张荐
FM3Zhang
艺人：张荐
标题：孟加拉湾的短波
编号：kwanyin 033
发行日期：2009
长度：60分30
设计：张荐/阮千瑞
曲目：
1. 12’51 [audio:1_short_wave_of_bengal_bay.mp3]
2. 13’22 [audio:2_China.mp3]
3. 14’48 [audio:3_short_wave_of_bengal_bay.mp3]
4. 10’44 [audio:4_short_wave_of_bengal_bay.mp3]
5. 08’45 [audio:5_short_wave_of_bengal_bay.mp3]
介绍：
孟加拉湾，热带风暴的源地，2006年1月的午夜，电波交汇在潮湿空气里
张荐，fm3成员，和一台接触不良的短波收音机，在船上摇晃
来自印度，缅甸，孟加拉，斯里兰卡，泰国，马来西亚，印度尼西亚，中国，全世界，已知和未知国度的电台短波
来自电离层的电磁波，来自锡，铜，锌和铁的电流，他身体的磁场
的信号，和那些音乐一起弥散，收集在录音机里
尤以来自中国的音乐最为大声，热烈，经久不息
特为60年国庆献礼，以我们未知的世界，山寨的身体，弥散的心
限量200台
与爱父爱母三联合出品
链接：www.fm3.com.cn
artist: FM3Zhang
title: Short-Wave of Bengal Bay
cata: kwanyin 033
release date: 2009
length: 60’30
design: Zhang Jian/Ruan Qianrui
track list:
1. 12’51 [audio:1_short_wave_of_bengal_bay.mp3]
2. 13’22 [audio:2_China.mp3]
3. 14’48 [audio:3_short_wave_of_bengal_bay.mp3]
4. 10’44 [audio:4_short_wave_of_bengal_bay.mp3]
5. 08’45 [audio:5_short_wave_of_bengal_bay.mp3]
about this album:
this is not a buddha machine but a radio.
Zhang Jian from FM3 made this short-wave field recording 3 year ago in Bengal Bay.
now we release it as a present for 60 years ceremony of P. R. China.
64k bps Shanzhai quality.
limited 200 copies
joint release with FM3
link: www.fm3.com.cn
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李增辉 – 水陆观音现场
Li Zenghui – Live at Waterland Kwanyin
艺人：李增辉
标题：水陆观音现场
编号：kwanyin 032
发行日期：2009
长度：50分06秒
设计：阮千瑞
曲目：
1. WK127-1 (6’28)
2. WK127-2 (7’54)
3. WK128-2 (6’22)
4. WK129 (5’14)
5. WK130-1 (6’57)
6. WK130-2 (8’01)
7. WK142-1 (3’26)
8. WK142-2 (5’50)
介绍：
1，“LOVE GAS!!!!!!! CRAZY FOR GAS!!!!!! 我的意识指挥我，即刻使粒子被耸动！”
2，“水陆观音现场录音，萨克斯和人声，超兽李增辉，孤独粒子，分裂的心，你，和他一同摆脱做人的痛苦。”
摄影：林盟山（场地提供：蓬蒿剧场）
母带处理：段小林（好听录音棚）
感谢：史阳
链接：http://www.douban.com/artist/lzh/
artists: Li Zenghui
title: Live at Waterland Kwanyin
cata: kwanyin 032
release: 2009
length: 50′06”
design：Ruan qianrui
Track list：
1. WK127-1 (6’28)
2. WK127-2 (7’54)
3. WK128-2 (6’22)
4. WK129 (5’14)
5. WK130-1 (6’57)
6. WK130-2 (8’01)
7. WK142-1 (3’26)
8. WK142-2 (5’50)
about this album:
1, “LOVE GAS!!!!!!! CRAZY FOR GAS!!!!!! My consciousness conducting me, makes the particles been agitated imidiately.”
2, “Li Zenghui the screaming artist, the lonely monster, the still heartbreaker, who now decide releases these saxophone and voice live recordings of notorious Waterland Kwanyin events, will get rid of the pain of being human, together with you.”
Photo: Lin Mengshan (www.lmsphotos.com) at Peng Hao Theater
Mastering: Duan Xiaolin (Nice Tune Studio Beijing)
Thanks: Shi Yang
link: http://www.douban.com/artist/lzh/
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颜峻
Yan Jun
艺人：颜峻
标题：虫洞旅行电影原声（时空旅行专用）
长度：60分
发行日期：2009年
编号：kwanyin 030
设计：阮千瑞
介绍：
2008年11月13日，我在北京，这个店，做了一小时录音
借助我在那里安装的声音装置，“虫洞旅行纪念”
然后用软件做了简单的调变
使用方法：
1，请勿佩戴耳机聆听
2，请接好耳机，将音量调小，把它放在一边，或挂在身上
3，或使用手机上自带的喇叭播放
4，也可使用小型音箱，最好把音箱放在抽屉里，或其他看不见的地方
5，适合在大型空间及户外播放，可使用任何音箱，但应保持较小的音量
6，请循环播放
7，请和我保持精神上的联系
出品和版权：这个店 + 撒把芥末/观音唱片
母带处理：段小林（好听录音棚）
感谢：黄河，小船，Michael Eddy，张鋆，张巍，胡昉，乔颖
链接：
www.yanjun.org
www.yanjun.org/blog（需要翻墙）
这个店
“这个店”是维他命空间（Vitamin Creative Space）以“店”的形式在北京所作的一个新公共空间；“这个店”从日常实践的角度观察和呈现当代艺术创作，通过在日常过程中有意识的空间生产和演变，更直接地促成创造性行为和日常生活关系的转化。“这个店”模糊由社会系统所区分的空间界限，而探讨一种和个人的日常实践能够形成积极对话的有机的空间形态。
vitamincreativespace.blogbus.com
online shop: shop57284870.taobao.com/
www.vitamincreativespace.com
Tel/Fax：0086-10-59004374
E-mail: project@vitamincreativespace.com
Artist: Yan Jun
Title: Wormhole Trip OST (Music For Time-space Travel)
Length: 60′
Release date: 2009
Cata: kwanyin 030
Design: Ruan Qianrui
About this album:
I have did 1 hour recording at The Shop, Beijing, on November 13th, 2008
By my installation Wormhole Trip Souvenir which was installed there
Then made a simple modulation by software
User Guide:
1, Please do not ware earphone or headphone to listen to
2, Please plug earphone or headphone, modify the volume to a low level, then leave it alone or hang on your dress
3, Or playback via build-in microphone of your mobile
4, Or playback via small speakers. For better result please hide speakers in draw or any place you can not see them
5, It is fit for large space or outdoor space. Any speaker can be used. Please keep the volume low
6, Please playback on repeat mode
7, Please keep in touch with me mentally
Publishing & Copyrights: The Shop + Sub Jam/Kwanyin Records
Mastering: Duan Xiaolin (Nice Tune Studio)
Thanks: Huang He, Boat Zhang, Michael Eddy, Zhang Jun, Zhang Wei, Hu Fang, Qiao Ying
link:
www.yanjun.org
www.yanjun.org/blog（需要翻墙）
The Shop
The Shop is a public space produced by Vitamin Creative Space that takes a more organic view of art practices, surrounded as they are by daily processes. As a space of daily experimentation and time accumulation, The Shop will eventually not only contextualize but also produce reality.
