Zhang Liming - (Un)familiar Territories: Manchester Headphone Walks FLAC

Zhang Liming Field Recording Sound Collage Experimental 2008

Tracklist

1	Manchester Headphone Walks pt.1	15:06
2	Manchester Headphone Walks pt.2	16:28

Notes

https://zhangliming.bandcamp.com/album/un-familiar-territories-manchester-headphone-walks

(Un)familiar Territories is a series of headphone walks which transport the listener to the streets of Shanghai or Harbin while taking in the sights of Manchester city center during 24 May - 22 June 2008. Chinese sound artists Yan Jun and Zhang Liming have created carefully edited sound works linked to locations on a half hour walk around Manchester city center.

Using noises captured from the bustling markets, streets, restaurants and industrial sites of their respective cities, the works offer an experience of everyday life in China as the listener encounters familiar territories in unfamiliar ways. Yan Jun and Zhang Liming were each sent sound recordings, images and descriptions of locations on a route around Manchester which takes in Exchange Square, Market Street and the Northern Quarter.

The artists then gathered music, conversation and everyday sounds from corresponding locations in Shanghai and Harbin to create an eleven track headphone walk around Manchester city centre. Contrasted with the surroundings in Manchester, the dislocated sounds offer a unique insight into life in China.