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ricebaby mix and picks

Indonesian currently based in Denmark (in her free time), ricebaby mixes, picks, compiles and unfolds an assorted journey for the given hour as opposed to choosing a set genre; it could go from ambient, traditional instrumental sounds, chill pop, easy-dancy-housy, disco, feel-good tracks, to energising-anime-like-songs (and everything in between). What’s sure is that she focuses mostly (but not always exclusively) on east/south-east asian tunes 🔮💗

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ShioriyBradshaw with DJ Nativesun

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The Mothership Series w/ Rainmaker – 22/09/2021

Mothership is an art collective based in Colombia, which looks forward to showing emerging artists and new manifestations of the sound.

Breaking barriers, this collective wants to connect and create a collaborative community focused on the avant-garde and deconstructed sounds of the world.

Tracklist
E+E – Elysian Dream
OMAAR – Drum Dance
Ninos Du Brasil – Clelia Clelia
Hound Sclaes – A Clique Of Tough Women (Yuji Kondo Remix)
Fleck & E.S.C – Nice Guy (Pip Williams Remix)
Binary Algorithms – Boomin’ System [Forthcoming NEAS]
Amantra – Coin Operated Female [Forthcoming NEAS]
Jam City – Worst Illusion
Rainmaker – Inmortal #2 [Forthcoming Artificio]
Splash Pattern – Severe (Object Blue Remix)
Tomás Urquieta – Naipan
Lithe & Local Support – Satisfy
Kanye West – Off The Grid (Acapella)
Despina & Data Soft – Choker Release
Dehousy – Persian Club
Imaabs – MORPH
Entrañas & PVSSY – Gibeon
MISS JAY – BLOOD MOON


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New Work City Records w/ Technomaterialism – 22/09/2021

Avid dance music enthusiasts and prolific music critics Mathys Rennela and Jean-Hugues Kabuiku return as Technomaterialism for the final show of their guest residency with New Work City Records. Today’s show is centered around French rap and how it relates to issues such as police brutality, the French Black struggle, Black Arab solidarity, as well as the 2005 riots.

Tracklist:
Oxmo Puccino – J’ai mal au mic
Suprême NTM – Police
Set & quipe (feat. Rimcash)
Saian Supa Crew – La Preuve par 3
ILL – Les bidons veulent le guidon feat. Time Bomb Team
Suprême NTM – Ma Benz (feat. Lord Kossity)
Iam – L’empire du cÃŽté obscur
MC Solaar – Solaar pleure
Saian Supa Crew – Polices

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Bedouin Records: Junya Hirano (environment 0g / remodel)

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Take Me Higher w/ SNKLS – 21/09/2021

Tracklist:
Jana Rush_Drivin’Me Insane (Ft. Nancy Fortune)
BANCAL_cave (WIP)
Slikback_FIO
Wormfinger_I break
FIFI & LUNATICA_SubRosa
dj haram_Mother_82
quest?onmarq_Like This
Homesick_Like This 2020
EQ Why_Lotta Money (Juke remix)(Dirty)
Arma_Wolves Tool(Arma edit)
Nikes_Boneless
Colin Muir_Movrend
SNKLS_Matin Shape
Atom TM_0.9(almost a unit)
Nahash & SNKLS_March Sadness (soon at Polaar)
Merca Bae & Bitterbab
PIT-VINI_TEMPESTADE.EXE
Aloka_Movement
Flore_Coded Language( 3Phaz remix)
Gwia Ekim & Indigoblue_Content Corruption (SNKLS remix) (soon at Club Late Music)
Feloneezy_Rain
Artilect_Rhythm Seeker
Stazma_Voltage song (gangstertrackermix)
Ouero_Proto

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XAN – 21/09/2021

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Ruminations on Impermanence by Opal Beau – 21/09/2021

It’s impossible to tell if the quietude and the blank expression on the face of the performer is a sign of relaxation or stress. I’ve learned that whatever sounds peaceful is informed by chaos, and there is always an order underlying the mess. I’ve also learned that it’s never as simple as it seems, especially now. Previously an audience kept the performer company, but now the lounge is empty, the audience is invisible, the performer is alone. This is lounge music for when the lounge is the bedroom, and the studio, and the dining room, etc.

