new installation in my washroom, which I call _Wormhole 2_.
There is 60 minutes material from the installation, which was recorded from two pipes in the washroom via contact microphones, some tiny sounds plus electric current noises.
After some compression, normalizing and noise-reduction I realized it was enough for _Music for Listening on the Moon_, since it will be a chance to listen to sound itself and forget music. But I did a little bit more modulation, then got the second version. I think it’s a kind of minimal musique-concrete for _Listening to Music on the Earth_, where we still need flavoring in our life.
I’m not interested in science-fiction, I’m interested in reality, which is about creating an event by listening. My works are not intended to comfort or entertain people. I would like to confuse, hurt or isolate them, though sometimes it’s funny and entertaining anyway. The reason I chose the sounds from pipes in washroom is that it’s always satisfying to sit and listen to any tiny unknown sound at home.
The earth and the moon: two potential situations for listening and thinking the tiny difference between reality and real.
The simple compression and modulation: what does field recording/reality mean? What does composition/music mean? And why not listen to my digital recorder? It produces beautiful basic noise, and it’s free.
The first version was released on Sub Jam / Kwanyin Records as _Music for Listening on the Moon_. The second version will be released later on Japanese label SPEKK.
Links: http://www.yanjun.org/
There is 60 minutes material from the installation, which was recorded from two pipes in the washroom via contact microphones, some tiny sounds plus electric current noises.
After some compression, normalizing and noise-reduction I realized it was enough for _Music for Listening on the Moon_, since it will be a chance to listen to sound itself and forget music. But I did a little bit more modulation, then got the second version. I think it’s a kind of minimal musique-concrete for _Listening to Music on the Earth_, where we still need flavoring in our life.
I’m not interested in science-fiction, I’m interested in reality, which is about creating an event by listening. My works are not intended to comfort or entertain people. I would like to confuse, hurt or isolate them, though sometimes it’s funny and entertaining anyway. The reason I chose the sounds from pipes in washroom is that it’s always satisfying to sit and listen to any tiny unknown sound at home.
The earth and the moon: two potential situations for listening and thinking the tiny difference between reality and real.
The simple compression and modulation: what does field recording/reality mean? What does composition/music mean? And why not listen to my digital recorder? It produces beautiful basic noise, and it’s free.
The first version was released on Sub Jam / Kwanyin Records as _Music for Listening on the Moon_. The second version will be released later on Japanese label SPEKK.
Links: http://www.yanjun.org/
YAN Jun (CN), born 1973. Based in Beijing. BA in Chinese literature. As an improviser he uses feedback noise in recent concerts and also does field recording, site-specific sound art, voice and writing. Founder of Sub Jam/Kwanyin Records, which runs the weekly event Waterland Kwanyin (2005-2010) and the annual festival Mini Midi (since 2005). Member of FEN (Far East Network, Otomo Yoshihide, Ryu Hankil, Yuen Cheewai and Yan Jun). He has performed around China and internationally and has been supported by the Asian Culture Council as a residency musician in New York in 2011.