http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno sound.tech.media.future Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:26:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A very quick note to let everyone know that the BBC is currently streaming a two-part special devoted to Chinese new music on their "Hear and Now" program's website. Presenter Robert Worby and producer Philip Tagney were in town in April to poke around, and they met up with Junky of ... http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/2008/06/26/chinese-new-music-on-the-bbc/ Randy H.Y. Yau has assembled a set of nice photos on his Flickr page. This one by Joe Colley is my favourite. Randy captioned it as such: 'Last picture taken of Helmut together with Zbigniew at his home in Graz, Austria. Helmut's unique energy is captured in his expression here. Joe ... http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/2008/04/21/first-anniversary-of-helmut-schafers-death/ China Incidental: Production Consumption Interpretation Artists: Yan Jun 颜峻, Zhong Minjie 钟敏杰, Lin Zhiying 林志英, Hitlike (Zhang Liming 张立明). Royal Festival Hall London, 18th - 28th April Curated by Matthias Kispert A slice of contemporary China that is not seen but heard, presented through the work of some of China’s leading experimental artists, ... http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/2008/04/17/event-china-incidental/ Quick blurb to let everyone know about a show going down tomorrow night in Shanghai called RESO: Reconstruct the Experimental Soundscape of Ourselves. It's being organized by Mai Mai 卖卖 from the noise rock band Musclesnog (with whom Torturing Nurse's Junky sat in on vocals and guitar last weekend ... http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/2008/04/11/reso-show-tomorrow/ December 16, 2007 Today’s concert was arranged by Super Sonic China, which Little Snow manages, and it’s also my last show in Japan. The venue is New World cocoroom. When we arrived I discovered it’s a coffee shop that’s part of a big, multi-storey entertainment complex. The show started with ... http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/2008/03/16/li-jianhongs-japan-diaries-day-eight/ On Chinese New Year's Day, 2/7/2008, Post-Concrete started a brand-new line of releases of sound art, experimental electronic, laptop Max/MSP/Jitter/SuperCollider, algorithmic piano, noise, not-in-the-field recordings, live bootlegs, etc., featuring mostly artists in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. This line is net-only and all releases are offered in the lossless FLAC ... http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/2008/02/09/download-your-archival-vinyl/ NOIShanghai XIII will take place this Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008, 2:30 pm, at Live Bar in Shanghai, 721 Kunming Rd., near Tongbei Rd., way up in Yangpu District. The program includes Torturing Nurse, Wang Changcun, and Runar Magnusson from Iceland, now living in Denmark. Runar was also in China a ... http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/2008/01/17/noishanghai-2nd-anniversary-show-this-saturday/ December 15, 2006 We got out of bed at noon to go have lunch with Little Snow. Today she wanted to invite us to eat an Osaka specialty, okonomiyaki, at a little place called Cherry Blossoms. This dish is a little bit like teppanyaki; looks, smells, taste—got them all. Afterwards, ... http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/2008/01/17/li-jianhongs-japan-diaries-day-seven/ I already had Karlheinz Stockhausen on my mind prior to his death last month. For probably a good twelve years now I’ve had my eye out for a recording of Gesang der Jünglinge, which I think was originally issued on Deutsche Grammophon back in the 60’s, but for a ... http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/2008/01/05/stockhausen-and-videogames/ I'd recommend the British composer Cornelius Cardew to anyone who's following new music and China. For a long time he was on my list of composers I ought to know more about, but it took moving to Shanghai to provide the necessary impetus to dig in. I had ... http://www.chinesenewear.com/gno/2008/01/05/stockhausen-serves-imperialism/