Two live recordings of Helmut Schäfer

by lawrence

Randy Yau of 23five has uploaded two live tracks of the late Helmut Schäfer to the 23five Live Archive page, which also features live recordings of Scott Arford, Edwin van der Heide, Zbigniew Karkowski and Paul DeMarinis.

Related: In Memory of Helmut Schäfer (1969 - 2007)




(Extra)ordinary sayings about sound #13

by lawrence

‘……I’ll include links to three sites that everyone who knows anything at all about free improv is familiar with: Metamkine, Erstwhile and Sound 323—they were in the Wire years ago, for goodness sakes—a magazine which features pop artists like Fennesz, PanSonic and Ryoji Ikeda.’

- Du Yisa, in response to a post on Danwei.org, May 26, 2007




Quick review of Mini MIDI 2007 - Day One

by lawrence

1. Dead J

The music is good, as always. Beijing has a strong and active electronica scene which is often mistaken as an ‘experimental’ one.

2. Zhou Risheng

‘But allow me, sir, to say that your performance didn’t fail to summon in the experienced ear its love for well-crafted sound, its care for painstaking attention of details and a feeling that the advancement of Chinese sound art as a whole always needs persistent, meticulous endeavour. Your efforts in their own way will for ever remain a salutary influence.’

3. nara + Xiao Wei

Some people might think that the set was a mismatch and should be filed to some of the other five stages of MIDI Festival, but I guess the curator has decided to include them for a change. Being melody-focused, however, doesn’t necessarily grant you higher musicianship than the noise makers.

4. Tieguanyin Duo (Yan Jun’s misc. sounds and Wu Na’s Guqin)

The sound from other stages had rendered the set as Tieguanyin Solo—with Wu Na being the soloist.

5. Justin Zhong Minjie

Go buy his CDs (here), none of Justin’s concerts does him justice as a keen sonic experimentalist.

6. Jackson Garland

I missed half of it. The latter half left little impression.

7. Wu Quan

Ditto.

8. Lin Zhiying

The best act of the day. Very clever use of recognizable sound (laughter), which effectively induced subtle response from the audience. It’s a slap in the face of those who doubt or frown at the idea of using found sounds, and especially human-generated sounds, in live performance.

9. Jan Jelinek feat. Kosmischer Pitch

I’ve chosen to pass on this one.

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Actually there won’t be review, quick or lengthy, on Day Two and Three—I didn’t go today and I’ll be on the first plane to Guiyang (if you don’t know where that is, you probably don’t need to know) tomorrow morning. This is gonna be a brief ‘unplugged’ period as we are going to a remote rural area with no electricity. That’s right, no blogging, Twittering, Flickring, RSS-ing, Emailing, Down/Uploading……See you in five days.

Oh, here are some photos of Day One, only five photos in fact. (Update: there are twelve now.)




[ADMIN] GNO server maintenance

by lawrence

Our server maintenance will start in two hours, so will Mini MIDI 2007, I wonder if it’s coincidental.

Anyway, here are the maintenance dates/times as sent to us by the hosting company:

  • First window: Monday, April 30th 2007 11:00 PM - Tuesday, May 1st 2007, 2:30 AM PDT
  • Second window: Thursday, May 3rd 2007 11:00 PM - Friday, May 4th 2007, 2:30 AM PDT

Rest assure that it’s not another server breakdown if you can’t access GNO in the above timeframe.




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