Listen to the recording of ‘Sounding Spaces: Documenting Sound Practice in Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong Since the 1990s’. The event is the first session of Errant Listening, an experimental, open-ended programme series that attends to the sonic dimensions of contemporary artistic practice, documentation, and curation. The series explores how sound wanders, unsettles, and exceeds the structures that seek to contain it.
In the recording, Dr Edward Sanderson presents insights from more than a decade of research and fieldwork on sound art and experimental music in Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong, discussing recent projects including an exhibition at the Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing and the development of a physical sound archive in Hong Kong. The presentation is followed by a conversation with Dr Zhongwei (Mabu) Li, whose work on music, subcultures, and media formats in 1990s China expands the discussion to consider longer-term shifts in cultural circulation, listening practices, and alternative spaces.