Guest: Yan Jun (CN), MikkoSavela (SE)
Date: 2014-11-14 19：00 ~ 2014-11-14 20:00
Address: Chronus Art Center (101, Bldg18, 50 Moganshan Rd. Shanghai)
This event is free of charge. Reservation via membership@chronusartcenter.org(please send your full name, contact information, and the number of places to reserve).
About The Concert:
This mini concert will beperformed by Chinese musician Yan Jun and Swiss musician MikkoSavela. They are both improvisational musicians. More precisely, their improvisation abandonsexpressions of their own personal emotions and avoidsmusical syntax, to seek out the limits of improvisation;they use noises instead of notes to escape the pollution of culture and aesthetic taste;their musical instruments are either electronic instruments or guitars laid on the table, so people have come to jokingly call their music “Table Music”.
The performance of “Table Music” involves a distinct lack of bodily movements, let alone theatricality. The performers have a greater similarityto office clerks than to artists. Do bodies still exist? Have bodies become an extension of machines? Or, on the contrary, have machines have replaced bodies and become independent players? Do these calm players and their music without climaxes betray our once warm bodies? Actually, have these so-called warm bodies betrayed us and become opium dens for sweet reminiscence?
This concert will not provide you with answers. Instead, our two musicians aim to intensify the confusion and betrayal of all people.
About the artists:
Yan Jun (CN), musician.born in Lanzhou in 1973, based in Beijing. Plays improvised music and makes field recordings. His works involve electronics, feedback, site-specific performances/installations, noise, and the organization of events. His sets of feedback improvisation always follow the unstable relationship between microphones, speakers, the space, and his own bodily movements. Yan is member of FEN, Tea Rockers Quintet, and Impro Committee. He has toured in the US, Australia, Europe and Asia. He often playsin the living rooms of his audiences,using the specific spaces and objects as instruments (known as the Living Room Tour project). His Micro Feedback project is hypnosis via headphone for small audiences.
MikkoSavela(SE),guitarist from Ume?, Sweden,born in 1984. After exploring different genres with various groups, ?Savela turned to improvisation and extended techniques.? He now uses several guitars simultaneously, that have been prepared ?in a variety of ways, along with electronics. ?Active as a live solo performer since 2004,Savela has played with Will Guthrie, Keith Rowe, Jerome Noetinger, among others.