vitamincreativespace.blogbus.com
online shop: shop57284870.taobao.com/
www.vitamincreativespace.com
Tel/Fax: 0086-10-59004374
E-mail: project@vitamincreativespace.com
Rice屎Corpse（Lucas Abela，杨漾，李增辉）
Rice屎Corpse (Lucas Abela, Yang Yang, Li Zenghui)
标题：Mrs Rice
艺人：Rice屎Corpse（Lucas Abela，杨漾，李增辉）
编号：kwanyin 029
发行日期：2009
长度：51分37秒
设计：Lucas Abela，阮千瑞
曲目：
1 山 (6:39)
2 印在我蛋上 (13:21)
3 桌面蛙 (6:43)
4 复活者们 (10:22)
5 北京烤鸭 (2:24)
6 米夫人 (12:07）
介绍：
澳大利亚，一个幸运的国家！
世上还有哪个政府，会把一个往自己脸上砸玻璃的疯子送到中国去当文化大使？好，这事儿在卢卡斯·阿贝拉（Justice Yeldham）身上发生了，这张专辑，《米夫人》，就是结果。在不到两个月的时间里，他在北京组建了Rice屎Corpse乐队，在出发进行10城巡演之前，和他们即兴玩了4次，其中两次就成了这张专辑。
卢卡斯抵达的时候，一个由玻璃，鼓和钢琴组成的三重奏出现在他脑子里。然后两个完全不同的乐手加入，实现了这个不可能的乐队。首先是杨漾，打鼓他是新手，但作为麻沸散乐队的成员，他以古怪的行为而成为北京那个保守的圈子里最疯狂的人。他的大声和自信，显然和萨克斯手李增辉的温和而又残酷地羞涩的个性形成鲜明对比，李增辉在这个计划里，成了钢琴手，仅仅是因为，在这个城市里找不到合适的钢琴手。
时间有限，语言不通，他们还是弄出来了这六首多样且奇怪的即兴作品。在音乐性方面，它远离阿贝拉的多数作品，杨和李的节奏部分把这位老练的玻璃人推向了令人惊喜的新方向。
title: Mrs Rice
artists: Rice屎Corpse（Lucas Abela, Yang Yang, Li Zenghui）
cata: kwanyin 029
release: 2009
length: 51’37”
design: Lucas Abela, Ruan Qianrui
track list:
1 Mountain (6:39)
2 Stamp On My Balls (13:21)
3 Desktop Frog (6:43)
4 Resurrection Men (10:22)
5 Peking Duck (2:24)
6 Mrs Rice (12:07）
about this album:
Australia the lucky country! What other government would send a lunatic artist known for smashing amplified glass against his face off to China to become a cultural ambassador? Well it happened to Lucas Abela (Justice Yeldham) and this album, Mrs Rice is the result. With under two months in Beijing he formed the pick up band Rice屎Corpse, (named after the Chinese character for shit, 屎 which itself is the combination of two characters “尸” corpse and “米” rice), jammed with them four times (two off which were recorded for this album) before heading off for a ten city tour of China.
A Trio of glass, drums and piano was in Lucas’s minds ear when he arrived and two completely different musicians came forward to form this unlikely band. First to be recruited for drums was Yang Yang whose antics in his own band Mafeisan has given him the reputation of being the craziest exponent of the conservative Beijing scene. His ultra loud out and proud personality is in stark contrast to the mild mannered and brutally shy saxophonist Li Zenghui who came to the project as pianist, cause simply put there were no suitable pianists in the city.
Existing for a limited time and without a common language to interrupt they managed to create these six varied and strangely focused improvisations. This despondent attempt at musicality is by far Abela’s most accessible work to date as the addition of Yang and Li’s rhythm section forced the seasoned glass man to take the instrument in surprising new directions.
]]>他们的身份相当复杂和模糊，有唱片店老板，有平面设计师，有乐评 人，有手工制作者，有策展人，有艺术家助理，有无业青年……
惟一的共同点就是，他们聚集于这个厂牌，为自己喜欢的音乐效力。因此这也是一次幕后工作者的雅集。
Sub Jam /KwanYin Records invited 10 past and present colleagues to make package for this special join-release individually.
Their identities are ambiguous: owner of music shop, graphic designer, music critic, DIY designer, curator, artist assistant, unemployed…
The only consistency is they are together here with the lable,
labour for music they love. Therefore this is a gentle meeting of staff behind the scenes as well.
制作人：史阳+王颖艽
数量：6
材料：废纸，布，绳子，方便碗，画框等
制作人：露露
数量：5
材料：布绳，橡皮筋，棉花，印章等
制作人：老羊
数量：5
材料：纸
制作人：颜峻
数量：5
材料：自行焊接的接触式话筒，线
制作人：苏铂琪
数量：5
材料：另一组完整唱片包装，胶带。
制作人：和小宇
数量：5
材料：证书
制作人：王旭梁
数量：5
材料：塑料袋，自行设计的封面
制作人：阮千瑞
数量：4
材料：盗版CD，盗版DVD，胶条，纸板
制作人：西西
数量：5
材料：画框，自行设计的封面。
(详细图片 detailed pictures)
