Chinese sound art: 2,500 years of listening

7-9pm public talk by Yao Dajuin

Founder of China Sound Unit and educator, Yao Dajuin gives a talk addressing the history of Chinese ways of listening and how it compares and conflicts with those of the West.

*in English,
supplemented by Mandarin

Dajuin Yao is a sound artist, music producer, curator, radio host, art historian. For decades, Dajuin has been promoting experimental music through radio shows, websites and teaching. He has curated large-scale international new media events, including Sounding Beijing 2003 and the opening ceremony for the 2008 Shanghai eArts Festival. In 1997 Dajuin founded China Sound Unit, which is devoted to documenting and recontextualizing Chinese urban sound phenomena with a series of recordings, performances and installations. Each installation covers one city and makes use of various historical, spatial and aural analogies. Dajuin is also the producer of the sound art record label Post-Concrete. He has developed full curricula in sound art in China and Taiwan and currently teaches at the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou.

http://www.sinologic.com
http://www.post-concrete.com
http://www.subborg.com by soundpocket
Enquiry: Yeung Yang – yangy@soundpocket.org.hk | www.soundpocket.org.hk
@ EDT Lab, 4/F, Academy for Performing Arts, 1 Gloucester Road, Wanchai
(gather at 6’45pm, G/F foyer for
venue direction)