A Week of Music is a project that focus on the situation of dual identity in daily life.
The first thing we need to make clear is that the creators of these seven albums are not amateurs.
They have each achieved different successes in the field of experimental music, and a stable social job is a basic guarantee while the real world cannot provide a healthy survival mechanism for this type of music.
Work and time are separated into two versions, one belonging to the public rules and the other to one’s own. When these two sets of rules go hand in hand in the daily routine, it is hard to tell what kind of relationship they present to each other.
[Professional or Hobby] [Minority Culture and Mass Culture] [Experiment and Mature Industry Chains], do these seemingly opposing titles have new answers with the development of the times?
There are many artists with dual identity in China, so we have just selected a few familiar friends to express the concept of “daily” through their works, using a simple and public standard of time like “week”as the theme of creation.
If the word “time”is not developed for the purpose of maintaining a public cooperative production, perhaps it can cease to exist.
-Project initiator & curator ：gogoj A.K.A Sheng Jie
A set of seven album on cassette, limit released 100 copies.
Project initiator & curator ：gogoj A.K.A Sheng Jie & Ding Xin
This project is supported by Central Academy of Fine Arts
Project Curators: Ding Xin, Sheng Jie
Mixing / Master Production: Wei Guo
Graphic Design: guangyu@ablackcover.com
Translation:Zhu Songjie & VAVABOND(Friday)
Production: Shan Audio Visual Art Laboratory
Monday By Junky
Member of Torturing Nurse, started on 2004.04.25 till FOREVER!
From the Shanghai，China composed of analogue harsh noise/pure noise group, has now done over 256 performances in Mainland China、Hong Kong、Republic of China、Japan、Denmark、Switzerland、France、Belgium、UK、Spain、Germany；has been published in various brands including the limited cdr、cassette、vinyl、cd，ect in more than 438 recordings all over the world!!
Album Introduction：A mix up of field recordings andharsh noise cut ups. Monday is the beginning of a new week as well as the infinite loop.
Digital Version link: https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/monday-by-junky-a-week-of-music
Tuesday by Maimai
MAI MAI
Film director, experimental musician
1982 Born in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province
2006Graduated from Shanghai Theater Academy
Works and lives in Shanghai
, MAI MAI formed a noise rock band “Muscle snog” vocal, guitarist and song-writer. Since 2008 he started running an experimental music platform: “R.E.S.O.”, in same year, he commenced his personal experimental music project using this pseudonym “MAI MAI”. During these last five years, “R.E.S.O.” has presented more than 20 concerts, and became the most important stage for Chinese and oversea musicians.
As a filmmaker, MAI MAI had made many short film and video works. In 2013, his short film “Four Cowards” was selected by the 43th Tampere International Short Film Festival (International Competition Section).
Album Introduction：
《When Tuesday Still Stood For Something》
No Tuesday any more
As well as Wednesday and Thursday,
Saturday and Sunday,
They’ve all gone
Everything is poured on everything
Floating
No elegy any more
Elegies were gone
That child woke up in the morning
Thinking about the class schedule of Tuesday
Have some music to like
Have somebody to like
When Tuesday still stood for something
Twenty years ago
I go out everyday
Put effort in riding my bike
Recorded at Oct 2020, Shanghai.
Digital Version link: https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/tuesday-by-maimai-a-week-of-music
Wednesday By Mei Zhiyong
Mei Zhiyong , Born in 1984 in Shangdong, China, founder of Fuzz tape label and member of noise group. Mei Zhiyong is one of the most important international noise experimenters and hardware noise instrument DIYERs in China. He is also active in independent film and photography. MeiZhiyong considers noise as the carrier to break all the rules. Only impaling into nothingness can make you get rid of the contradiction between voice and body, and between body and mind. Strong physical action and the obsession of electronic / industrial pieces modification make each of his live performance unique.
Mei Zhiyong has toured in Europe, Japan and China several times since 2014, performed at several experimental music festivals such as Sally Can’t Dance festival, LUFF and MUFF.
Collaborated and performed with many noise musicians all over the world like Torturing Nurse, Dave Phillips, Zbigniew Karkowski, Incapacitants, Makoto Kawabata, Ryosuke Kiyasu and Kazuma Kubota. He is now becoming the new blood of the noise and the experimental music scene in Asia.
Album Introduction：These recordings were made in three different places: office, workshop, and recording studio. The field recording in the workshop is basically my working environment surrounded by all kinds of machine. In the recording, I used planers and drilling and milling machines, along with some sporadic equipment processing sounds around. In some part of the recording, I put my effect pedals and microphones on these kinds of equipment while some other sounds were made in the studio. The word “week” sounds quite wired for people live in the country town. Everyone is accustomed to rest only when some other things come along, not because of the need to relax. “Noise” is part of my work and life. My sound system is right in the corner of my office. Sometimes I play around during coffee breaks, not at specific times and places. Or maybe, I just leave them there by a glance.
