Hui Ye & Qu Chang: Linger in Sounds Event

Hui Ye & Qu Chang
Linger in Sounds
eingeladen von
Hans Jürgen Hauptmann
lecture & sound performance
Beginn
19h30

Linger in Sounds is a lecture and sound performance, a blend of autobiographical utterance that looks upon old TV commercials, music videos in 80s and 90s in China. It is an assemblage of singing, murmuring, and dialogues. In it, audio, visual and emotional patterns within historical as well as contemporary sound and visual archives are explored. Singing voices extracted from old pop songs open a soundscape that transmits multiple messages and re-compose histories. Among the polyphonic clamour of the past and its echos in the present, the performance reflects on a collective amnesia in the age of economic reform, and its entangled relationship with singing.

Led by Qu Chang and Ye Hui, Linger in Sounds is the first public presentation derived from the two’s long term artistic research focusing on popular music in Mainland China from the 80s onwards. Their research seeks to re-listen to and to re-feel pop music as an important medium embedded in the structure of feeling of post-reform China. They see the act of singing as an effective and lyrical exercise of subject-making. And through different artistic expressions, they delineate the ways in which songs and singing embed in us and become us.