( ARCHIVAL VINYL )

AV 017 Wang Changcun - Flicker

admin — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 02:42:23 +0000

AV017
WANG Changcun
王長存
Flicker

All tracks by Wang Changcun
(no modulation, editing, mixing)
Recorded 2003-2009 in Hangzhou,
Shanghai, Beijing, Shuangcheng, Ninghai

Mastering by Yao Dajün
Photos by Wang Changcun
Design by Yao Dajün

a CHINA SOUND UNIT production

Post-Concrete AV017
Archival Vinyl Series
Released 2009.6.4
© 2009 Post-Concrete
All Rights Reserved

> download MP3 (320kbps, 186MB)

AV 016 Zhang Liming - A Gift of Despair for My Friends

admin — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:39:23 +0000

AV016
ZHANG Liming (hitlike)
張立明
A Gift of Despair for My Friends

01 Plug (0′06″)
02 Plug & Finger (0′25″)
03 Plug, Finger & Radio (1′00″)
04 Plug, Finger, Radio & Software (4′00″)
05 Oh, My Friend (1′15″)
06 Ai (0′54″)
07 Love Letter: Sneering at Others is My Pleasure? (2′12″)
08 Artistic Communion (1′15″)
09 Soundscap(e)lay (2′27″)
10 A Killer’s Memory (3′04″)
11 Sui-ci-de (4′25″)
12 When John Oswald Meets Merzbow & Takashi Miike (5′17″)
13 Then We Can xxxx Merzbow (1′00″)
14 Walkman Choice (4′33″)
15 Eating (3′37″)
16 Digesting (2′06″)
17 Defecating (1′10″)
18 Hope (for Lohope) (1′24″)
19 Lohope (5′21″)
20 Donkey Again Despairs (4′20″)

All tracks by Zhang LiMing
Recorded July 2004 in Harbin, China
Mastering by Zhang LiMing
Design & Photography by Dajuin Yao

> download FLAC (CD quality files)

Post-Concrete AV016
Archival Vinyl Series
Released 03.28.2009
© 2009 Post-Concrete
All Rights Reserved

AV015 Herba Abri - S/T

admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 14:12:59 +0000

AV015
Herba Abri
(周沛／Mini Mok)
S/T

1. Untitled#1
2. Untitled#2
3. Untitled#3
4. Untitled#4

Recorded in our living room
directly from mixer to MiniDisc in April 2008

Ronez: amplified qin qin/scissors/pedals/design
Mini Mok: theremin mini/pedals

周沛：加電秦琴，剪刀，效果器，設計
Mini Mok：迷你太樂鳴，效果器

Release Date: 03.19.2009

> download FLAC
> download MP3

AV014 Xu Cheng - Wild Fox Chants

admin — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:13:15 +0000

AV014
XU Cheng 徐程
Wild Fox Chants
野狐吟

九段即興演奏
預置吉他・徐程

二零零八後半
陸續錄製於塵鑒齋

Improvisations in 9 Parts
Prepared guitar - XU Cheng

Recorded 2008
at Studio Chenjian, Shanghai
Design by Xu Cheng, Yao Dajün

Release Date: 03.19.2009

> download FLAC
> download MP3

AV013 Wolfenstein - ddddootttt

admin — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:33:16 +0000

AV013
Wolfenstein (XIE Zhongqi) 謝仲其
ddddootttt

Realized by Xie Zhongqi
Recorded live Feb 26, 2006
At Nanhai Gallery, Taipei

Mastering by Studio YüYü / Yao Dajün
Design by Yao Dajün

A RECORDERZ Project

Release Date: 04.20.2008

> download FLAC
> download MP3

AV012 Beijing Sound Unit - ARCHIVE.XX1

admin — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:01:03 +0000

AV012
Beijing Sound Unit
Archive.XX1
北京聲音小組：檔案 XX1

XX1.01
XX1.02
XX1.03
XX1.04
XX1.05
XX1.06
XX1.07

Location: Beijing City, China
Date: 1998–1999
Language: Mandarin with Beijing and other regional accents

Source Format: DAT tapes (16-bit/44.1Khz)
Hardware: Beyerdynamic MC-833, Tascam DA-P1, Sound Devices MP1
Shure VP88, Sony M1, Radio Shack PRO-39

Research, Analysis, Conservation & Realization: Yao Dajuin
Photography & Design: Yao Dajuin
Special Thanks to: Dr. Tsao Jerlian

A CHINA SOUND UNIT Project

File Release Date: 2008.03.12
Authorization Code: csu.at.post-concrete.com

For Academic Research Only. All Other Uses Prohibited Without Prior Permission From CSU.

