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Yan
Jun, sound artist and improviser. Well known as music
critic, poet and organizer in Chinas sub-culture scene
for many years. Born in Lanzhou in 1973 he now lives
and works in Beijing where he founded Sub Jam and KwanYin
labels, and Tie Guan Yin (free-form electro-acoustic
improvised project). Aside from runing the Waterland
Kwanyin weekly event for experimental, improvised music
and sound art, he has so far found time to published
5 essay and 3
poetry collections about
Chinese new music.
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Yan
Jun is particularly interested in taking field recordings
from unusual places and manupulating recordings through
various sound processing techniques to form unique compositions
of real world experiences.
(Hear
tracks at foot of page)
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Screenplay by Marclay- live performance with musicians
Elliott Sharp, Wu Na, Bruce Gremo, Wang Li Chuan, Ben
Houge, Yan Jun and Top Floor Circus.
Screenplay is a video score in which found film footage
is combined with computer animation to create a visual
projection to be interpreted by musicians. Using video
projection to convey instructions to musicians, he composed
a silent collage of found film footage partially layered
with computer graphics to provide a framework in which
live music can develop.
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Yans
installations encourage a look into the minute details of
our sonic surroundings to find orchestras we least expected.
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Local Listening is a sound installation composed of 40
pieces of field recordings. Headphones set at variable
heights amidst a movable landscape encourage visitors
to construct their own sonic and physical vistas –
self-assembled navigations of urban sounds, natural sounds,
everyday life sounds, music, news and nonsense sounds
from ‘broken loudhailer’ to ’silent
tribute for earthquake’ creating a playful and evocative
politics of change and interactive experience. Realized
with help of Ruan Qianrui and Jen Wu. (text: J.Wu)
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Local
Listening at
the V&A, London
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News For Tomorrow is a commissioned piece by Beijing-based
artist Yan Jun for the Birdcage itinerant sound gallery.
The artist picked one of the desks in the editorial office
of Beijing Youth Weekly and placed recording devices,
mp3 players and cassette walkman in them. The devices
either reproduce the interview recordings of the magazine’s
editorial staff, or record the the office soundscape.
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News
For Tomorrow
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The
Wormhole Trip
Music For The - Space Time
More info soon.
Plus details of other releases will be made available.
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in Guangzhou
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Live in Guangzhou
CDR; publisher: Sub Jam; 2004; Other Two Comrades (Huan
Qing + Cheng Zhipeng) + Yan Jun
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Jiang Lu
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CDR; Publisher: Yan Jun & Shanghai Zendai Art Center;
2008
Hear more tracks at bottom of page.
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For more Yan Jun releases visit yanjun.org
Buy
Audio Architecture releases at:
Smallfish
Records
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Juno
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