LI YILEI是生活在伦敦的观念艺术家、实验音乐人。
她的专辑《之/OF》在2021年发行后受到了全球知名媒体如 Mixmag、Dazed的关注，产生了国际影响力。
（不知道是不是英籍华人，没找到更详细的介绍）
Review:
Mandarin Chinese is filled with ambiguities; slight variations in tone can yield completely different meanings for otherwise homophonic words. Translation, then, is an understandably tricky affair. And on their latest album 之 / OF, synesthetic sound artist Li Yilei attempts an even more difficult translation from poetry to music. Growing up with undiagnosed Asperger’s, Li is familiar with the tenuous relationship between language and meaning. In this new record, they have crafted 12 ambient tracks to represent 12 poems associated with each hour, musing on the effect that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on our understanding of time. Each track title is a singular Chinese character and its English transliteration; but without context, deciphering their meaning is sometimes a challenge. Some are clear references to nature: the stark drones and samples of cresting waves in “HAI / 海“ recalls the sheer vastness of the sea. Others are more abstract: “CHU / 處” could refer to a place of residence, or a punishment to be meted out. The track’s warm analog synth sequences might suggest the former instead of the latter. Linguistics aside, the sonic language that Li works with on this record is lovely to the ear, wrangling field recordings, synthesizers, guqin, and violin to evoke a wide range of emotions. There’s a pensive mystique to the polyrhythmic synths and erratic clicks in “YUN / 暈”, an ominous foreboding to the dissonant percussion and vocal samples discussing “spiritual terrorism” in “YAN / 言” . The album’s fragmentary titles are, in part, explained by a poem on its cover: “it is an unfinished tone, a broken sentence, a start and a whole.” On the bottom right in Chinese is “無休止”, which translates to “endless.” A cycle of 12 tracks as hours on a clock, “之 / OF” is a microcosm of the new normal and its attendant sounds and emotions.
‘’之 / OF is a word that can be used as a preposition to express the relationship between a part and a whole. It is an unfinished tone, a broken sentence, a start and a whole. It is sustainable, full of potentials and longings.’’
London based performance and sound artist Li Yilei shared an experience familiar to many migrants during the past year of COVID-19 chaos. With their UK visa set to expire, and family back in China, Li made a last-minute dash to return to their nation of birth. Able to board one of the last few flights to China during the initial turmoil of the coronavirus outbreak, Li made it back to Shanghai for a two-week stint in a quarantine hotel.
Though Li had already begun creating OF, the reality of the pandemic began to seep into the recordings. Each of the 12 tracks is a study in horology, using metaphorical sound transcriptions and atmospheric extractions to focus on the temporal relationship between experience and surroundings. Li’s awareness of their own understanding of time became increasingly heightened during quarantine and the emotional involvement found within these new realities informed many of the sounds created.
‘’I tried to portray each song as a short, scattered poem... - a moment that I captured to represent each hour.’’
Composed using analogue synthesisers, vocal samples, field recordings and string instruments such as the violin and guqin, Li indulges in moments of grief, panic, healing, cessation, melancholy, vastness, hope, joy and emptiness as they explore the acoustic relations between humans and the many forces of nature.
The art of the Song Dynasty, with its ancient traditions of poetry and timekeeping, were also great sources of inspiration for the album - whilst paintings from the period, specifically those of flowers and birds, are common themes throughout the tracks. Indeed, it is within the vastness of time that the album artwork comes to relevance. The eighth emperor of the Song Dynasty, Huizong, was a revered artist and a scene from his work ‘Finches and Bamboo’ adorns the album cover.
之 / OF is available from August 16 2021 in a limited pressing of 500 140gm vinyl in a natural translucent colourway. In support of the release Li has made a limited number of handmade xun (a traditional Chinese vessel flute used as far back as 7000 years ago) - these can be purchased from Metron Records bandcamp page. more
Track Listing:
1.TAN / 潭 01:57
2.CHU / 處 02:23
3.HUO / 惑 04:15
4.WEI / 未 02:13
5.HAI / 海 03:43
6.NEI / 内 03:37
7.MUU / 木 02:10
8.SAN / 散 02:06
9.XUN / 旬 03:49
10.YAN / 言 02:20
11.YUN / 暈 05:12
12.KOU / 口 03:15
Media Report:
Genre: ambient, electronic
Country: China
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
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