本檔案僅供學術研究。禁止他用。

> download FLAC

AV011 Zhang Liming - PALLIATIVE SEDATION

admin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:14:52 +0000

AV011
ZHANG Liming (hitlike) 張立明
Palliative Sedation 緩和鎮靜

1. From A Side of 2nd Tape (12:45)
2. From B Side of 2nd Tape (5:48)
3. From 5th Tape (Deep Night in Ionosphere) (12:44)
4. From 10th Tape (4:44)
5. Hailiang (2:54)
6. Bus No.17 (5:49)
7. Train Passing Siping (4:23)
8. Harmonious, Inharmonious (3:35)

All tracks by Zhang Liming (hitlike)
Recorded 2003–2008
In Harbin (Heilongjiang Province), Siping (Jilin Province)
and Chifeng (Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region)

Tracks 1-4: Sony Portable Mono Cassette Recorder TCM-459V
Built-in Flat Microphone
Tracks 5-8: Sony Recording MD MZ-R900
Sony Electret Condenser Microphone ECM-MS907

Mastering by Yao Dajuin
Liner Essay by Zhang Liming
Design by Yao Dajuin

Release Date: 2008.03.11

AV010 Zhou Risheng - NORTH POLE SCROLL

admin — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:59:40 +0000

AV010
ZHOU Risheng 周日升
North Pole Scroll 北極畫卷

1. North Pole Scroll
2. UFO Manufacturing Plant
3. Girlsmile
4. Pleasuring
5. Divination & Noise
6. Living in
7. Sound Hail

Composed by Zhou Risheng
Recorded 2007
At Studio Feihouzaosheng
In Datong, Shanxi, China

Mastering by Yao Dajuin
Cover Art & Design by Yao Dajuin

A POST-CONCRETE PRODUCTION

> download FLAC

© 2008 Post-Concrete

AV009 Zafka - YONG◎HE

admin — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:57:34 +0000

AV009
Zafka (ZHANG Anding 張安定)
Yong◎He 雍◎和

1. Yong◎He (33:36)

Composed by Zafka
All sounds recorded June - August, 2007
In the Yonghe Temple area, Beijing, China

Sound Map by Zafka & Tiaotiao
Liner Essay by Zafka
Photography by Zafka
Mastering & Design by Yao Dajuin

A Thousand Plateaus Art Space Project

> download FLAC (CD-quality, with album art)
> download MP3 (320K, with album art)

Liner photos: photos1 photos2 photos3

AV008 Wang Changcun - THE KLONE CONCERTS

admin — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:59:06 +0000

AV008
WANG Changcun 王長存
The Klone Concerts

Side One Cut 1 (14:17)
Side One Cut 2 (3:32)
Side One Cut 3 (7:24)
Side Two Cut 1 (2:42)
Side Two Cut 2 (4:33)
Side Two Cut 3 (11:03)
Side Two Encore (4:26)

Piano: Wang Changcun
All Compositions by Wang Changcun

Recorded live October 23, 2007
at Harbin Concert Hall and
November 8, 2007 at Daqing Opera Theatre
Heilongjiang Province, China
Recording Engineer: Zhang Jungang
Compiled and Mixed by Yao Dajuin at Studio YüYü
Cover Design by Yao Dajuin
Produced by Yao Dajuin

