To hear on Sunday 17 and 24 January 2016, 2pm - 9pm:
practice
(2015-2016, Premiere)
by Yan Jun (China)
Loudspeaker installation: Knut Remond / ohrenhoch
Yan Jun on 'practice':
this piece is initiate from an interest rather than an idea. an interest of editing. or, to be more precisely, an interest of cutting the sound. a way of showing and listening to the hand of artist, the manipulator of reality.
the material itself is not pure acoustic object (acousmatic). it's easy to recognize: steps on wooden floor, camera shutters, and maybe breaths. for people know my work they can find hint of its source from my website. yes it's about theory of image, documenting, violence of aesthetics, minimal listening, body movements, and so on. but still, they are sounds, as medium, of illusion, of real, or, of themselves.
recently i'm working a lot on recording of rehearsal, practice, sound check, interval, moments before and after events, of people on working, and of audiences.
this piece is specifically made for ohrenhoch's Sunday presentation.
Audio Field Report no. 41 / Sound activism 20: Interview with Yan Jun by Knut Remond. Limited edition audio cassette, 8 copies numbered. Available at 'ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen' (and can be heard there on headphone in the archive space).
Yan Jun
Musiker und Dichter. Geboren 1973 in Lanzhou. Lebt in Peking. Seine Aktivitäten beinhalten improvisierte Musik, Fieldrecording und Organisieren. Manchmal lässt er das Publikum einschlafen. Manchmal performt er in (und mit) privaten Räumen des Publikums (Living Room Tour project).Er ist Mitglied von FEN, Tea Rockers Quintet und Impro Committee. Und Gründer des Guerilla-Labels Sub Jam.
Website Yan Jun