ZOOMIN' NIGHT

MTDM (acronym from the Chinese name mei tui de ma, "horse without legs") is the duet of Jun-Y Ciao and Tao Yi, both born in 1978, Year of the Horse. Tao Yi plays drums and trumpet, and Jun-Y Ciao, woodwinds, including different sizes of saxophone and clarinet. Around ...
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ZMY076 | ZOOMIN' NIGHT

Electronics and MIDI instruments recorded in Montreal in August 2024. Samples taken from the original audio of the video recorded in Beijing on July 23 and 24, 1988 and from a mix tape (without credits) given to me at that time
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ZMY079 | ZOOMIN' NIGHT

This album was recorded in the winter of 2024 at home. Side A was recorded by a Sony D100 recorder with electric guitar, Ebow, clips, slides, and auto electric fan. Side B was recorded through DAW with electric guitar, Ebow, effect pedals and expression controllers. The ...
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ZMY082 | ZOOMIN' NIGHT

A remote collaborative project. Three of the pieces were recorded at the same time on three consecutive "Mondays/ Tuesdays" wherever we were- Zhu Wenbo in Beijing recorded Tuesday mornings and Noah Ophoven-Baldwin in Minneapolis recorded Monday evenings. Five of the ...
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ZMY081 | ZOOMIN' NIGHT

Reminiscenze: vague and distant memory, nearly lost in oblivion. Form and structure of the past to which the author refers consciously or unconsciously. The pieces aim to translate the sound quality of the voices of Renaissance music into acoustic saxophones through the ...
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ZMY074 | ZOOMIN' NIGHT

The members of Nichijo are Zhao Ziyi and Yang Kuku. In this project they do normal everyday things.In November 24, 2024, they recorded 17 pieces in a residential community in Sanyuanli, Beijing. 3 pieces were abandoned ( standing, lying, sitting, doing nothing / drawing ...
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ZMY083 | ZOOMIN' NIGHT

"In "Handle, Nail and Rubber Dinosaur", Jun-Y Ciao plays soprano saxophone and Zhu Wenbo plays clarinet. Before recording there was very little pre-planning, the only decision was that they each play a few short passages. They recorded a single take, during which there ...
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ZMY071 | ZOOMIN NIGHT