Rockbund Art Museum 上海外滩美术馆

Mai Mai
Playwright, director, experimental musician
Born in 1982 in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province
Graduated from Shanghai Theatre Academy in 2006, now lives in Shanghai

In 2006, he formed the experimental rock band Muscle Snog as vocalist/guitarist and lyricist, which disbanded after the release of their debut album 'mind shop' in 2009. In 2008, he started to run the improvised music group "R.E.S.O." and began to experiment with improvised music as a solo artist. In 2013, his short film "The Cowards" was selected for the International Competition at the Tampere Film Festival in Finland, one of the top three short film festivals in Europe. International Film Festival and won the night award in the International Competition.

Works: Song One

Yin Yi
Musician, artist and curator. Born in Shanghai.

He formed the slow-core band "Death Poetry Society" in 1998 as a bassist and vocalist and turned to digital music creation in 2001. Yin Yi's early musical career included musical performance, contemporary dance and physical theatre. In recent years, his musical practice has focused on solo live music performance and the exploration of the functionality of music in social structures. Based on a deeper consideration and research of 'listening' and 'sound', Yin Yi has developed a cross-media artistic practice that includes performance, sound, video and installation. Perception, identity, culture and media have become the focus of his work. For him, art is a recipe for self-healing and a touchstone for reflection and action.

Work: Pushead, recorded using acoustic instruments, white noise filtered.

Sun Wei
Artist, sound worker, working between the field and the live, involving ambient recordings, electronic improvisation, compositions and site-specific sound installations, and trying to blur the boundaries. www.sunweistudio.org

Work: Laptop spiked feedback, laptop, amplifier, clutter, passing time and uncertain audience.

Xiang
Born in 1984 in Chengdu, China, DJ and experimental musician. Mainly creates electronic music, field recordings and electronic acoustic compositions. Practises artistic projects that combine sound, body and performance. xiang.bandcamp.com

Works: Island, compositions using pre-recordings, vocals, body.

Shou Junyuan
Artist, "Where is the Zeitgeist?" Editorial Edit

Work: Plastic Reply, a piece done with the audience. Very simple, I give the questions and the audience reply to me in plastic.

Yan Jun
Mainly doing field recordings, live performances and electronic compositions. The work is very simple. Sometimes there are physical movements, not always with sound (or without).
yanjun.org

Work: Feedback Solo
Because my own equipment is unreliable, I'm picky about the power of the venue, so much so that I rarely perform this piece. This time I decided to give it a try anyway. The main thing is to use body movements to influence the feedback noise. The controllable part is about 25%, I think. Every room, every set of sound, every power supply has a different result, and sometimes I get so mad that I start thinking "what is improvisation anyway?" "Is this not what you want?" Questions like that.

Luo Tianrui
Luo Tianrui is a recording artist based in Shanghai.

Work: 'Generations' Shanghai Ferry

Generation
noun
1) a generation (within the same family)
2) generation, occurrence.

Generations is a project that uses live recordings and analogue tapes to create site-specific abstract soundscapes through repeated improvisations. A 'Generation' is created by recording, reusing and overlaying each performance. The end product is a complex, multi-layered abstraction built on the original DNA of each previous Generation. The project took two years to assemble and program a hybrid digital/analogue installation in order to realise this process of generation creation. This performance includes recordings I have completed on all current Shanghai ferry routes. The earliest recordings were made on the Chongming Island ferry in 2009, before the Yangtze River bridge and tunnel were built. The majority of the recordings were made in the last few months for this performance. Each 'Generation' was created through the performance.

Xu Cheng
Xu Cheng is a sound artist, sound event practitioner and organiser living in Shanghai. He was a key member of the noise group Torturing Nurse and has worked in various fields of experimental music, free improvisation and electronic music. In addition to the ontology of sound, Xu Cheng is also concerned with the interrelationship between sound and social space and its related behaviours and manifestations. His works are presented in various forms such as audio-visual performance, installation, music and theatre.

Works: Introduction
Liezi learnt the Way from Hu Qiu Zi. After nine years, his eyes were like his ears, his ears were like his nose, his nose was like his mouth, and his mouth was no different. He then travelled on the wind to a city. Liezi's journey never took him near the border, never, and this is still a long way from the pedestrian street. Just imagining a part of the pedestrian street now made Liezi tired, and he could not imagine anything else but people. Even if he hadn't got lost on the way there, he would have gotten lost when he flew to the pedestrian street, which was so big that it was impossible not to get stuck in it, and besides, Lenko didn't have a flying licence.