Tracklist:
Caetano Veloso – London, London
Opal Beau – Autumn
Twye – Nocturne for Stationary Ones
CVN – 舌䞋 (Karaoke)
Bebel Gilberto – August Day Song
Other Joe – Somatic
bela – caustic waves
Plasma – Restricted Area (Chill Mix)
7038634357 – Landing
woopheadclrms – korpokkur
Ubu Boi – Hide
Lara K. – There’s a Dying World in Us
Contacto – Losing Hold
Lemongrass – The Bell
Slikback – OPTIMAL
䞭谷矎玀 Miki Nakatani – 雚だれ
Troth – Small Movements in Radiance
èvia – tear hail
Eilien – Dawned
unstabile – capability
Instra:mental – Photograph
sortlegeme – falling
Elis Regina – Ela

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Yiiee – 21/09/2021

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/embed/807ZTKitPw0[/youtube]
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【專蚪 INTERVIEW】Yongsi 泳思

CHINESE VERSION
連結收聜 Yongsi泳思 為 HKCR 特補的 Select Mix 歌單
(Currents.FM/ Spotify)



已近兩幎。每倩消去倖圚的毒。每倩隔著口眩幜閉地對話。劂歀䞍斷重芆以前的日垞——我們與倖界的關係——面目幟近暡糊䞍枅。以至我們開始想像䞀個還可盎接地擁抱䞖界的過去。䜆圢圢匏匏的消毒劑和口眩林林瞜瞜的壁壘和分界䞍也存圚斌「以前」嗎——最終所謂我們與倖界的關係究竟為䜕

圚其剛斌8 月掚出其銖匵EP《Is anybody out there?》旅居日本的暂手Yongsi遊戈斌自我與他者的邊界圚語蚀的暡糊間重新叩問「我」為䜕物。

もうすぐで2幎が経぀。殺菌されたくる毎日ずマスクに隔離される䌚話。それたでの生掻、倖郚ず私たちずの関係が忘华の圌方に消えおいき、やがお私たちは、ただすぐに䞖界を受け入れるこずができた過去を想像し始める。しかし、さたざたな圢の陀菌剀やマスク、さたざたな障壁や境界線は、「過去」にも存圚しおいたのではないのか。倖郚ず自分の関係ず呌ばれるものは、結局䜕なのか。

日本を拠点に掻動するアヌティスト、泳思は、8月にリリヌスした1st EP「Is anybody out there?」にお、自己ず他者の境界を圷埚い、蚀語の曖昧さの間で「私ずは䜕か」を再び問いかけようずしおいた。

蚪問gari



Q1. 䜠奜Yongsi。可以簡單介玹䞀䞋自己嗎

初めたしお、泳思。あなたのこずを少し教えおください。

䜠奜我叫泳思。泳思是我媜取的本名意思是「願䜠的思緒萬千劂氞恒的流氎䞀般生生䞍息」。我生斌䞭國貎州貎陜是倧山里出生地球䞊長倧的孩子。我埞12歲開始䜜詞䜜曲圚2019幎的時候癌䜈了我的第䞀銖敞碌單曲——〈Where I Will〉。珟圚人們把我歞類成「藝術家」。


こんにちは、私の名前は泳思です。母が぀けおくれた本名で、「あなたの感性が無限の氎のように氞遠に流れるように」ずいう意味が蟌められおいるらしい。貎州省貎陜垂の山生たれで、地球育ち。12歳に䜜曲を始め、2019幎に初のデゞタルシングル「Where I Will」をリリヌスしたした。今、人々に「アヌティスト」ず呌ばれおいるず思いたす。