Ya Ji 3 Solveigs Lied
雅集3 索尔维其之歌
艺人：群星
标题：雅集3 索尔维其之歌
编号：kwanyin Y003
发行日期：2009
长度：50分
基本设计：阮千瑞
包装：颜峻，阮千瑞，西西，老羊，露露，苏铂琪，王旭梁，史阳+王颖艽，和小宇
撒把芥末/观音唱片版，限量50套
曲目：
01 Maskinanlegg / Solveig Kjelstrup
02 Helene Rickhard
03 PK101
04 Center of The Universe
05 Evol
06 °OP_Bitchshift
07 Daniel Jerome
08 Barabass
09 NEKRO-XP
10 Tombe En Combat!
11 Torstein Wjiik
12 NACHT
13 Jan M. Iversen
14 Pål Asle Pettersen
介绍：
这是一个重新混音专辑，由Maskinanlegg / Solveig Kjelstrup提供原曲，由13个不同风格的挪威音乐家/乐队分别重新混音。Maskinanlegg是本计划发起人Bjørn Hatterud的个人计划，Solveig Kjelstrup是著名的Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje的化名。
这张专辑由世界范围内的10个独立厂牌联合发行，各自制作不同数量的CDr，不同的封套设计，不同的发行渠道。
雅集是一个关于合作的唱片出版系列。
撒把芥末/观音唱片邀请了10位过去和现在的同事，分别为这个特殊的联合出版物制作包装。他们的身份相当复杂和模糊，有唱片店老板，有平面设计师，有乐评人，有手工制作者，有策展人，有艺术家助理，有无业青年……惟一的共同点就是，他们聚集于这个厂牌，为自己喜欢的音乐效力。因此这也是一次幕后工作者的雅集。
全部曲目（01和07除外）由Lasse Marhaug进行母带处理
艺人网址：
Maskinanlegg: http://www.myspace.com/maskinanlegg
Solveig Kjelstrup: http://www.myspace.com/majaratkje
Helene Rikchard: http://www.myspace.com/rickhardhelene
pk10: http://www.myspace.com/pk101
Center of the Universe: http://www.myspace.com/Bagpiperatthegatesofdawn
Evol: http://www.myspace.com/weloveevol
°OP_Bitschshift: http://www.myspace.com/opbitchshift
Daniel Jerome: http://www.myspace.com/danieljeromestar
Barabass: http://www.myspace.com/happyfew,
Nekro-XP: http://www.myspace.com/nekroxp
Tombe en Combat!: http://www.myspace.com/theemarbleindextombeencombat
Torstein Wjiik: http://www.myspace.com/torsteinwjiik
NCHT: http://www.myspace.com/ncht
Iversen: http://www.myspace.com/tibprod
Pål Asle Pettersen: http://www.myspace.com/plaslepettersen
Lasse Marhaug: http://www.lassemarhaug.no/
以下厂牌参与了联合出版：
Sub Jam/Kwanyin: http://www.subjam.org
Quagga Curious Sounds: http://www.myspace.com/quaggacurioussoundsandoddities
Teen Action Records: www.myspace.com/teenactionrecords
Stront Tapes: http://www.myspace.com/odalnoise
Heilskaabaal: http://www.heilskabaal.net/
TIB-prod: http://www.bek.no/~tibprod/
How is Annie Records: http://www.howisannierecords.com/
Ambolthue Records: http://www.ambolthue.com/
October Party Records: http://www.myspace.cn/octoberparty
Shasha Records: http://www.noishanghai.org/shasha/
Megaeldar records: megaeldar@hotmail.com
艺人介绍：
01，玛雅•苏卢维•齐勒斯都鲁普•罗德契（Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje）是挪威最著名的古典当代作曲家之一，她的作品在全世界得到演出和获奖。她也是噪音乐队Fe-mail和即兴乐队SPUNK的成员，她是个人人声即兴艺术家、爵士乐队中的人声表演家，曾经和黑金属乐队合作，在乡村乐队中献唱，为流行乐队混音和演唱。
Maskinanlegg是彼昂•哈夫德鲁（Bjørn Hatterud）的垃圾工业/噪音计划。他曾经创作了大量CDr，在全世界的无名厂牌发行。他把Maskinanlegg看作一个艺术计划，而不只是音乐计划。他的目标是在高级艺术和流行文化之间的界限上找乐，探索业余音乐、轻浮流行和前卫极端之间的审美共同点。
02，赫粱勒•瑞格哈德（Helene Rickhard）是一个挪威明星艺术家的女儿，曾经在小时候得到索尼雅皇后的拜会。赫粱勒是Mikrodiscomovement的成员，这是一个用玩任天堂和低保真数字设备的年轻音乐家组织。她为这首作品所做的重新混音，也有一个mv版本，去youtube找找看……
03，PK 101就是彼•克里斯德安•努涅斯（Per Kristian Nordnes），他也是mikrodiscomovement的一个成员。他来自挪威北端，成长于夏日的极昼和冬季的极夜。彼•克里斯德安独自创作了很多音乐。在创作他的重新混音版本时，他已经在卑尔根郊外的老屋中住了几年，多少有点与世隔绝。他的重新混音用原来版本的人声采样制作而成。
04，“宇宙中心”（ Center of the Universe）是尤里根•瑟斯菲斯•旭里斯达（Jørgen Sissyfus Skjulstad）众多的计划之一。他也是挪威最著名的CDr厂牌Metronomicon的幕后策划，这个厂牌在过去10年里发表了挪威最受好评的地下流行乐专辑。旭里斯达也是一位多种乐器演奏者，一位热爱晦涩歌曲和奇怪节奏的优秀音乐家，他让“宇宙中心”以东欧情调、独立流行和俱乐部音乐闻名。
05，艾沃（Evol）是一个柏林的单人计划，探索在dub、俱乐部音乐和工业音乐之间的黑暗风景。他在父亲过世之后的伤心日子里，制作了这首黑暗dub风格的重新混音。作为最受欢迎的DJ，他曾登上International Deejay厂牌的CD第10名。
06，°OP_Bitschshift同样来自柏林。这支乐队是本德•麦克佛森（Bend McPherson）的计划。发表关于操女孩的黑胶和CD（至少多数曲子如此），风格是hard electro节拍。它是神奇的柏林时髦场景中值得一提的名字。
07，丹尼尔•吉默（Daniel Jerome）的真名是丹尼尔•安德森（Daniel Andersen），他来自挪威最西南部。他从德国cult乐队Kelly Family的成员那里借来了丹尼尔•吉默这个名字。丹尼尔喜欢化妆，用自己发明的音乐，演奏那些关于他失去的男朋友们，以关于及其他同志生活的歌。在他的重新混音版本中，他加入了挪威特鲁姆亥地区的方言歌词，这是玛雅•苏卢维•齐勒斯都鲁普•罗德契的老家。在这首歌里，他假装自己是苏卢维•齐勒斯都鲁普.