A POST-CONCRETE PRODUCTION

> download FLAC Side1 Side2
> download MP3 (320k) Side1 Side2

© 2008 Post-Concrete

AV007 Zafka - i•MIRROR

admin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:59:25 +0000

AV007
Zafka (ZHANG Anding 張安定)
i•Mirror: Soundscapes of SL

1. I (17:52) (right-click/control-click this link and save to disk)
2. • (9:52) (normal click to download)
3. Mirror (13:12)

All tracks composed and produced by Zafka
Recorded: Nov 2006–Apr 2007
Location: Second Life
Hardware: MacBook Pro 15
Software: Audio Hijack
Design: Sono Innis
Mastering: Yao Dajuin

> download FLAC (CD-quality, links above)
> download MP3 (320K)

From a review by Berwin Song in That’s Beijing:

“The latest project from Hunan native and Beijing sound artist Zhang Anding (aka Zafka) is eye-catching thanks to some innovative packaging: i.Mirror comes on a limited edition vPod – in essence, a daoban [pirated] iPod shuffle – which makes a neat enough gift, and offers plenty of utility beyond Zafka’s artistic contribution. As for the content, its three tracks use sounds taken exclusively from the virtual online reality world of Second Life (SL) – a project that started with the intent to capture the ’sonic environments’ of SL residents, but instead discovered mostly just the built-in noises of the virtual environment: loops of whistling wind, bird and insect calls, all mimicked electronically for a digital world…”

New Year Update

admin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 02:23:52 +0000

This is surely the harshest Lunar New Year’s everybody has ever had around here, with all that rain and snow, and not having seen the sun for something like a month now, and no heaters in the south.

But our CPUs are running as hot as ever. Two lovely, fine albums – AV007 and AV008 – are now in post-production, and another, AV009, is also in the works. We’ll keep the releases coming, fast, and hope to cover a variety of styles. AV is all about being open-ended. What you hear here now is no stylistic indication of what’s going to be in our future releases. At least we’d like to keep thinking that way.

You’re welcome to leave comments here for the artists; BTW, almost all of them are fluent in English. Big thanks to Sebastian Mendes of Seattle, for featuring AV releases on his recent radio show.

AV006 2RqP5k - ANTECHRE LIVE IN SHANGHAI

admin — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:19:11 +0000

AV006
2RqP5k
Antechre Live in Shanghai

1. Live 2.0
2. Live 1.0
(right-click/control-click these links and save to disk)

All tracks by 2RqP5k
Recorded: May 27, 2007
At The LIVE BAR, Shanghai

Hardware: PowerBook
Design: 2RqP5k
Mastering: Yao Dajuin

Part of the NOISHANGHAI 2nd Anniversary show
Special thanks to Arbyth for the “Live 2.0″ bootleg recording

Track 2 bootleg lineage: Audience recording 16-bit/44.1KHz WAV file (Zoom H4 digital recorder using the internal stereo mics) -> edited on Mac, no EQ, gain raised +2.0dB -> AIFF -> FLAC

> download FLAC (links above)
> download MP3 (320K)

© 2008 Post-Concrete

AV005 Wolfenstein - LIVE AT NANHAI 2007

admin — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 03:19:49 +0000

AV005
Wolfenstein (XIE Zhongqi 謝仲其)
Live at Nanhai 2007

1. Movements 1-3
2. Movement 4
(right-click/control-click these links and save to disk)

All tracks by Xie Zhongqi
Recorded: August 10, 2007
At Nanhai Gallery, Taipei
Hardware: IBM ThinkPad
Design: Xie Zhongqi
This performance is part of the Lacking Sound Festival series

> download FLAC (links above)

Yao Dajuin’s extended interview with Wolfenstein discussing this performance:
Part 1, Part 2 (in Mandarin)

AV004 Yao Dajuin - DREAM REVERBERATIONS (SINGLES)

admin — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:33:40 +0000

AV004
YAO Dajuin
Dream Reverberations 夢的殘音 (Singles Edition 單曲版)

1. Cursive Calligraphy 草書 (9:34)
2. Satisfaction of Oscillation 震盪的滿足 (9:25)

All tracks by Yao Dajuin
Speech samples: Tsao Jerlian

Recorded: 1997
Studio: false.time.controller, Berkeley, California
Hardware: PowerMac, Peavey PC-1600, Ensoniq DP/4+, Lexicon MPX-1
Software: Poetry Design Assistant (aka PDA, proprietary), SuperCollider v1.1
Mastering: Yao Dajuin
Design: Yao Dajuin
Photo: Osvald Sirén (at Yi Garden, Suzhou, 1948)

> download FLAC (links above)

Notes:

1. All tracks made from a few syllables/words of Mandarin recitation (track 1, two syllables; track 2, five syllables), reading poems generated algorithmically. No singing, no other sound sources, samples, or electronic sound generation were used in the entire album.

