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)

© 2008 Post-Concrete

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…”