[microsound-announce] News for Tomorrow by Yan Jun | Beijing | Third Birdcage episode

[daniele balit]

Birdcage and The Invisible Generation present

News for Tomorrow
by Yan Jun

curated by: Daniele Balit

Beijing Youth Weekly editorial office (8A, Julong Garden, Xinzhongjie,  
Beijing)
October 9th – Novembre 13th (Monday – Friday, 11 am – 2 pm)
contact and info: birdcagespace at gmail.com 0086-10-13810315778
web: http://www.birdcagespace.com

News For Tomorrow is a commissioned piece by Beijing-based artist Yan  
Jun for the Birdcage itinerant sound gallery. The artist picked one of  
the desks in the editorial office of Beijing Youth Weekly and placed  
recording devices, mp3 players and cassette walkman in it. The devices  
either reproduce the interview recordings of the magazine’s editorial  
staff, or record the soundscape of the office, which will be  
simultaneously played and processed in real time through headphones  
while creating feedback noise.

The staff and writers of Beijing Youth Weekly, the people who go to  
the magazine’s office for business purposes, and the friends and  
relatives of the above mentioned are the only people allowed to  
experience the piece, using the headphones displaced in the office.

After Stockholm with Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Amsterdam with dj  
sniff, Yan Jun's News For Tomorrow introduces the third Birdcage  
episode. The piece is also part of “The Invisible Generation”  
programme of art interventions in the cities of Melbourne, Beijing,  
Shenzhen and Kiev and will be exhibited, as a replica, at Blank /  
Beijing Zhongjian Gallery from the 24th of October 2009.

urls:
http://www.birdcagespace.com
http://theinvisiblegeneration.blogspot.com/
http://www.yanjun.org


produced by: Vision Forum - http://www.visionforum.eu

Yan Jun (born in Lanzhou in 1973, now based in Beijing) explores the  
realm of sound and language using different tools as feedback noise,  
drone sound, voice, field recording, site-specific sound installation,  
impro music, environmental sound, writing, publishing and curating.  
He's the founder of Sub Jam and of its sub-label Kwan Yin Records. He  
runs a weekly event in Beijing called Waterland Kwanyin and organizes  
the annual festival Mini Midi since 2005.He has published 5 essay  
collections about Chinese new music and 3 poetry collections.