Q2. 當初為䜕遞擇旅居日本

日本に行ったきっかけは

沒有特别的理由就是芺埗是時候該去䞋䞀站了所以其寊哪裡郜是可以的。

特別な理由はなかった。ただ、そろそろ次の堎所に行くべきだず思いたした。正盎どこでもよかった。


Q3. 埞䞭國到日本這幎又埞京郜蜉到東京這皮跚語蚀、跚地域的經驗對創䜜有什麌圱響

䞭囜から日本ぞ、そしお今幎は京郜から東京ぞ移䜏したず思いたすが、こうした蚀語や地域を超えた経隓は、あなたの音楜にどのような圱響を䞎えおいたすか

事寊䞊我也曟圚矎國和英國居䜏過䞀段時間圚英國的居䜏期間我獚自環枞了歐掲䞀段時間可以說圚海倖的時間至少占了我人生的䞉分之䞀。這䞀系列的經歷促䜿我對時間、空間、萬物以及人情有了些蚱個人的看法這些思緒有䞀郚分反應圚了我的䜜品䞭而剩䞋的郚分所垶䟆的意矩目前尚未明了還有倪倚癌生過以及正圚癌生或是即將癌生的點點滎滎郜倌埗我去慢慢摞玢。劂果芁造䞀個句䟆描述我粟神䞊所品嘗到的䞀切我想我會把它圢容成「䞍以茉體而存圚的有序的混沌」。

実はアメリカずむギリスにも䜏んでいたこずがありたす。むギリスにいたずきは、ペヌロッパを旅行しおいたこずもあっお、海倖で過ごした時間は私の人生の3分の1を占めおいるのではないかな。このような䞀連の経隓は、時間、空間、物事、そしお人間性に぀いおの考えを深めるのに圹立っおいたす。䞀郚は䜜品に反映されおいるけど、残りの郚分の意味はただわかっおいないかも。起こったこず、起こっおるこず、そしおこれから起こるかもしれないこずのすべおが、萜ち着いおゆっくりず探求されるべきだず思っおいたす。心に浮かんだ気持ちを䞀蚀で衚珟するず、「担い手のいない秩序のある混沌」ずいう感じですかな。



『劂果芁造䞀個句䟆描述我粟神䞊所品嘗到的䞀切我想我會把它圢容成「䞍以茉體而存圚的有序的混沌」。』





Q4. 䜠怎暣看京郜的 scene斌京郜掻動時有沒有䞀些經垞亀流的暂手

京郜に぀いおはどう思われおいたすか京郜で掻動しおいた時に仲良くなったアヌティストはいたしたか

京郜比起我去過的其他城垂芁内向埈倚䜆就像内向的人䞀暣那些被藏起䟆的有趣的事物䜠是芁花時間去摞玢的有些地方劂果没有人介玹䜠甚至連進郜進䞍去圚日語䞭這叫做「䞀芋様お断り」。因歀人脈就變埗非垞重芁奜倚優秀的藝術家就像京郜的血液圚看䌌叀老幜静的建築之䞋川流䞍息。

比劂我經垞去的酒吧「KAZU」隱藏圚兩棟建圚停車堎背后的高暓的借瞫之間芁是没有人垶䜠䜠會以為那里犁止通行圚那里䜠會遇到埈倚垶着光怪陞離的想法䟆買醉的人。

又或是離垂區比范遠藏圚䜏宅區之間的空間藝術會堎「倖」圚那裡我開了離開京郜之前的最埌䞀堎live策劃這堎event的人是我非垞尊敬的去幎才埞東京移居到京郜的圚日本非垞有名的DJ Kotsu埈倚他的藝術理念我郜非垞有感觞胜癌展到今倩這䞀步真的受到了他非垞倚的照顧。同堎挔出的藝術家還有sound designer/ dancer lyo Taniguchi 和sound maker/ DJ E.O.U。我和Lyo Taniguchi圚去幎䞀起制䜜了他的EP《Nichts》我擔任了EP党四銖䜜品的䜜詞䜜曲人聲和呜名這段制䜜經歷圚埈倧皋床䞊幫助我扟到了自己的曲颚。

京郜は今たで行ったこずのある他の郜垂に比べお、より内向的な郜垂だず思いたす。でも、その内向的な人たちず同じように、隠れた魅力を深く掘り䞋げようず思ったら、時間をかけなければならないかもね。誰かに玹介しおもらわないず入れない堎所もありたした。日本語ではこれを「䞀芋様お断り」ず蚀いたす。だからこそ、人脈が倧切でした。倚くの優れたアヌティストたちは、京郜の血のようなもので、アンティヌクで萜ち着いた印象の建物の䞋でシヌムレスに流れおいたす。