08，巴拉贝司（Barabass）是“巴拉贝司和快乐的少数人”乐队的成员，来自卑尔根。通常，他创作及其快乐的摇滚乐。作为独立艺术家，巴拉贝司在这儿挥动剪刀，把原作的人声剪成了小片，让它们在背景节奏周围跳舞。巴拿巴（Barabas）是人们选来代替耶稣基督活下去的那个坏家伙。我不知道为什么他起了这么个名字。
09，Nekro-XP是挪威噪音文化中的一颗新星。他制作极简和重复的噪音，但也使用人声等具象采样。他的声音是工业的、黑暗的、歌特的和政治上不正确的。Nekro的意思是死亡。我实在不知道这里的X和P是什么意思
10，“战死沙场！”（Tombe en Combat!）是来自奥斯陆的乐队。他们是两个分别叫爱因斯坦（Øystein）和爱因斯坦（Øistein）（靠！！！）的即兴乐手外加一支话筒。他们没有遵守时间限制，所以这个重新混音的原版有20分钟以上。它被剪成两个部分，重新混合，分别放在不同的声道上。“战死沙场！”没有被问及是否可以这样，所以，别告诉他们！
11，托森达•维克（Torstein Wjiik）是契尔•汉姆森（Kjetil Hansen）的另一个自我。他是一个噪音音乐家，也是挪威最年轻的厂牌经营者之一，他经营“Ambolthue”厂牌。他超级活跃，有段时间每周发表他和其他艺术家（主要是其他人）的作品。他的特长在于荒谬的幽默和粗糙、极端的噪音的结合，尽管才刚过20，他已经在挪威噪音文化中留下了印记。
12，Ncht就是挪威艺术家唐尼雅•斯坦莱（Tania Steine），用一切形式创作，从摄影和录像到绘画和装置。她也以挪威黑金属乐队的风格、流派作为创作背景，像Darkthrone, Thorns, Satyricon, Burzum, Emperor这些早期（谋杀和烧教堂的年代）挪威黑金属乐队。她去年的计划之一，是和拉瑟•芒骇（Lasse Marhaug）合作的《渡鸦》。你可以清晰地听到她那来自萨满教和挪威大自然的灵感。
13，伊文森（Iversen）就是杨•摩汀•伊文森（Jan Morten Iversen）。他经营TIB-prod，一个非常棒的厂牌（也会发行这张重新混音专辑），发行过100多张以挪威作品为主的优秀噪音专辑。他住在哈富什菲尔，靠近斯达万格，一个靠挪威石油而富起来的城市（挪威是世界上第二大石油生产国，多数石油都流经斯达万格）。哈富什菲尔则因为海盗战争而闻名。目前，漫游者伊文森正着迷于粗噪音。
14，坡•阿什勒•彼得森（Pål Asle Pettersen）也来自斯达万格，在那里，他是不同乐队的成员。他也创作个人的电子实验音乐。他也作为演出推手，在斯达万格安排实验噪音、电子乐、即兴音乐和当代古典音乐。这些不同流派的声音很容易可以在这个重新混音作品中听到。
拉瑟•芒骇（Lasse Marhaug）是挪威噪音音乐的领袖。从他少年时代就开始做噪音（用磁带录音机和AC/DC的磁带）。他现在专注且专业于噪音。他是挪威古典作曲家联合会中第一个不知道怎么写音乐的成员。他发表了几百张专辑，和黑金属乐手、古典作曲家、爵士和即兴音乐家合作过。他也是挪威的摇滚音乐节上的常客。
文字：彼昂•哈夫德鲁（Bjørn Hatterud）
翻译：颜峻
挪威语译名由李铁桥、卡婷卡协助翻译
原曲中文译文：
B：喂，请问是齐勒斯都鲁普吗？
M: 喵。
B：我叫彼昂•哈夫德鲁，啊，我打给你是因为你是一个有名的，嗯……有名的当代，当代古典音乐作曲家，有名的挪威当代古典音乐作曲家。嗯……我有几个问题想问你，你有时间回答吗？OK。
M：（怪声）
B：OK，等一下我把问题找出来。
B：（纸的声音）
B：嗯，作为一个挪威的当代古典音乐作曲家，或者说当代古典音乐家，的生活，是怎样的？
M：（怪声）
B：是，OK，但是嗯……让我吃惊的是，针对那些取得了成功、比一般人发达很多的作曲家，比如菲利普•格拉斯，国际上有一种批评，就好象他们是坏蛋一样。
M：（怪声）
B：OK，是，是，我明白了。嗯，好，这个，这么说，多样化的地下场景和，你作为一个作曲家，和它有什么样的联系？嗯……
M：（怪声）
B：OK，但是，有个有名的挪威作曲家，叫玛雅•罗德契，她也因为和这个圈子有联系而……
M：（尖叫）
B：……很有名。
M：（继续尖叫）
B：喂？很有名？
M：（怪声和尖叫）
B：喂！
M：哈呀！（怪声和尖叫）
B：（沉重的呼吸，挂了电话）
Norwegian original (accapella) version
M: Halloen
B: Hallo er det hos Kjelstrup?
M: Mjaaa
B: Det er Bjørn Hatterud som ringer, ehh ringer deg fordi at du er jo kjent ehh… kjent komponist, samtidskomponist, kjent norsk samtidskomponist
ehh… jeg har noen spørsmål til deg, har du tid til å svare på de?
M: *sound*
B: okei, et lite øyeblikk ska je finna spørsmåla
B: *sound of paper*
B: Altså, åssen er det på en måte å leve som samtidskomponist’a i Norge, eller samtidsmusikkutøver?
M: *sounds*
B: ja, okei men altså ehh… det som jo slår meg er at det er en sånn kritikk internasjonalt da mot de komponista som jo faktisk da lykkes i å slå igjennom blant folk, som Phillip Glass og sånn blir sett på som onde omtrent
M: *sounds*
B: Men, ehh. Men hvordan oppfatter du det da å være kvinne i en sånn mannsdominert sfære?
M: *sound*
B:okei ja, ja nettopp , ehhh altså, det finnes jo, skal jeg si, diverse alternative undergrunnsscener og sånne ting, hva slags kontakt har du som komponist i forhold til de, assa? ehh..
M: *sounds*
B: okei, men, det er en kjent norsk komponist som heter Maja Ratkje, som jo er også kjent for å ha en del kontakt da…
M: *screaming*
B: … med sånne miljøer
M: *continues screaming*
B: hallo? med sånne miljøer?
M; *sounds and screaming*
B: Hallo!
M: Halja! *sounds and screaming*
B: *Breathing heavy and hanging up the phone*
artists: V.A.
title: Ya Ji 3 Solveigs Lied
cata: kwanyinY 003
release: 2009
length:50′00”
basic design: Ruan Qianrui
package: Yan Jun, Ruan Qianrui, Xi Xi, Lao Yang, Xu Yazhu, Frankie Su, Wang Xuliang, Shi Yang + Wang Yingjiao, He Xiaoyu
Sub Jam / KwanYin Records edition: Limitied as 50 copies
track llist：
01 Maskinanlegg / Solveig Kjelstrup
02 Helene Rickhard
03 PK101
04 Center of The Universe
05 Evol
06 °OP_Bitchshift
07 Daniel Jerome
08 Barabass
09 NEKRO-XP
10 Tombe En Combat!
11 Torstein Wjiik
12 NACHT
13 Jan M. Iversen
14 Pål Asle Pettersen
about this album:
This is a remix album. Original track was provided by Maskinanlegg / Solveig Kjelstrup. 13 Norwegian musicians / bands made remix works in different styles. Maskinanlegg is solo project of Bjørn Hatterud who is initiator of this project. Solveig Kjelstrup is famous Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje’s alias.
