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XU is the editor of we-need-money-not-art, the Chinese version of wmmna. He studied Computer Science and his love for music triggered his interest for new media art. I asked him if he'd want to blog about the new media art scene in China. Here's his first post: 8gg (short for ban gu ge in Chinese meaning eight-part song in English) is a multimedia duo from Beijing composed of Bao Yu and Jian Haiqing. They worked for Motorola, Panasonic, Microsoft and Apple. Everything about their work is big and real and always comes to you with shocks. It is not easy to be both big and real. Anyway they did it.
In the work by Yao Dajun, a girl is sharing her love experiences with another girl and the converation is taken from the real telephone call by a wireless scanner. The video used was some residual material from a documentary: the nervous look on the faces of different girls waiting for a interview.
Continue reading... A real-time interactive music-composing machine that produces various rhythms and sound fragments in the way of game.
Earplug is supposed to be used for stopping the noise. But in this performance earplugs became the producers of terrible noises.
Like when doing music, sound feedbacks are always used, 8gg prefer to make video using video feedbacks. They often feedback the most ordinary windows in Windows. Are they working for Microsoft?
Sample taken from a performance by Glenn Gould is played live controlled by keyboards of computers. In this way Glenn Gould is changed to Keith Jarrett or other crazier persons.
It creates a soundscape and landscape space. When entering this space, the viewers’ sounds can change the video in the space and their actions can also trigger new sounds.
Real-time visual music system separates the images in the way of music and controls sounds by video. |
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