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By far the loudest and densest urban 360° noise I have experienced in China is in the city centre traffic of Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Beijing. A sound occurs almost never isolated from others. Even in interior spaces the low frequency field of traffic noise seeps in through the walls. 'Yes, China' is a survey of the acoustic urban space with emphasis on such sounds and situations which bind the people's attention or enable identification with the location.

Inside urban, physically aggressive noise, the head's interior space is often the only retreat. In the flowing and bass dominated sonic world of subways, motor coaches and construction sites, different sound sources of higher frequencies are able to push through: crickets, sound signals at traffic lights, steam pressure-relief valves in Beijing's 798 art zone, a priest's painfully resonant brass bell.

During recording many of those sounds I worked without monitoring headphones, positioning microphones merely according to experience. When one listens in realtime to the exterior world within which one resides with open mikes and on headphones, big alienation effects will quickly show up. Loudness proportions seem distorted, shifted. Localization will change according to the employed microphone type and be limited already by the use of stereo headphones. Even when position and microphone characteristics largely coincide, the perception of the sound on location will mutate.

The active mind edits the experienced and recorded sounds into a sonic world which, as it were, steals and internalizes the contours of the outer world. At a different time, different place, and for a new listener, two interior headspaces melt: the one formed by the composer and the one experienced by that listener. Both refer to two allegedly similar exterior spaces: the one experienced by the composer and the one which the listener would imagine.

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from framework​​​:​​​seasonal :​​​:​​​: issue #1 :​​​:​​​: autumn 2011, released September 23, 2011

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