This album is released by 10 indie lables around the world. They release own CDr in different number of copies, different cover / package design and different distribution slots.
Ya: elegant, gentle, refined
Ji: meeting, party, gathering
Ya Ji: a gentle meeting of music, art and intellect
Sub Jam /KwanYin Records invited 10 past and present colleagues to make package for this special join-release individually. Their identities are ambiguous: owner of music shop, graphic designer, music critic, DIY designer, curator, artist assistant, unemployed… The only consistency is they are together here with the lable, labour for music they love. Therefore this is a gentle meeting of staff behind the scenes as well.
Ya: elegant, gentle, refined
Ji: meeting, party, gathering
Ya Ji: a gentle meeting of music, art and intellect
All tracks (except 01 and 07) mastered by Lasse Marhaug
contact adresses:
Maskinanlegg: http://www.myspace.com/maskinanlegg
Solveig Kjelstrup: http://www.myspace.com/majaratkje
Helene Rikchard: http://www.myspace.com/rickhardhelene
pk10: http://www.myspace.com/pk101
Center of the Universe: http://www.myspace.com/Bagpiperatthegatesofdawn
Evol: http://www.myspace.com/weloveevol
°OP_Bitschshift: http://www.myspace.com/opbitchshift
Daniel Jerome: http://www.myspace.com/danieljeromestar
Barabass: http://www.myspace.com/happyfew,
Nekro-XP: http://www.myspace.com/nekroxp
Tombe en Combat!: http://www.myspace.com/theemarbleindextombeencombat
Torstein Wjiik: http://www.myspace.com/torsteinwjiik
NCHT: http://www.myspace.com/ncht
Iversen: http://www.myspace.com/tibprod
Pål Asle Pettersen: http://www.myspace.com/plaslepettersen
Lasse Marhaug: http://www.lassemarhaug.no/
These lables joined together for release:
Sub Jam/Kwanyin: http://www.subjam.org
Quagga Curious Sounds: http://www.myspace.com/quaggacurioussoundsandoddities
Teen Action Records: www.myspace.com/teenactionrecords
Stront Tapes: http://www.myspace.com/odalnoise
Heilskaabaal: http://www.heilskabaal.net/
TIB-prod: http://www.bek.no/~tibprod/
How is Annie Records: http://www.howisannierecords.com/
Ambolthue Records: http://www.ambolthue.com/
October Party Records: http://www.myspace.cn/octoberparty
Shasha Records: http://www.noishanghai.org/shasha/
Megaeldar records: megaeldar@hotmail.com
Introduction of artists:
01 Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje is one of Norways most famous classical contemporary composers, whos work has been peroformed and given awards around the world. She is also a member of the noise band Fe-mail, the impro band SPUNK, a solo vocal impro artist, a vocalist with jazz bands, has worked with black metallers, sung in a country band and remixed and sung with pop bands.
Maskinanlegg is the trash industry/noise project of Bjørn Hatterud. He has made a ton of CDr releases on more or less obscure labels all over the world. He sees Maskinanlegg as a art project more than a music project, with the aim of having fun with traditional borders between high art and popular culture, exploring esthetic similarity between outsider muic, lowbrow pop and avant garde extremes.
02 Helene Rickhard is the daughter of a celebrated Norwegian artist, making her used to having queen Sonja of Norway as a visitor when she was a child. Helene is member for the Mikrodiscomovement, with lot’s of young musicians making music with Nintendo machines and other low-fi digital equipment. Her remixed version of the song also has a music video made to it, try to find it at youtube…
03 PK 101 is Per Kristian Nordnes, who is also a part of the Mikrodiscomovement. Originally desending from the far north of Norway, he grew up with light nights in the summertime, and dark day in the winter. Per Kristian has made lot’s of music as a solo artitst. When he made his mix he had been living more or less isolated for years in a old house in the countryside outside of Bergen, Norway. His mix is entirely made of samples from the original a cappella version.
04 Center of the Universe is one of the many projects of Jørgen Sissyfus Skjulstad. Beening the master mind behind Norways most famous CDr record label Metronomicon Records, which has released some of the most critically acclaimed albums of Norwegian underground pop the last ten years. Skjulstad is also a multiinstrumentalist, a good musician with a love for obscure songs and strange rythms, making Center of the Universe well known for a crazy mix of exotic tunes from eastern europe, indie pop and club music.
05 Evol is a one man project from Berlin, Germany, exploring the dark landscapes between dub, club and inustry. He made this dark dub mix in a period of grief over his fathers death. Beening a favorite of DJ Hell Evol was represented on International Deejay’s CD number ten.
06 °OP_Bitchshift is a also based in Berlin, Germany. The band is the project of Bend McPherson, releasing LPs and CDs about fucking girls (most of the trax at least), to hard electro rythms. A noteable act on the incredible hip Berlin scene.
07 Daniel Jerome’s real name is Daniel Andersen, he comes from a town in the extremely religious south-western part of Norway.. He has taken the name Daniel Jerome from one of the members of the german cult group the Kelly Family. Daniel loves putting on make-up, performing songs about his lost boy-friends, and other essential parts of gay life, to self made music. In his remix he has put in some lyrics in the Norwegian dialect Trødersk, the dialect from the area where Maja Solveig Kjelstrup Ratkje comes from. In the song he pretends to be Solveig Kjelstrup.
08 Barabass is member of the band Barabass & the Happy Few, from Bergen, Norway. Normally making extremely happy rock music, as a solo artist Barabass here has found his scissors and cut the a cappella version into small pieces, making them dance around a ground beat. Barabas was the bad guy people wanted to survive instead of Jesus Christ. I don’t know why the artist has chosen such a name.
09 Nekro-XP is one of the rising stars in Norwegian Noise Culture. Making minimal and repitative noise, but with samples of concrete material as voices etc. his sound is industrial, dark, gothic and politically incorrect. Nekro means death. What the X & P means I really don’t know…
10 Tombe en Combat! is a band from Oslo, Norway. They are two impro artists called Øystein and Øistein (sic!!!) with one microphone. They have no track on time when they start playing, so the original version of this mix was more than 20 minutes long. It was cut down partly by putting different parts of the mix in different speakers. Tombe en Combat! wasn’t asked if that was OK, so don’t tell them about it!
11 Torstein Wjiik is the alter ego of Kjetil Hansen. He is a noise musician who is also one of the youngest record company leaders in Norway, running the company “Ambolthue”. He is hyper active, in periodes releasing many releases with himself and other artists (mostly other artists) every week. His speciality is a combining of absurd humor and harsh, extreme noise, and although he just turned 20 has made visible marks in noise culture in Norway.