䟋えば、私がよく通っおいたバヌ「KAZU」なんですが、駐車堎の奥に建぀2棟のビルの間に隠れおいる。誰も連れおきおくれないず、入り口さえ目に映さないほどです。あそこでは、色んな理由を持った酔っ払いに来る面癜い人たちにたくさん出䌚えたす。

あるいは、ダりンタりンから離れた䜏宅街にひっそりずある空間芞術のハコ「倖」。京郜を離れる前の最埌のラむブはそこで行いたした。このむベントを䌁画したのは、去幎東京から京郜に匕っ越しおきた、私が尊敬しおいるDJのKotsuです。私は圌の゚ンタヌテむナヌずしおの考え方に倚くの圱響を芚え、圌のおかげでここたで来るこずができたずも蚀えたす。このむベントには、サりンドデザむナヌ兌ダンサヌのLyo Taniguchiや、サりンドメヌカヌ兌DJのE.O.Uも出挔しおいただきたした。Lyo Taniguchiずは、昚幎、圌のEP『Nichts』を䞀緒に制䜜し、4トラックのEPで、䜜詞、䜜曲、ボヌカル、ネヌミングを担圓させおいただきたした。この制䜜経隓によっお、自分の音楜スタむルを蟿り着くこずもできたず思いたす。


Q5. 珟圚的音暂路線受到了那些暂手或䜜品的圱響
珟圚の音楜スタむルに圱響を䞎えたアヌティストや䜜品を挙げおください。


受圱響最倧的還是叀兞音暂特别是蕭邊跟執圪西。最近受電圱配暂的圱響比范倧其䞭最喜歡Jóhann Jóhannsson, Apparat和Jun Miyake。䜆本次䜜品的靈感䟆源斌Pink Floyd。

䞀番圱響を受けおいるのは、やはりクラシック音楜で、特にショパンずドビュッシヌですね。最近では、映画のサりンドトラックにも圱響を受けおいたす。Jóhann JóhannssonやApparat、䞉宅玔が特に奜きです。ずはいえ、このEPは特にピンク・フロむドに圱響を受けおいたす。



Q6. 《Is anybody out there?》䞭每個詞——包括「」——各自斷成䞀個個曲名。為什麌遞擇以這皮方法線排曲目

「Is anybody out there?」の各曲名に぀いおは、「」も含めお、それぞれの単語がトラックタむトルに分解されおいるず思いたすが、なぜこのような構成にしたのですか

每䞀個曲名圚我心䞭其寊和每䞀銖歌的詞和旋埋是盞對應的而他們連起䟆又是䞀個完敎的句子對斌本次的䜜品而蚀每䞀銖歌連起䟆又是䞀銖曎加韐倧的曲子。

第䞀銖〈Is〉以英語語法的角床䟆看以「is」be動詞開頭的句子䞀定是䞀個疑問句這也是為甚麌〈Is〉䞭䜿甚了垶有民族和原始感的錓點和旋埋人聲郚分暡仿了狌的嚎叫聲䞊圚結尟郚分䜿甚了reverse的線曲目的是想把時間線和空間點拉回䞖界還是只有倧山倧河䞀切郜還是未知的幎代埞而喚起人們心䞭最本胜的情感。

〈anybody〉是關斌狹矩的「我」與廣矩的「我」之間所進行的意識圢態䞊的談話。第䞀芖角闡述的是以狹矩的「我」䜜為「我」掻圚這個目胜芋手胜觞的䞖界所感受到的可蚀語化的情感。第二芖角代衚的是廣矩的「我」䜜為「我」/ 「我們」掻圚意識空間異次元所感受到的䞍可蚀喻的情感。而這裡所提及的任䜕䞀個「我」/ 「我們」可以是任䜕䞀個人。

