Miji Festival (Ears for Improvisation, Experimental Music and Noise)

This festival was developed from a small tour of FEN (FarEast Network). It was supposed to be issue no.11 of Miji Concert organized by Sub Jam. Its aim is connect and react with sound experiments in different places through the medium of improvised music.

Since FEN’s establishing in Marseille, 2008, these four musicians from four different Asian countries were trying to organize concert in their own cities and anywhere around the world. They are trying to meet and play with each other, and with other musicians. After 6 months preparing, follows changing, it developed to a concentrated festival.

Each concert is an event. It was brewed from people’s will and reality. Sound is the only materials of building the world during playing and listening. And human is wild animal with ability of thinking.
Again, with effort of volunteers and support of friends, the stage is born.
Miji, one of its meanings is, Intense.

information: www.subjam.org

concert, film screen, lecture and publication
January 2-11, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xiamen, Fuzhou

artists: Otomo Yoshihide (JP), Ryu Hankil(KR), Yuen Cheewai (SG/TH), Yan Jun (CN), FEN (JP/KR/SG/TH/CN）, Chikara Iwai (JP, film maker), Kai Fagaschinski (DE), Sin:Ned (HK), Li Jiahong (CN), Feng Hao (CN), Li Zenghui (CN), Mafeisan (CN), Liu Xinyu (CN), Jun-Y Ciao (CN), Mai Mai (CN), Torturing Nurse (CN), Tao Yi (CN), Xu Cheng (CN), Free Music Collective of Shanghai (CN), Yin Yi (CN), Wang Changcun (CN), Liu Yanan (CN, dancer), G is X is Y (FR/CN), VAVABOND (CN), Dongfeng Impro Committee (CN), Martijn Tellinga (NL, tbc), Jiang Yuhui (CN, scholar), Adel Wang Jing (CN, scholar)…

Concert Program (see www.subjam.org for update)：

Beijing
Venue: 2Kolegas Bar (www.2kolegas.com)
Ticket: 100rmb/day, 160rmb/two days; online pre book 80rmb/day; more online book package: www.musikid.com; info: subjam@gmail.com

January 3rd: pm 7:00 door open, pm 8:00 concert start
1, Li Zenghui + Yan Jun + Sin:Ned; 2, VAVABOND + Yuen Cheewai + Kai Fagaschinski; 3, Liu Xinyu + Ryu Hankil; (30 minutes break) 4, Otomo Yoshihide + Li Jianhong; 5, Dongfeng Impro Committee

January 4th: pm 7:00 door open, pm 8:00 concert start
1, Ryu Hankil; 2, Yuen Cheewai; 3,Yan Jun; (30 minutes break) 4, Kai Fagaschinski + Feng Hao; 5, FEN; 6, Mafeisan + Sin:Ned

Shanghai
Venue: Rockbund Art Museum (1FL Associate Mission Building, Yuanmingyuan Road 169; www.rockbundartmuseum.org)
Ticket: 50rmb/day; pre book and member price see venue announcement; info@rockbundartmuseum.org; audioripple@gmail.com

January 5th: pm 6:30 door open, pm 7:30 concert start
1, Yin Yi +Wang Changcun; 2, Ryu Hankil + JunY Ciao; 3, MAI mai + G is X is Y; (20 minutes break) 4, Kai Fagaschinski +Yan Jun + Liu Yanan; 5, Otomo Yoshihide + Xu Cheng + Sin:Ned; 6, Free Music Collective of Shanghai

Januray 6th: pm 6:30 door open, pm 7:30 concert start
1, Kai Fagaschinski + MAI mai; 2, Yuen Cheewai + Tao Yi; 3, FEN; (20 minutes break) 4, Otomo Yoshihide; 5,Torturing Nurse + Sin:Ned

Hanzhou (“Deleuze and Sound: Sound Art Lecture and Concert”)
Venue: School of Media and International Culture of Zhejiang University (426# main building, Xixi Campus, Tianmushan Lu 34, Xihu District)
Ticket: free; book online: www.musikid.com; info: adel.wang@gmail.com
January 8th: pm 7:30
Ryu Hankil, Sin:Ned, Yan Jun, Xu Cheng, MAI mai

Xiamen
Venue: Ji He Art (Long Hu Shang Lu 2697, Siming; tel: 2510177）
Ticket: 60rmb; book online: www.musikid.com; info: 139603310@qq.com
January 10th: pm 9:00
Ryu Hankil, Sin:Ned, Yan Jun, Martijn Tellinga (TBC)

Fuzhou
Venue: Xiu Space (Guanglufang 79, Sanfang Qixiang)
Ticket: 60 rmb; book online: www.musikid.com; info: 139603310@qq.com
January 11th: pm 9:00
Ryu Hankil, Sin:Ned, Yan Jun, Martijn Tellinga (TBC)

Film Program (Chikara Iwai’s “Kikoe”):

Beijing
Venue: UCCA Contemporary Art Center
Ticket: 15rmb, student 10rmb (for member and pre-book pls contact: info@ucca.org.cn)
January 2nd: pm 7:00

Shanghai
Venue: Rockbund Art Museum (1FL Associate Mission Building, Yuanmingyuan Road 169; www.rockbundartmuseum.org)
Ticket: TBC; info@rockbundartmuseum.org
January 6th: am 10:30

Xiamen
Venue: Ji He Art (Long Hu Shang Lu 2697, Siming; tel: 2510177）
Ticket: free
January 10th: pm 3:00

Fuzhou
Venue: (Guanglufang 79, Sanfang Qixiang)
Ticket: included in concert ticket
January 11th: pm 7:00

Lecture Program:

Shanghai
Venue: Rockbund Art Museum (1FL Associate Mission Building, Yuanmingyuan Road 169; www.rockbundartmuseum.org)
Ticket: free; info@rockbundartmuseum.org
January 6th: noon 12:00
Kai Fagaschinski: Improvised Music and Berlin

Hangzhou (“Deleuze and Sound: Sound Art Lecture and Concert”)
Venue: School of Media and International Culture of Zhejiang University (426# main building, Xixi Campus, Tianmushan Lu 34, Xihu District)
Ticket: free; book online: www.musikid.com; info: adel.wang@gmail.com
January 8th: pm 3:00
Jiang Yuhui, Adel Wang Jing, Sin:Ned and Yan Jun: Deleuze and Sound

Xiamen
Venue: Ji He Art (Long Hu Shang Lu 2697, Siming; tel: 2510177）
Ticket: free
January 10th: pm 4:30
Yan Jun and Sin:Ned: Music for Listening

Organizer: Sub Jam, BM Space, Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum
Co-organizer: Musikid, Pangbianr, 2Kolegas, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, School of Media and International Culture of Zhejiang University, Be Brand
Mibile Shop: Sugar Jar
Support: Goethe Institute China
Thanks: RockBund, Sennheiser