12 Ncht is Tania Steine who is a Norwegian artist, working with everything from foto and video to paintings and installations. She also made the style and genre grounding covers of Norwegian black metal bands like Darkthrone, Thorns, Satyricon, Burzum, Emperor during the early years of Norwegian black metal (the years of murders and church burning). One of her projects the last years have been “Ravn” (Norwegian for raven) together with, to name one, Lasse Marhaug. You can clearly hear her inspiration from shamanism and Norwegian nature….
13 Iversen is short for Jan Morten Iversen. He runs TIB-prod (who also releases this remix album), a very good label that has realeased more than 100 albums with good, mainly Norwegian, noise. He lives in Hafrsfjord, near Stavanger, a city made rich on Norwegian oil. (Norway is the second largest producer of oil in the world, and much of it runs through Stavanger in one way or another.) Hafrsfjord is also famous for beeing a place of wars between vikings. No wander Iversen is into harsh noise.
14 Pål Asle Pettersen is also from Stavanger, where he has been part of different bands. He has also made solo releases of electronic experimental music. He also is a concert promoter for concerts with experimental noise, electronica, impro and contemporary classical music in Stavanger. And the sounds of these different genres are easily heard in the remix.
Lasse Marhaug is the guru of Norwegian Noise Music. Making noise since his early teens (then with a tape recorder and AC/DC tapes). He is now a professional working only with noise. He is the first member of the Norwegian Classical Composers Union that doesn’t know how to read or write music. He has released a couple of hundred albums, and has worked with black metallers, classical composer, jazz and impro artists. And is a popular act on Norwegian rock festivals.
Text by Bjørn Hatterud
Original version in English:
B:Hello, do I speak with Kjelstrup?
M: Mjaa
B: It is Bjørn Hatterud calling, ehh calling you because you a famous ehhh…. famous composer, composer of contemporary classical music, famous Norwegian composer of contemporary classical music. ehh.. I’ve got a few questiones for you, do you have time to answer? OK
M: *sound*
B: OK, one moment and I’ll find the questions
B: *sound of paper*
B: Well, how is it sort of to live like a classical contemporary composer in Norway, or classical contemporary musician?
M: *sounds*
B: Yes, OK but so ehh… the thing that strikes me is that there is such a criticism internationally against the composers that actually succeed in getting a break through amongst the people, like Phillip Glass and such often are seen as almost evil
M: *sounds*
B: Ok yes, yes I see, ehhh well, there is this, to put it, various alternative underground scenes and such, what kind of contact do you as a composer have with them, assa? Ehh…
M: *sounds*
B: OK but, there is a famous Norwegian composer called Maja Ratkje, who also is famous for having some contact…
M: *screaming*
B: … with such circles
M: *continues screaming*
B: hello? with such circles?
M: *Sounds and screaming*
B: Hallo!
M: Halja! *sounds and screaming*
B: *Breathing heavy and hanging up the phone*
Jean Jacques Palix、David Coulter、颜峻 – 雅集 2
Jean Jacques Palix, David Coulter,Yan Jun – Yaji 2
艺人：Jean Jacques Palix (巴黎)、David Coulter（伦敦）、颜峻（北京）
标题：雅集2
编号：kwanyin Y002
发行日期：2008
长度：45分
设计：阮千瑞
曲目：
1. 7’53”
2. 11’16”
3. 8’59”
4. 17’32”
介绍：
1 唱片内容是众艺人的巴黎演出现场，时间为2007年3月19日。
Jean Jacques Palix是法国老一代电子原音音乐家；David Coulter是跨越工业（Test Dept）、摇滚（Pogues）、古典（Kronos Quartet）和流行乐领域（Tom Waits、Leonard Cohen、NickCave）的英国音乐家；颜峻是活跃的中国声音艺术家、乐评人和诗人。
2 雅：优雅，温和，高雅；集：邂逅，相聚，汇集；雅集：一次舒缓的邂逅，与音乐、艺术和智慧有关。
3 雅集是撒把芥末/观音唱片新的出版系列，致力于不同文化、地域和背景的音乐合作、交流。这个名字，来自中国古代的文人聚会，琴棋书画，诗词唱和，属于生活而无”艺术活动”之概念；但今天的”雅”和精英身份无关，它和聚会、交流的品质有关，和生活的纯度有关。
摄影：Suzanne Nagy
感谢: Eric Maurin for sound recording and Eve Couturier
链接：
Jean Jacques Palix
http://jjpalix.free.fr/news.htm
David Coulter
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=46537201
颜峻：
http://www.yanjun.org
http://www.myspace.com/yanjunyanjun
artists: Jean Jacques Palix, David Coulter, Yan Jun
title: Yaji2
cata: kwanyinY 002
release: 2008
length:45’00”
design：Ruan qian rui
Track list：
1. 7’53”
2. 11’16”
3. 8’59”
4. 17’32”
about this album:
1 Live at The 64, Paris, 19 May 2007
Jean Jacques Palix is a respectable French electro-acoustic musician of the old generation; David Coulter is a brilliant British musicianand instrumentalist who had collaborated with many genres of musiciansfrom industrial (Test Dept), rock(Pogues), classical (Kronos Quartet)to pop (Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave); Yan Jun is an active Chinese sound artist, critic and poet.
2 Ya: elegant, gentle, refined
Ji: meeting, party, gathering
Ya Ji: a gentle meeting of music, art and intelle
3 YaJi, a new Subjam/Kwanyin record series, is dedicated to the music collaboration across cultures, regions and backgrounds. The name has derived from tradtional Chinese gentlemen’s(Ya) salon(Ji) that involved music intruments, chess, calligrahy, paintings, poems and verses etc. The concept mainly deals with life instead of artistic activities.
