IOS blog launched

by lawrence

I’ve been working with Ou Ning and Yan Jun on the Battersea project lately. The three of us plus all the current and future participants will operate as “Institute of Sound”, which is:

a long-term research group focused on the study, composing, presenting and publishing of geo-sonic phenomena. The group consists of sound artists, field-recordists, architects keen on exploring the relationship between sound and physical spaces, and writers interested in the sociological aspect of sound phenomena. With its “sound-as-the-sole-medium” approach, IOS tends to perceive and reflect upon our world with all the non-aural senses shutting down. By collecting and manipulating daily sounds, it attempts to explore the possibilities of sonic narration and the relationship between sound phenomena and the complex social reality. IOS encourages more field-recordists to collect environmental soundscape in China on a regular basis, so as to establish a large-volume sound archive. It will also experiment with alternative modes of distribution and promotion different from those of traditional music industry, such as the Internet as the platform of a larger-scale sharing of sound resources. (Text by Ou Ning, translated by Lawrence Li.)

We’ve set up a blog for IOS, everything will be bilingual (Chinese and English).




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