〈out〉想衚珟的是䞊述所提到的所有人或意識圢態衝砎任䜕䞀种圢態的牆盞互體會最埌到達䞀個頂點融為䞀體的狀態而那個頂點就是〈there〉,䜆〈there〉到底是哪裡那個狀態到底是甚麌暡暣誰也䞍知道所以最埌以〈〉結束。

〈〉的僅僅是把我開始制䜜這個EP的那䞀倩的蚘憶像獚癜䞀暣念了出䟆就像埞倩際旅行終斌萜地歞根了䞀暣所有倩銬行空的幻想和混沌的答案最終終結斌〈〉䞀個最平凡無奇的瞬間而那些瞬間所垶䟆的力量就奜像枞走圚我身邊的暗流為歀我仍願意圚任䜕䞀個隚機的瞬間醒䟆。其寊打個最奜理解的比方敎個EP的構造就奜像出生或者死亡或者性愛䞀暣哈哈哈。



私にずっおは、どの曲も歌詞ずメロディが察応しおいお、それらが぀ながっお䞀぀のセンテンスになっおいたす。今回の䜜品では、1曲1曲が぀ながっお、1぀の䜜品になっおる感じです。

英文法では、「is」動詞「be」で始たる文は必然的に疑問文になりたす。だからこそ、1曲目の「Is」では、トラむバルでプリミティブなビヌトやリズムが䜿われ、オオカミの遠吠えをボヌカルで暡倣し、゚ンディングではリバヌスでアレンゞされおいたす。その目的は、時間ず空間を、山ず川以倖はただ䜕もなかった時代に戻すこずで、そうするず人間の最も本胜的な感情を呌び起こすこずができるのかなず思っお䜜りたした。

「anybody」では狭矩の「私」ず広矩の「私」ずの思想的な察話をむメヌゞしおいたす。第䞀芖点で描かれおいるのは、芋たり觊れたりできる䞖界に生きおいる狭矩の「私」の、蚀語化可胜な感情で、第二芖点では、意識空間異次元に生きる広矩の「私」の蚀語化できない感情を衚しおいたす。ここでいう「私」や「私たち」は、誰でもあるこず。

「out」は、䞊述したすべおの人々やむデオロギヌが、あらゆる圢で壁を突き砎り、お互いを経隓し始め、最終的にひず぀になったずきの状態を提瀺しようずしおいたす。その頂点がたさに「there」にある。しかし、「there」は䞀䜓どこなのかどのような状態なのかそれは誰にもわからないので、「」で終わらせたした。

「」では、このEPを䜜り始めた最初の日の蚘憶を独癜のようにただ単に喋っおいるだけ。たるで宇宙旅行を終えお地球に戻っおきたかのように、様々な空想や混乱した答えが「」ずいう最もありふれた意倖性のない瞬間で終わっおいたす。そしお、この瞬間に発生したパワヌは、私の呚りにあるアンダヌカレントのようなもので、い぀目が芚めおもいいようになっおいるのです。端的に蚀えば、EP党䜓の構造は、生や死、セックスのようなものです。



『䞀個最平凡無奇的瞬間而那些瞬間所垶䟆的力量就奜像枞走圚我身邊的暗流為歀我仍願意圚任䜕䞀個隚機的瞬間醒䟆。其寊打個最奜理解的比方敎個EP的構造就奜像出生或者死亡或者性愛䞀暣哈哈哈。』




Q7. 盞比歀前兩銖單曲《Is anybody out there?》䌌乎曎泚重衚珟人聲和蚀語的朊朧曖昧。這與EP的創䜜理念有沒有關係


前の二䜜のシングルに比べお、「Is anybody out there?」は、人間の声の䞍明瞭さや曖昧さをより匷調しおいるように感じたすが、これはこのEPのアむデアず䜕か関係がありたすか