Photo : Suzanne Nagy
Thanks : Eric Maurin for sound recording and Eve Couturier
link：
Jean Jacques Palix
http://jjpalix.free.fr/news.htm
David Coulter
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=46537201
Yan jun：
http://www.yanjun.org
http://www.myspace.com/yanjunyanjun
白天，Relapxych.0 / 安德斯·皮特森，循环乐团，柿子 – 雅集 1
Bai Tian, relapxych.0 / Anders Peterson, The Loop Orchestra, Shizi – Yaji 1
艺人：白天， relapxych.0 / Anders Peterson, The Loop Orchestra, 柿子
标题：雅集1
编号：kwanyin Y001
发行日期：2008
长度：55分46秒
设计：阮千瑞
曲目：
01，白天，Relapxych.0 / 安德斯·皮特森，循环乐团，柿子 – 雅集（16’03”）
02，白天 – 进入（4’30”）
03，relapxych.0 / 安德斯·皮特森 – 失眠行动 0-3版（12’24”）
04，循环乐团 – 颤动循环（9’04”）
05，背景噪音混音安德斯·皮特森 – 背景之阴影（8’31”）
06，柿子 – EXP（5’15”）
介绍：
1 唱片内容来自白天（中国）、relapxych.0 / 安德斯·皮特森（瑞典）、The Loop Orchestra（澳大利亚）和柿子（中国）的远距离合作。
2 雅：优雅，温和，高雅；集：邂逅，相聚，汇集；雅集：一次舒缓的邂逅，与音乐、艺术和智慧有关。
3 雅集是撒把芥末/观音唱片新的出版系列，致力于不同文化、地域和背景的音乐合作、交流。这个名字，来自中国古代的文人聚会，琴棋书画，诗词唱和，属于生活而无”艺术活动”之概念；但今天的”雅”和精英身份无关，它和聚会、交流的品质有关，和生活的纯度有关。
链接：
Bai Tian（白天）：
baitian.iblog.com/
relapxych.0:
www.myspace.com/relapxych0acoustics
The Loop Orchestra：
www.thelooporchestra.com
Shiz（柿子）：
http://shizneo.spaces.live.com/
http://us.profile.myspace.cn/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=26380638
artists: Bai Tian, relapxych.0 / Anders Peterson, The Loop Orchestra, Shizi
title: Yaji 1
cata: kwanyin Y001
release:2008
length：55’46”
design：Ruan Qianrui
Track list:
01 Bai Tian, relapxych.0 / Anders Peterson, The Loop Orchestra, Shizi – Ya Ji (16’03”)
02 Bai Tian – In (4’30”)
03 relapxych.0 – Insomniactivity 0-3 Edit (12’24”)
04 The Loop Orchestra – Vibraloops (9’04”)
05 The Loop Orchestra Remixes Objekt4 – Background Shadows (8’31”)
06 Shiz – EXP (5’15”)
note：
1 Ya: elegant, gentle, refined
Ji: meeting, party, gathering
Ya Ji: a gentle meeting of music, art and intelle
2 a remote collaboration piece created by Bai Tian (CN), relapxych.0 / Anders Peterson(SE), The Loop Orchestra (AU) and Shizi (CN).
3 YaJi, a new Subjam/Kwanyin record series, is dedicated to the music collaboration across cultures, regions and backgrounds. The name has derived from tradtional Chinese gentlemen’s(Ya) salon(Ji) that involved music intruments, chess, calligrahy, paintings, poems and verses etc. The concept mainly deals with life instead of artistic activities.
link：
Bai Tian
baitian.iblog.com/
Insomniactivity 0-3 Edit:
www.myspace.com/relapxych0acoustics
The Loop Orchestra：
www.thelooporchestra.com
Shiz：
http://shizneo.spaces.live.com/
http://us.profile.myspace.cn/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=26380638
PRESS RELEASE:
Ya Ji (Elegant Meeting)
A truly International sound project between China, Sweden and Australia. Proving that experimental music is very much acultural. The artists involved are Bai Tian from and currently lives in Chengdu (Sichuan province) and Shizi from Lanzhou (now lives in Beijing) in China , Anders Peterson from Stockholm and The Loop Orchestra from Sydney. The Artists have remixed each other’s work and these remixes are joined together to make up the 16 minute collaborative first track. Sound files were exchanged through the Internet. So it is a real cross-cultural/international sound project and in that respect it is unique. The other tracks on the CD are pieces by each of the artists.
The CD is released on the Chinese label KwanYin Records which is under the Sub Jam (www.subjam.org) collective from Beijing . All of the Artwork, CD production and final mastering was done in China.
The music ranges from the sound journey of the first collaborative track , Ya Ji, through to the beautiful final slowly unfolding piece by Shizi . The 16 minute collaboration is in four separate chapters. The first is a collaboration between Bai Tian and Anders Peterson. The second is a remix by The Loop Orchestra of the collaboration. The Loop Orchestra remix is then remixed by Shizi. The piece is really like a sound journey from minimal beats which become buried by dronal loops and finally slowly collapsing into the abyss.
The second track , In , by Bai Tian is a bright crisp digital electronic piece which references the heyday of European digital electronica of the late 90s.
Track three, insomniactivity is by relapxych.0 (Anders Peterson from Stockholm, Sweden). It is a marriage of instrumentation and electronica.
The next piece (track four), Vibraloops, by The Loop Orchestra is a colourful and humourous tape-loop rendition of a 1940s/50s vibraphone orchestra. Full of kitsch and colour it is beautifully percussive and opposite to the previous piece is very much low technology or as they like to say a category called No Tech. Purely tape loops played on reel-to-reel tape machines.
Track five, Background Shadows is a radio studio remix of the CD Her Face Amongst the Shadows by Objekt4 (the previous sound project of Anders Peterson). The remix is by John Blades and Richard Fielding who co-present the experimental radio program Background Noise on 2 mbs FM in Sydney. For this they used the radio studio as an instrument. Listen at www.anonradio.net .
The final track, track six is by Shizi and is a layered drone piece which is like being consumed by a thick fog. A very appropriate closing to the elegant meeting.
The whole CD can really be described as a sound journey with a beginning, a middle and an end.
THE ARTISTS:
Anders Peterson (relapxych.0)
After working for many years with sound design, film music, sound recording, mastering / remastering, acoustic design and also as a musician (guitars / bass) I eventually found the most rewarding personal experience from the sounds of nature (water, wind, fire, earth), with its endless variation and amazing organic qualities, constantly evolving, and by capturing (recording) ambience from certain places I finally obtained sounds that had massive potential to be truly *original* and *unique* to myself. The next step was to combine these recordings with musical instruments and “approaches”, combining harmonics and “body” from musical instruments with the organic flow and constantly varying rhythms of for example dripping water, gusts of wind or cracking ice, through digitally coded cross-synthesis, hybrid sounds carefully sculptured by hand. Creating musical ambience instead of ambient music.
www.ghostsounds.net
Bai Tian (aka Bai+ian) is a emerging sound artist, flute player and organizer of independent music based in Chengdu, China. He plays in a wide range of styles such as ambient, cut’n'paste and electronic music etc. He has performed with Chinese and international artists such as Huan Qing, Zafka, Zbignew Karkowski and Li Chin Sung. He has participated in exhibitions such as 156M Contemporary Art Exhibition (Chengdu), Getitlouder (Chengdu) and China Power Station (London).
www.myspace.com/baiii
Shizi was born in Lanzhou, China in 1984. He is a drummer, and improvised music player. As member of “Noise Association of Lanzhou” he started his underground music career in the late 1990′s. He has worked with more than 10 bands/projects with different styles. Once he moved to Beijing for university in 2003, he started to work in the palm of electronic/experimental and improv music. Now he is studying sound design at Beijing Film Academy.
www.myspace.com/shiziofnoise
The Loop Orchestra was formed in 1982 by Richard Fielding and John Blades. It is a collective of reel-to-reel tape machines which are approximately 30 to 35 years old. The reel-to-reel tape machines play lengths of quarter inch tape joined into loops of varying size onto which sound is recorded from various sources. This methodology is historically significant in the history of electronic music from the 1950s. The loops are mixed together to create a layered and slowly evolving soundscape. They have had CD and record releases in Australia and Europe since their first release (the LP record Suspense) in 1991. There are currently five members: John Blades, Richard Fielding, Manny Gasparinatos, Hamish Mackenzie and Juke Wyatt. The Members for this recording were John Blades, Richard Fielding, Manny Gasparinatos and Patrick Gibson. For information and a full list of performances and releases visit
www.thelooprchestra.com.
