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RYU HANKIL, NOID, MATIJA SCHELLANDER AND OTHERS - FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS (2CD)

MIKROTON, 2015
[experimental, field recording, free improvisation]

In 2013, Noid and Matija Schellander travelled from Vienna to East Asia to meet up with Ryu Hankil and other musicians from Japan, Hong Kong, China, South Korea and Europe. Carrying compositions, sound art pieces and workshop preparations in their luggage to be tested by changing social and artistic settings, by everyday tour life and to be used as starting points for debates in various forms.

The first CD - “Tokyo Office” - is a trio of Noid, Schellander and their main collaborator on this tour: Ryu Hankil from Seoul. It was recorded in the Ftarri shop in Tokyo, an intimate setting, a perfect concert situation for close, concentrated listening. The result is a 44 minute set of unmusical musicality with sounds of typewriter, drums, double bass, cello, jing-hu and victorian synthesizer.

The second CD - "Field Report" - is the travelogue of one month of concerts, field recordings, workshops, dinners, getting lost, missing planes, stretched and contracted gut strings in the temperature and humidity extremes from Okinawa to Beijing, collaborating with locals and other traveling musicians, exposing sometimes strict concepts to confusing listening situations from Seoul rooftops to Osaka market stands to Hong Kong industrial buildings.
Snippets and cuts composed in chronological order to an immersive flow of changing spaces and societies, on the turning point between being in and out.

Tokyo Office

Ftarri | Tokyo | Oct. 14th 2013 47:50

Field Report

Tokyo Subway Closing Door Signature Sound / 100¥ Donation @ Sensō-ji Shrine | Asakusa | Tokyo 0:27
Guggenheim House | Kobe | Oct. 11th 2013 3:00
Pachinko Hall Near Chidoribashi Station | Osaka 0:57
Common Cafe | Osaka | Oct. 13th 2013 7:03
Port | Osaka | Oct. 12th 2013 1:09
Visitors Platform On The 45th Floor Of The Tokyo Metropolitan Tower 0:45
Groove | Urasoe | Okinawa | Oct. 16th 2013 1:51
Acoustic Traffic Light | Naha | Okinawa 1:07
Groove | Urasoe | Okinawa | Oct. 16th 2013 4:24
Bird At A Peacecamp In Front Of The American Army Military Zone Near Takae Village | Okinawa 0:55
Morso | Naha | Oct. 19th 2013 3:30
Dotolimpic Festival @ Mullae Art Center | Seoul | Oct. 26th 2013 | Into The City | Participants Of The Workshop Our Inner Public Space By Noid & Matija Schellander At Mullae Art Center Playing Air Horns While Walking Away From Mullae Art Center 2:19
Dotolimpic Festival @ Mullae Art Center | Seoul | Oct. 27th 2013 4:06
Dotolimpic Festival @ Mullae Art Center | Seoul | Oct. 27th 2013 | Victorian Synthesizer Orchestra | Participants Of The Workshop Our Inner Public Space By Matija Schellander & Noid @ Mullae Art Center 1:23
Wheeled Suitcases On A Paved Street | Seoul / Walking From Mullae Art Center To Yeongdeungpo Metro Station | Seoul 2:51
CIA | Hong Kong | Oct. 29th 2013 | Without Me Everything Would Be Even Worse 2:19
CIA | Hong Kong | Oct. 29th 2013 | Annoy The Void 5:07
Machine Drones In The Staircase Of The CIA Building | Hong Kong 0:33
CIA | Hong Kong | Oct. 29th 2013 | Tiny Tones 4:47
Fuel Tank Filled With Sound Art | Shanghai 1:30
Rockbund Art Museum | Shanghai | Nov. 2nd 2013 | Freedom Is The Recognition Of Necessity | Blank | Silent Dance | Compacting By Impact, All Accompanied By Huddle | Noid, Mp3-players Of The Audience Playing Random Music Through Headphones 6:58
Jing-hu Players @ Ditan Park | Beijing 2:35
Zaija | Peking | Nov. 3rd 2013 9:43