非垞有關係。䜆這背埌關乎到的創䜜理念牜扯到了倪倚東西所以我目前只想提及其䞭䞀個小小的思考。圚習埗倚語蚀之埌我有䞀個非垞深切的感受就是「語蚀笊號」埈倚時候䞍是圚幫助我們溝通而是圚促䜿各皮誀解和猜想因為語蚀和物質之間的關係是隚機性的。奜倚時候我會垞垞感芺到被語蚀「出賣」了這䞊䞍是空口無憑的胡說八道也可胜只是因為我倪䞍會聊倩而是關乎到語蚀孞䞊䞀個「雞生蛋蛋生雞」的問題俗皱薩䞕爟沃倫假說感興趣的話可以去了解䞀䞋真的非垞有趣。䜆我想說的是奜倚時候語蚀胜倠絊我們提䟛的信息比我們想像的芁倚埗倚而有的時候卻少之又少。圚那之䞭有真有假劂䜕刀斷最終還是芁去問我們自己的内心。暫時的敵對和盲目的跟随郜是枉費所以䞍管是誰絊䜠提䟛了甚麌暣的遞項䜠郜應該去感受和尋扟屬斌自己的真盞。只甚了解了䜠自己䜠才有可胜去了解和善埅他人。

たくさんあるず思いたす。ただ、このアむデア党䜓に関しおは、単玔に話すこずがたくさんあるので、今回はちょっずした考えをここで共有したいず思いたす。いく぀かの蚀語を孊んでみお、「蚀語」象城は私たちのコミュニケヌションに䜕の圹にも立っおいないどころか、さたざたな誀解や憶枬を匕き起こしおいるように感じおいたす。それは、蚀語ず物質の関係が本質的にランダムなものだからです。私はい぀も蚀語に「裏切られおいる」ず感じおしたっおいたす䌚話が䞋手なだけかもせんけど。䞀般に「サピア・りォヌフ仮説」ず呌ばれる蚀語孊の「鶏ず卵のパラドックス」のような問題やけど、興味のある方は調べおみおください。結構おもろいですよ。ずにかく、私が蚀いたいのは、蚀語によっお䌝達される情報は、垞に私たちが聞いたこずよりもはるかに倚いか、はるかに少ないかのどっちかっおこず。真実ず停りが共存しおいるから。刀断の仕方ずいうのは、結局のずころ自分自身に問いかける必芁がありたす。䞀時的な敵意ず盲目的な远埓はすべお無駄になるこず。だから、誰からどんな遞択肢を䞎えられようず、それが䜕であろうず、垞に自分自身の真実を感じ、远求しようずするべきなのです。自分自身を理解しお初めお、他人を理解し、盞手を優しく扱うこずができるようになるのです。


Q8. 這次的EP由Yosi Horikawa負責混音和mastering。兩䜍合䜜的契機是甚麌合䜜過皋䞭有沒有什麌有趣的經歷

このEPのミックスずマスタリングはYosi Horikawaが担圓しおいるず思いたすが、このコラボレヌションはどのように始たりたしたかたた、今回のコラボレヌションで䜕か面癜い経隓はありたしたか

Yosi Horikawa是我圚京郜時盞識的䞀䜍DJ Alex介玹的我們只通過郵件亀流過還沒有芋過面。芁說有趣的經歷的話對斌我䟆說應該是圚他幫我混音的期間我䞀盎無限埪環他的〈bump〉就為了想像他到底會怎麌矎化我的䜜品哈哈哈。

Yosi Horikawaを玹介しおくれたのは、京郜で知り合ったDJのAlexです。ずっずメヌルでのやりずりしおたので、今でも盎接に䌚ったこずはないです。面癜い䜓隓ずいえば、圌が私の䜜品をどのように完成しおくださるのかを想像するために、圌の「bump」をずっずルヌプしおたこずかな笑。



Q9. 原音暂噚、田野錄音與電子音聲圚䜠的創䜜䞭分別有什麌䜜甚圚䜜品䞭䞉者有著怎暣的關係

あなたの音楜においお、アコヌスティック楜噚、フィヌルドレコヌディング、電子音はそれぞれどのような圹割を果たしおいたすかたた、その3぀はどのように関連しおいるのでしょうか

原音暂噚是我䜜品的地基我䞀般圚寫歌的階段只甚鋌琎。田野錄音只是我的個人愛奜我還是圚靠近自然的地方比范攟的開䞀點。而電子音是為了加重敎體的韐倧感。

アコヌスティック楜噚は、私の䜜品の基瀎ずなるもので、い぀も䜜曲する時はピアノしか䜿わないので。フィヌルドレコヌディングはあくたでも奜みなので、自然に近い方が自由な感じがしたす。䞀方、電子音は䜜品党䜓に巚倧さを加えるために䜿っおたす。




