2pi Images

by Ben

A few pictures and links from the 2pi Festival 2007 in Hangzhou last month, to get us up to speed…

Welcome to Hangzhou, city of mystery…
Hangzhou, as viewed from the Liu He Pagoda

Torturing Nurse performed as a threesome: Jia Die (on the left, in red), Junky (on the table), and Xu Cheng (rightmost blur).
Torturing Nurse captured in mid-flail

Junky operated a contact miced piece of sheet metal.
Junky and sheet metal

Xu Cheng occupied himself with the electronics.
Xu Cheng and electronics

Jia Die vocalized.
Jia Die on the mic

Canadian filmmaker and noise artist Zev Asher filmed the event for an upcoming documentary.
Zev filming Junky

An abstract image flickered on the wall in sync with a pulse generator.
The blue screen of Torturing Nurse

The set concluded with Jia Die and Junky convulsing on the floor.
Jia Die and Junky conclude their set

Walnut Room’s Li Zenghui cycled through the entire family of saxophones.
Walnut Room’s Li Zenghui

Hong Qi Le and Zheng Shi Jia from Fuzhou played the harshest and noisiest set of the festival.
Hong Qi Le and Zheng Shi Jia

Joao Vasco’s set featured sounds and images from field recordings.
Joao Vasco’s real-time video

itta (half of 10) trounced about the room, making herself at home in the crowd,
itta at play

encouraging the audience to sing along with her,
itta gazing at the ceiling

and busying herself with an array of red toys and gadgets.
itta trouncing

The crowd was of a healthy size, mostly young and Chinese, about the same as last year, I’d estimate.
Crowd at 2pi 2007




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