2. No pitch-shifting was used in “Satisfaction of Oscillation.” All (pseudo-)melodic content is inherent in Mandarin speech. This composition is strictly Reichian, and not, as is often misunderstood, Lansky-an, in spirit.

3. The “Singles Edition” was selected from the out-of-print album “Dream Reverberations” (Juxiang, 1997).

4. “Satisfaction of Oscillation” also published by Sub Rosa in “An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music vol. 5 - fifth a-chronology 1920-2007” (Sub Rosa, 2007) and by UbuWeb in “Contemporary Chinese Experimental Music” on UbuWeb Sound, curated by Lawrence Li (UbuWeb, 2007).

Launch Party

admin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:07:00 +0000

First three titles released on time, at 7:30 p.m., on Lunar New Year’s Day. Party still going on as we speak, by the Danshui River.

AV003 Chiang Liwei - EXPERIENCES

admin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 01:25:52 +0000

AV003
JIANG Liwei 江立威
Experiences

1. Caged (20:59)
2. Sonic Movement (19:53)
3. The Original Movement (bonus track) (9:19)
(right-click/control-click these links and save to disk)

All tracks by Jiang Liwei
Recorded live - Caged @ The Knitting Factory, NYC, 4.5.2006
Sonic Movement @ 4th 2Pi Festival, Hangzhou, 11.25.2006
Hardware: PowerBook + Faderfox

Editing & Mastering: OMA Studio, Taipei
Photo & Design: Jiang Liwei
Special Thanks to Taipei Sound Unit, friends & family

> download FLAC (links above)
> download MP3 (320k)
> download album sleeve, record label

AV002 Xie Zhongqi - KUROJAWAN

admin — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 18:53:50 +0000

AV002
XIE Zhongqi 謝仲其 (Wolfenstein)
Kurojawan

1. Kurojawan (62:38)
(right-click/control-click this link and save to disk)

All sounds by Xie Zhongqi
Recorded : 2007–2008
Hardware: IBM ThinkPad
Design: Xie Zhongqi
Mastering: Yao Dajuin

> download FLAC (link above)
> download MP3 (192k)

AV001 Wang Changcun - KUNCHONG

admin — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:56:32 +0000

AV001
WANG Changcun 王長存
KUNCHONG 昆蟲 (Insects)

1. track1 (3:03)
2. track2 (5:43)
3. track3 (13:05)
4. track4 (28:30) (right-click/control-click this link and save to disk)
5. track5 (5:50)

All tracks by Wang Changcun
Recorded: 2006–2007
Hardware: PowerBook, Roland R1 recorder, Sony MZR909 MD
Design: Wang Changcun
Mastering: Yao Dajuin

> download FLAC (links above)
> download MP3 (224k)

NEW YEAR, NEW EAR

admin — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 02:34:10 +0000

Post-Concrete announces a new line of sound art releases – ARCHIVAL VINYL. All titles in this series will be released in the lossless compression, full CD-quality FLAC format, and for free download (you can burn your own CDs with the audio files and cover art).

This site is bilingual >> English + Mandarin.

「音樂具象 Post-Concrete」唱片即將推出新系列唱片出品──「黑膠檔案」。「黑膠檔案」全系列作品以無損壓縮 FLAC 格式之 CD 級別最高音質發行，提供樂友不收費下載（可自行刻碟印封面）。

請注意：版權 Post-Concrete 所有，本系列作品僅供個人聆聽，不得轉作任何其他用途。如有其他需要，歡迎來信。