『所以䞍管是誰絊䜠提䟛了甚麌暣的遞項䜠郜應該去感受和尋扟屬斌自己的真盞。只甚了解了䜠自己䜠才有可胜去了解和善埅他人。』




Q10. 胜分享䞀䞋未䟆的蚈劃或展望嗎

今埌のプランを教えおください。

有可胜會嘗詊癌䜈䞀匵只甚鋌琎和人聲錄制的即興挔奏的專茯。

ピアノず人の声だけで録音した即興アルバムを出しおみようかなず思っおいたす。



Yongsi 泳思的銖匵EP 《Is anybody out there?》珟已癌行。

ENGLISH VERSION

Listen to the Select Mix created by Yongsi for HKCR (Currents.FM/ Spotify)


It has almost been two years. Every single day is sterilized, with conversations quarantined by the masks. Our life before – the relationship between the external and us – has been fading into oblivion, that we eventually start imagining a past that we still could immediately embrace the world. But didn’t various forms of sanitizers and masks, different barriers and dividing lines, also exist in the “past”? What is ultimately the thing that we call the relationship between the external and us?

With her first EP “Is anybody out there?” released in August, the Japan-based artist, Yongsi tries to wander around the borders between the self and the other, asking the question “What am I?” again in the ambiguity of language. 

Interview by gari



Q1. Hi, Yongsi. Tell us a bit about yourself.

Hi, my name is Yongsi. It’s my real name given by my mother, which means “may your sentiments be infinite, as everlasting as the eternal flowing water”. I was born in the mountains of Guiyang, Guizhou, but an Earth brought up child. I started composing songs at the age of 12, and released my first digital single Where I Will in 2019. Now I think people would categorize me as an “artist”.


Q2. What brought you to Japan in the first place?

With no special reason. I just felt like it’s time to move on to the new place. Honestly, it could be anywhere.


Q3. Moving from China to Japan – once again, from Kyoto to Tokyo this year – how do such translingual and transregional experiences influence your music?

In fact, I had also lived in the US and the UK for some time. When I was in the UK, I had also been travelling around Europe for a while. Time I spent overseas probably takes up one-third of my life. This series of experiences help me develop some ideas concerning time, space, materials and humanity as well. They are partly reflected in my works, while the meanings of the remaining parts are still yet to be known. Every bit of the happend, the happening, and the going-to-happen deserves to be explored calmly and slowly. If I were to depict what came across my mind with only one sentence, I would say it feels like “an orderly chaos that exists without a bearer”.


Q4. What do you think about the scene of Kyoto? Were there local artists that you got along with when you were active in Kyoto?

Kyoto is a much more introverted city compared to others that I’ve been to. But just like the introverts, time has to be spent if you want to dig deep into those hidden gems. You can’t even get into some places if you’re not introduced by someone – in Japanese, this is called “Ichigen-sama-okotowari” (䞀芋様お断り). That’s why being well connected is so important there. Many outstanding artists are like the blood of Kyoto, flowing underneath those buildings which seem to be antique and tranquil, seamlessly and endlessly.

Like the bar KAZU which I used to go to. It is hidden between two skyscrapers built behind the parking lot. If no one brings you there, you’d probably think entry is restricted. Over there, you can meet a lot of people who come to get themselves drunk for some odd reason.

Or the spatial art venue Soto which is hidden in the residential area away from downtown. I held my last gig there before I left Kyoto. The event was organized by the famous DJ Kotsu, who moved from Tokyo to Kyoto last year, and who I respect very much. I was moved by many of his ideas of being an entertainer, he means a lot to me for being able to come this far. Artists like sound designer/ dancer, Lyo Taniguchi and sound maker/ DJ, E.O.U also performed in the gig. Lyo Taniguchi and I produced his EP Nichts together last year. I took charge of the lyrics, composition, vocal and naming of the 4-track EP. This experience in production helped me find my own musical style to a large extent.


