To hear on Sunday 18 and 25 December 2016, 2pm - 9pm:
(2016)
by Yan Jun (China) & Mattin (Spain)
Curator, loudspeaker installation: Knut Remond
Yan Jun & Mattin on 'Vote on Voting':
This is an ongoing research project exploring the relationship between democracy and experimental music. The first presentation happened in the format of a concert on the 18th of September 2016 which was the elections in Berlin. Yan Jun comes from China therefore he never participated in a general or regional democratic election. In preparation for this concert, we called all political parties and asked several questions and recorded them. Before the concert, we went to the voting poll and recorded the ambient sound there. After we went to the concert venue and reproduced the files while people were drinking. We started informal conversations with members of the audience but the audience thought that there was nothing going on. After two and a half hours a concern formulated privately by a member of the audience was shared to everybody in the room:
“Maybe democracy will stop because there is less and less people believing in it.”
Just as the conversation started, N.M.O. the group which was supposed to DJ after us, started to play music and our concert actually ended up with an election voting on whether the audience would like to have a conversation, music, both or silence. It was voted to have silence but actually nobody respected the vote and there was full on music and talking. What it was clear after this micro experiment, is that democracy is in crisis and many people in the experimental music scene are suspicious about it. This can be confirmed at the macro level with the recent political events: Brexit, Trump, Italy, FARC vote in Colombia…
For this two Sundays exhibition you will be able to hear material from our first intervention and you will be asked to vote on whether to vote or not to vote and share your thoughts with us.
Audio Field Reports nos. 1-56 / Soundactivism 1-35: Interviews since January 2014 with the artists, concept and design by Knut Remond. Limited editions audio cassette, each 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' (and heard on headphone in the ohrenhoch archive).
Yan Jun, musician and poet. born in lanzhou in 1973. based in beijing.
currently lives in berlin for artist residency (daad).
he is working on improvised music, experimental music, field recording, organizing and writing.
alongside of at venues, he goes to audience’s home to play with the environment and what else available in the room (Living Room Tour project). and doing noise hypnotizing at any place for small amount of audiences.
also amplifying body movements or other performative elements in a simple manner.
he is member of FEN, Tea Rockers Quintet and Impro Committee. and founder of the guerrilla label Sub Jam.
Mattin is an artist from Bilbao -currently living in Berlin- working with noise and improvisation. His work seeks to address the social and economic structures of experimental sonic artistic production through live performance, recordings and writing. Using a conceptual approach, he aims to question the nature and parameters of improvisation, specifically the relationship between the idea of ”freedom”and constant innovation that it traditionally implies, and the established conventions of improvisation as a genre. He is currently doing a PhD at the University of the Basque Country under the supervision of Ray Brassier and Josu Rekalde. Along with Anthony Iles they edited the book Noise & Capitalism in 2009. In 2012 CAC Brétigny and Tuamaturgia published Uconsitituted Praxis, a book collecting his writing plus interviews and reviews from performances that he has been part of. Both books are available online. Mattin has been invited to participate in documenta 14 which will take place in Athens and Kassel in 2017.
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