Personal Creative Project 2*

Xu Cheng

Xu Cheng is a sound artist who works and lives in Shanghai. He is engaged in experimental music, improvisation, electronic music, etc. Aside from ontology of sound, Xu Cheng also pays attention to the correlation between sound and social space, the related behavior and its presentation.

http://www.minshengart.com/en/category/activity-list/detail!ling-ting-fen-lan-hei-se-bing-shan

This is an album made by a group of artists from China named Anthology Of Experimental Music From China.

Due to its more deeply underground roots free of academic institutions and hierarchy, Chinese electronic music ranges the full gamut from elegant minimalism to abrasive noise, often within the same song. 

https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/anthology-of-experimental-music-from-china

I like the song made by Artist Xu Cheng in this album. For me, this piece of music is like standing in the middle of a valley and listening to the wind. This song reminds me of what I learned in class before using the same voice to complete a piece of music.

This song reminds me of a piece of music I heard before. Although they may have nothing to do with each other, I can still relate to it.

A group of Chinese artists made it, and it’s called 《东京杀人事件》. The first time I heard this music was about two years ago, and this is my first exposure to sound art. This kind of music is called experimental music, unlike traditional music, which has no specific beat and melody, and the main idea is to “let the sound speak for itself”.

Back to the music, the middle and late stages of the song are shouts. It’s an unmistakable voice that allows me to hear the woman’s desperation at the time, and that’s what I hear. Perhaps in this creation, we can not write such musical things but reflect the sound and record the sound.

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