颜峻、Isan、718、Isambard Khroustaliov、Zafka – 美术馆音乐（Céline Condorelli与支撑结构策划的艺术项目）
Yan Jun, Isan, 718, Isambard Khroustaliov, Zafka – Music For Museum (an art project by Céline Condorelli & Support Structure)
标题：美术馆音乐
艺人：颜峻、Isan、718、Isambard Khroustaliov（Icarus）、Zafka
编号：kwanyin 028
发行日期：2008
长度：1小时4分39秒/47分40秒
设计：Celine Condorelli
曲目:
CD 1
1 颜峻 – 树和大堂的音乐 (15:35)
2 Isan – 画廊的音乐 (16:27)
3 718 – 卫生间的音乐 (15:00)
4 Isambard Khroustaliov – 书店的音乐 (12:59)
5 静默 (4:33)
CD 2
6 Zafka – 咖啡厅的音乐 (15:00)
7 718 – 办公室的音乐 (15:00)
8 718 – 放映厅的音乐 (13:04)
9 静默 (4:33)
介绍：本cd每曲均专门为美术馆空间而设计，在相应空间低音量循环播放，低于谈话音量。当使用单独的音响系统时，“美术馆音乐”应该被随机播放，这样就可以包括一段必要的沉默，它被设定为类似如第5曲及第9曲（休止）
备注：
1 唱片封面的艺人名字“Icarus”是曲目说明中“Isambard Khroustaliov”的别名
2 本唱片在概念上与《购物乐》（Kwanyin 024）相关联。《购物乐》是2007年大声展委托支撑结构和王辉创作的作品，由颜峻、718、Zafka创作音乐。
链接：
Isan
www.isan.co.uk/
www.myspace.com/isanmusic
www.morrmusic.com/
Isambard Khroustaliov
http://www.icarus.nu
http://www.differance.org
http://www.not-applicable.org
http://www.squintoperamusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/tedmiltonodes
颜峻
www.yanjun.org
www.myspace.com/yanjunyanjun
www.subjam.org
Zafka
http://zafka.iblog.com/
http://www.soundzafka.com/
celine condorelli / support structure
www.supportstructure.org
title: Music For Museum
artists: 718, Isan, Isambard khroustaliov (aka Icarus), Yan Jun, Zafka
cata: kwanyin 028
release: 2008
length: 1:04’39” / 47’40”
design: Celine Condorelli
Track list:
CD 1
1 Yan Jun – Music for Trees & Lobby (15:35)
2 Isan – Music for Gallery (16:27)
3 718 – Music for Bathroom (15:00)
4 Isambard Khroustaliov – Music for Bookshop (12:59)
5 Tacet (4:33)
CD 2
6 Zafka – Music for Cafe (15:00)
7 718 – Music for Office (15:00)
8 718 – Music for Cinema (13:04)
9 Tacet (4:33)
about this album：Each track on this cd has been designed specifically for a museum space.and is to be played on loop in its corresponding space at low volume,below voice level.On one system,Music for museum is to be played on shuffle so as to include a necessary silence,programmed as tracks 5 and 9(TACET)
note:
1 artist name Icarus on CD cover is actually Isambard Khroustaliov’s alias which has show on the track list.
2 this album is conceptually related to Music For Shopping Malls (Kwanyin 024), another music-art work by Support Structure and Wang Hui with music of Yan Jun, 718 and Zafka commissioned by GetItLouder 07.
link:
Isan
www.isan.co.uk/
www.myspace.com/isanmusic
www.morrmusic.com/
Isambard Khroustaliov
http://www.icarus.nu
http://www.differance.org
http://www.not-applicable.org
http://www.squintoperamusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/tedmiltonodes
Yan Jun
www.yanjun.org
www.myspace.com/yanjunyanjun
www.subjam.org
Zafka
http://zafka.iblog.com/
http://www.soundzafka.com/
celine condorelli / support structure
www.supportstructure.org
review:
Like Brian Eno´s ground-breaking but seldom-used “Music for Airports”, this two CD set was designed for play not only in a specific site – the museum – but in specific rooms in that structure – the lobby, gallery, bookshop, cafe, and even the bathroom. The printed instructions (again echoing Eno) make clear that the music should be played low, below the level of normal conversation, and that the CD player ought to be set on shuffle mode to include the “necessary” 4´33″ of silence appended as the closing track on each disc. This has to do with some kind of fuzzy conceptual tie-in with John Cage and his plans to sell “silence” to the Muzak Corporation.
Each track is about a quarter of an hour long. On the first disc, Yan Jun guides you through the tree lined walkway and into the lobby, which all sounds very much like wending your way through a gigantic wind chime ringing at random intervals. Coats hung up and guide books at the ready, we enter the main gallery where Isan provide an appropriately unobtrusive soundtrack that rises and judders at times, eventually becoming rather intrusive – but eminently listenable. The always delicious 718 create an exquisitly frothy backdrop to – the bathroom. Isambard Khroustaliov provides the final soundtrack, this one for the bookstore. Its tiny, telegraphic sounds sound like the neurons of the brain firing as interested customers peruse the content of the volumes on sale.
Disc two begins with Zafka, aka Zhang Anding, whose more freak-outable side playing with his improv collective The Wedding Beast can be heard on the challenging Kwan Yin collection “Noise is Free: Mini Midi 2008″. Zafka´s piece is so busily narrative compared to the others that it hits you like a blast of technocolour panavision at a black-and-white silent movie festival. But then again he has been given the task of soundtracking the cafeteria. Two more tracks by 718 bubble out of the deep blue sea, breach the surface and take to the air in a more customary ambient fashion.
A high concept album which surely would enhance the ambience of any exhibition space, while doubling for peaceful enjoyment at home.
718 and Zafka also appear on “Music for Shopping Malls”, but despite their exquisite efforts, I wonder if it is not Yan Jun whose inaptly named “4th Ring Shopping Killer” is not the sweetest piece of the seventy-odd minutes within. Concludes with four several short, idiosyncratic loops intended for repeat, extended play. Would that retailers would take the authors´ implicit advice and use them to replace the usual gloppy Muzak in our boutiques and shopping centres.
–Stephen Fruitman (http://sonomu.net/)