A split album. Some quiet sound outside / in a room.
Blue side: “azotea”: Performed by Anne-F Jacques and Gudinni Cortina on January 12th, 2023, on a rooftop in Mexico City. Recorded by Gudinni Cortina Mixed by Anne-F Jacques
Golden side: “me with room” Performed and recorded by Li Weisi, August 27th in Beijing.
Mastered by Anne-F Jacques Design by Zhu Wenbo
Anne-F Jacques: in the building where gudinni lives there’s a large rooftop with several obsolete parabolic antennas, their dishes taller than me pointing in several directions. one late afternoon when the sun was getting lower in the sky we installed 3 pairs of microphones in different spots on the rooftop. we started making sounds moving around the space, as if getting closer / moving away from an imaginary audience scattered around us, from each other, from the traffic of cars, dogs and airplanes.
Gudinni Cortina is a media artist based in México, who uses a variety of different approaches to transform space, such as live sound performances, photography, and installation. He organized and curated the UMBRAL series and is currently the Director and Curator of the ISO series, both in Mexico City.
Anne-F Jacques is a tinkerer and sound artist based in Montreal. She is interested in amplification, oblique interactions between materials and construction of various contraptions and idiosyncratic systems. Her particular focus is on low technology, trivial objects and unpolished sounds.
https://anne-fjacques.bandcamp.com/
Li Weisi 李维思 is a musician active in China’s underground music since 2005. He plays bass guitar in rock band Carsick Cars and Snapline, meanwhile he has more experimental music / noise / drone metal directions in groups Soviet Pop (with Li Qing), Rat ‘the SPY’ 51 (with Li Qing), Ghostmass (with Li Qing, Yan Jun, Yang Kuku) and his solo set (started around 2013). He uses reel-to-reel recorder, four-track cassette recorder, microphone and various objects and bass guitar, creating super quiet sound to very loud noise.
