CD Track List

CD1 Track List

Favourite sounds of Beijing

01. ‘Have you eaten?’
Date: 15 October 2005
Place: Lianhuachi
Recorded by Yan Jun

02. Beijing wind
Date: 23 March 2005
Place: hutong near Houhai
Recorded by Peter Cusack

03. Character-engraving machine
Date: 25 October 2005
Place: engraving shop in Fuchengmennei Dajie
Recorded by Peter Cusack

04. Dates falling into metal bowls
Date: 13 October 2005
Place: hutong
Recorded by Conservatory students

05. Construction site at night
Date: 15 October 2005
Place: near CAFA art gallery
Recorded by Gao Lei and Dong Xuancheng

06. Hutong street cries
Date: 28 March 2005
Place: hutong near Houhai
Recorded by Peter Cusack

07. Older people singing in choir, Jingshan Park
Date: 16 October 2005, morning
Place: Jingshan Park
Recorded by Peter Cusack

08. Knife-chopper man
Date: 15 October 2005
Place: hutong Xicheng
Recorded by Gao Lei and Dong Xuancheng

09. Newspaper-seller’s loudhailer
Date: 23 May 2005
Place: Houhai
Recorded by Peter Cusack

10. Pigeon whistles
Date: 28 March 2005
Place: hutong near Houhai
Recorded by Peter Cusack

11. Schoolchildren reading in class
Date: 25 March 2005
Place: Huajiadi Nanli Primary School
Recorded by Peter Cusack

12. Telegraph building chime
Date: 6 November 2005
Place: Xidan
Recorded by Yan Jun

Favourite sounds of Chongqing

13. Above monorail leaving station

14. Bus call for passengers

15. Chaotianmen harbour steps late night

16. Ciqikou temple bell

17. Cotton bouncing

18. Distant ship band

19. Double mega hawk

20. Dry thunder

21. Hua Quan

22. Jie Fang Bei rain with distant fanfare

23. Loquat Hill night Frogs

24. Loquat Hill women exercising

25. Mah Tong seller

26. Metal punch machine in CiQiKou

27. Metal wheeled trolley pulled across rainy Jie Fang Bei

28. Outside mahjong

29. Pedestrian crossing clicks

30. Sandal and shoe walking

31. Street shoe repairs

32. Teahouse opera

all sounds recorded by Robert Jarvis ( www.robertjarvis.co.uk)

Favourite sounds of Guangzhou

33. Memory of story telling
Recorded by Yogayoga

34. Flower market of the spring festival
Recorded by Xi Shi Zhenbao

35. Candy floss – a sound that tastes sweet
Recorded by Pentax

36. Melodies in a dim-sum restaurant
Recorded by Xi Shi Zhenbao

37. Morning exercise
Recorded by Lin during a sunny morning with an MP3 recorder

38. Announcement in the Guangzhou Metro
Recorded by An Tong Ni

39. Pearl River Beer
Recorded by Pentax

40. Traffic condition announcement
Recorded by Qi Tian Da Xiao

41. Mummy’s favourite oldie
Recorded by Cooker Jc

Note: All tracks were recorded and submitted by participants to the My Favourite Sound in Guangzhou competition; additional mastering was done during the compiling process.

Favourite sounds of Shanghai

42. Zhen Zheng

43. Sparrow

44. Bells in the alley

45. Morning tune of Shanghai

46. Natural sounds

47. In a small restaurant

All recordings provided by the British Council Shanghai

CD 2 Track list

01 Clive Bell - Six Pigeons (4'16'')
Taken from London Listens To Beijing Top 10, an album created by Clive Bell, commissioned by British Council Beijing for Sound And The City project.

02 Peter Cusack, Clive Bell And Nic Collins - Conservatory Concert (4'30'')
Live at Musicacoustica 2005 Festival in Centeral Conservatory of Music, 26 October 2005; recorded by Kenneth Fields; extracted by Peter Cusack.

03 David Toop - Beijing Water Writing (14'48'')

04 Peter Cusack - Beijing Sonic Bike Ride (8'30'')
Recorded by Peter Cusack; 25 October 2005; near Baitasi, Xicheng District; equipment: Sony TCD-D8 DAT recorder, DPA 4060 microphones.

"Beijing has an amazing soundscape that immerses you as soon as you arrive. It is vibrant, rich and varied, running the gamut from head-banging cacophony to profound quiet. One of its most distinctive features is the ubiquitous sampling loudhailer used by every street vendor to advertise their wears. These devices record eight-second slogans, which playback repeatedly, and loudly, until the batteries run out. This very affordable technology has made Beijing into a city of sound loops and gave the original idea for my participatory sound piece 'Beijing Sonic Bike Ride'.

8 loudhailers are attached to 8 bicycles and used to playback specially created sounds as they are cycled around Beijing's streets. Routes were planned around the Xicheng district so that the bikes would alternate between being together in one group and being wide distances apart. The 8 layers of sound are designed both to work seperately and to harmonise when heard together. One can listen by following on one's own bike or by staying in one place. Bystanders hear the piece emerging in and out of familiar neighbourhood sounds.

The weather for the performance was warm and sunny. People were attracted by the sounds and the occasion. Many wanted to cycle the bikes, so different routes and ways of playing the piece were tried and it grew through the fun of participation.

This track has been edited from the recording made on the day as I cycled around the district myself. Also heard are the sounds of the 'knife sharpener man' who I met en route."

-- Peter Cusack

05 Robert Javis - Untitled (13'15'')
Taken from promotion CD created by Robert Javis, distributed by British Council Chongqing for Robert Javis' sound installation of Sound And The City project.

06 Scanner - Echo Of Flowers (6'22'')
Special version of Flower Echos, an album created by Scanner, commissioned by British Council Guangzhou for Sound And The City project. this track is for this anthology only. not appears on Flower Echos CD.

07 Brian Eno - Ritan Park Bells (10'08'')
Mixed on 9 Nov. 2006.

08 Kaffe Matthews - HORN for ears (10'35")
"HORN was the piece made for Sonic Bed_Shanghai. A piece of "bed music" which is music made to feel rather than just listen to.

Have you ever felt music through your back and spin round your arms to your fingertips? This piece is made for your stereo ears, from the recordings, sometimes processed, made around the Bund, Shanghai spring 2006. Inspired by those boat horns and that blowing damp rain."

-- Kaffe Matthews (www.musicforbodies.net)

Edited by Yan Jun
All tracks created, mixed and mastered by artists
Copyright: British Council, 2005-2006.