★Sub Jam
Oh My God, And Yours
*Edition of 200. Mirror cover, transparent vynil* "Beautiful release on Yan Jun’s Sub Jam label. Toshimaru Nakamura was the first one that I ever saw using a no-input mixer, already in the 1990s. What exactly Yan Jun’s open-input feedback means, I am not sure, but I love the noise coming from both! Some sounds are as if they come from distorted guitar, I hear earth hums and glitches, there are a lot of different dynamics and small events in the pieces, but all in all it’s enervating music that a…
The News Trilogy / Revolution Songs in an AI Environment
Nicholas Bussmann was born in 1970 and is a very diversified artist. He first made a name for himself in the real-time music scene as an improvisational instrumentalist, then he devoted himself to electronic music and now he moves quite freely between artistic styles. His works are usually highly praised and are mostly part of exhibitions or other types of total artworks.The News Triology fills the first page of this work and is thus the first part of this extraordinary project released on vinyl…
Music Will Ruin Everything
*300 copies limited edition* "the very reason i initiated this project was vanished in time. however, it’s not very long time since it has suspending into this “physical object is dying” and “society is dying” situation. and it’s long enough to coming back with ideas of “connecting objects and bodies over language” and “connecting an outer territory”. so i have diving back to the files again, starting editing and translating, inviting few more physical entities and fortunately yihao joined as de…
7 Poems And Some Tinnitus
Hsia Yu is a legend in Taiwan’s poetry scene. She is one the most influential figures of youth subculture for decades. Under several pen names such as Li Gedi, she is also one of the top lyrics writers in the Mandarin pop music scene. She publishes her poetry only on her own independent label. Yan Jun is a Beijing based musician and poet. In later 90’s and early 00’s he was a key figure in China’s underground rock scene as music critic. Since early 00’s he works on the margin of music with field…
Anti Social Realism
*In process of stocking* Anti Social Realism (2012: Bilbao, Stockholm, Lausanne). Mattin in collaboration with Oier Iruretagoiena, Marcelo Expósito, Germán Navarro, Santiago Mostyn and members of the audience at LUFF festival. Length: 116’30”; all-region; subtitle in French, Spanish, English and Chinese
1) Nobody Answered, Club Le Larraskito, Bilbao, February, 11th February 2012; 24’28”2) The Audience Is Not The Mother of Self-Invention, Index, Stockholm, 29th September 2012; 59’39”3) An Audienc…
Truth, Exercise For A Listener
*In process of stocking* The score for ‘Truth, exercise for a listener’ comprises a catalogue of options for a musical performer. In four parts each focusing on a different facet of our faculty to listen, it offers open ended material for the performer to deal with; sounding actions, silent actions, still actions, moving actions, interpretative actions. All can be selected, combined, omitted or extended at will. Multiple exercises can happen simultaneously. In a general sense the piece is an at…
Voice
*In process of stocking* "Recordings made between 1992 and 2014. Some tracks have been previously released (many on limited editions), many tracks are unreleased or have not appeared in these versions.play loud!thanks to yan jun, mei zhiyong and all who helped with my tour of “sonic rituals” 2014. Animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men. The despair of our culture and civilisation should be d…
Otomo Yoshihide, Ryu Hankil, Yuen Chee Wai, Yan Jun, Sachiko M, Yang Ge, Xiao Qiang, Hong Qile, Gogo J, Olivier Heux, Tao Yi, Junyuan
Big Can*In process of stocking* "There was this large, abandoned, cylindrical metal object, maybe an oil tank. In 2009, several people cam to the site and made some noise. They were Otomo Yoshihide, Ryu Hankil, Yuen Cheewai, Yan Jun, Sachiko M, Yang Ge, Xian Qiang, Hong Qile, Gogo J, Olivier Heux and Junyuan. The sounds chosen are refreshingly non-obvious, no fist-banging on the interior walls. There are soft clocks and drips as well as a number of sustained sounds–whistling, moaning, keening–that don’…
Noise As A Language
“So the point is that so much words existing, and we get better and better to use them for hiding the truth. You can use sound in the same way, stimulating some nice and warm feeling in middle of chaos, but from time to time we all should stimulate strictness, clearness, intensity, directness, set free some anger to bring up the basic truth of our present. Noise can be seen as the chance to go into the back of things, as a therapy which is able to confront ourselves with others lesser good looki…
I Know How You Frown
*In process of stocking* A brilliant contemporary improvised music work. subtle and flickered. Toshimaru Nakamura is one of the main figures of Japan new impro music. a master of no-input mix border. a philosopher and technician. Nicholas Bussmann is Berlin based musician and improviser. he sets MAX/msp on a high value of random to let computer impro itself.