Q5. Could you name artists or works that influence your current musical style?

The biggest influence still comes from classical music, especially Chopin and Debussy. Recently, film soundtracks have also been quite an influence on me. Jóhann Jóhannsson, Apparat and Jun Miyake are my favorites. That said, this EP is particularly inspired by Pink Floyd.



Q6. Each word in Is anybody out there? – including “?” – is broken down into track titles. Why did you choose to arrange the tracks in this way?

To me, lyrics and melodies correspond to each other in every song; and when they are linked together, they form a complete sentence. For this work, as every track is linked together, they in turn form a larger piece of music.

In English grammar, sentences that begin with “is” (the verb “be”) are questions necessarily. That’s why in the first track Is, tribal and primitive beats and rhythms are used, wolf’s howl is mimicked by the vocals, and the closing section is arranged with reverses. The aim is to bring time and space back to the epoch when all were still unknown but mountains and rivers, and by doing so, the most instinctive emotions of human beings can be evoked.

anybody is an ideological conversation between the “me(-s)” in a narrow sense and in a wider sense. What’s illustrated in the first perspective is the verbalizable emotions of “me” in the narrow sense qua “me” who lives in the world that can be seen or touched. While the second one represents the unverbalizable emotions of “me” in the broad sense qua “me” who lives in the space of consciousness (in another dimension). The “me” or “us” here, can be anyone.

out seeks to present the state that when everyone or ideologies mentioned above break through the walls in any form, starting to experience each other and eventually unite in one. This apex is exactly there. But where exactly is there? What is this state like? It is unknown to all, so it ends with “?”.

? is nothing but a word that verbalizes – somehow like a monologue – my memories of the first day I started making this EP. It feels as if I came back to Earth in the end after a space trip, all sorts of fantasies and disorganized answers have ended with a “?” – the most common, unsurprising moment. And the power generated from this moment is like undercurrents around me, so I’m still willing to wake up at any moment. To put it simply, the structure of the whole EP is just like birth or death or sex lol.



Q7. Compared to the two previous singles, it seems that Is anybody out there? has a stronger emphasis on the obscurity and ambiguity of the human voice. Does this have anything to do with the idea of this EP?

A lot, I would say. But there is simply a lot to talk about when it comes to the whole idea of it, so now I’m just going to share a little thought here. After learning several languages, I really feel like “language” (the symbolic) is not helping us communicate at all, it is rather triggering various misunderstandings and conjectures. It’s because the relation between language and the material is essentially random. I always feel like I’m “betrayed” by language, no kidding (maybe it’s just because I suck at talking). It’s related to a chicken-or-the-egg paradox in linguistics that is generally called the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis. Check it out if you’re interested to know more, it’s really intriguing. But what I want to say is that information transmitted by language is always either much more than we have heard, or much less than we have heard. Truth and falsehood coexist. The way of judging, at the end of the day, requires us to ask ourselves. Temporary hostility and blind following  all go to waste. So, no matter who gives you an option – whatever it might be – you should always try to feel and pursue your own truth. Only when you have understood yourself, you are likely to be able to understand others and treat them well.


Q8. This EP is mixed and mastered by Yosi Horikawa. How did this collab start? Was there any interesting experience in this collab?

I was introduced to Yosi Horikawa by DJ, Alex, who I met in Kyoto. We’ve been interacting only through e-mails, so we haven’t met each other face-to-face even now. Speaking of interesting experiences, to me, it’s probably that when he was doing the mixing for me, I kept looping his bump, just to imagine how he would embellish my work, lol.



 Q9. What roles do acoustic instruments, field recording, and electronic sound play respectively in your music? How are the three related in your work?

Acoustic instruments are the cornerstone of my works, generally I only use piano for composition. Field recording is only a sort of preference, I feel freer being close to nature. While electronic sounds are used to add immensity to the work as a whole.


Q10. Could you share your future plans?

I might try to release an improvisation album that is only recorded with piano and human voice.

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Yongsi’s debut EP ‘Is anybody out there‘ ? is out now, listen.