Digital Version link: https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/wednesday-by-mei-zhiyong-a-week-of-music
Thursday by Shenggy
Shenggy，Born and raised in Beijing, since 2007, she has been moved to London, continue her music career as a producer and drummer. Shenggy also works for Dover Street Market under the fashion designer Rei Kawakubo.
Album Introduction: I have always been keen to simulate the sounds of synthesizers and various old machines. Their transistors and warm sound quality cannot be copied or replaced. Except for “Gemini”, the 6 tracks you heard all come from a retro analog synthesis sequencer. The musician who has influenced me the most is Laurie Spiegel. She and I have a lot of resonance in composition and identity as a female electronic musician. When the possibility of female composing itself is controversial, we women are more willing to choose electronic music. It allows our creations to be heard by others without being taken seriously by the male-dominated music industry. Instead, we gain more freedom.
Digital Version link: https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/thursday-by-shenggy-a-week-of-music
Friday by VAVABOND
Wei Wei, a.k.a VAVABOND, laptop improviser, noise player. Work as college English textbook editor for a publishing company. Beginning from making large volume noise using Max/MSP in 2006, she now concentrates on free improvisation with synthesis and processed electromagnetic signals. By processing meaningless and fragmented sounds in a nonlinear-time approach, she explores the theme of “time and existence” especially in various environmental contexts. Besides solo project, she is also the member of the psychedelic noise group “Vagus Nerve” and free improvised duo “Mind Fiber”.
Album Introduction: Last October, we moved to the outskirts of Beijing, which is more than 30 kilometers away from my office. My job requires me to clock in from 9am to 5pm, so every morning at about 6:30, I would leave my home in the countryside, drive through a short stretch of provincial roads, and then drive along the congested Jingcheng Expressway for an hour or so to arrive at my office located near the Huixin Dongqiao Bridge.
The recording was made around the time of the Frost’s Descent. When I left home, the sky was not yet fully light and the village was not yet fully awake. The car windows were often covered with a layer of dew, so I needed to start the car and turn on the wipers to wipe it several times before I could leave. But when driving past one of the sluice gates of the Jingmi Division Canal, the gauzy mist suspended on the water surface would cling to the windows again. Need to drive for another two minutes, until the temperatures of the car and the outdoor air gradually melt, the fog on the glass would recede. At this moment, the car would pass a large farmland, so big that the whole sunrise could slide unhindered beside the car for five or six minutes.
The provincial road was undergoing road maintenance, so the road was narrow and bumpy. After driving on it for about fifteen minutes, I would get on the highway. Every Friday, it was only on the initial 5km of the highway that you could drive above 100km/h, and then it would go into a long long congestion. The route on the navigation was filled with bright red and dark red, and the time seemed to enter some kind of inexplicable pause — when you first got on the highway, the navigation told you the trip would be about an hour and a quarter; then you drove for more than half an hour, and a glance at the navigation showed that you still needed to drive for an hour and 20 minutes to arrive.
The time was lost.
The car was driving in the void.
I was traveling in the gap between two worlds.
At home, to be a mother; at the office, to do the job. Only on this congested highway, I got a chance to completely let go. At the beginning of such commuting days, I would feel irritated and talk to myself; now, after a long time, I am completely absorbed in the pause of everything. Driving becomes an all-round three-dimensional meditation. I don’t talk to myself any more, or even don’t start any thoughts. Just let the traffic surge on both sides of my head, like those distracting thoughts. The senses belong completely to the body. No words are needed. It feels like I am running through something invisible. But at the same time, the body and the brain are highly sensitive and commune to each other — the signals captured by the vision are quickly mapped out by the muscles of the arms and legs, as if they do not need to be translated by the brain.
The current of the engine running, the airflow outside the car, the bumps and vibrations from the road, the interference signals from the car radio when passing through the high-voltage electricity towers. On such an ordinary Friday, in the confined and narrow space of the car, my reality was diluted, even dissociated, but in the right way.
Digital Version link: https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/friday-by-vavabond-a-week-of-music
Saturday by Ruò Tán
Ruò Tán，Born in Nanjing and live in France now. He works as a freelance designer and he is also the founder of independent label WV Sorcerer Productions. Music works include “石 Stone”, “Live at L’homme Sauvage” and remix tape “STONE RIVVER” etc. His artwork and design appear in many releases of WV Sorcerer Productions.
Album Introduction：As a freelancer, my perception of days in a week doesn’t clearly distinguish between working days and weekends. For Saturday, what I immediately think of is the origin of its name. In Latin, it’s called “dies Saturni”, in Japanese it’s called “土曜日“, and in English it’s Saturday, which is derived from Saturn. The English name of Saturn comes from Saturnus, the god of agriculture in Roman mythology. The Chinese translation of “Saturn” is named according to the ancient Chinese Five Elements theory and the colors of Saturn observed by human eyes (wood green, gold white, fire red, water black, and earth yellow). In this way, the word “土” has some connection with the Western Saturnus, who is the god of agriculture, teaching people to cultivate the land. Saturday is also the last day of each week. The cycle of the week ends on this day and will begin again. The cycle of life and the universe has never been interrupted. Against such a huge background, pictures about Saturdays slowly emerged in my mind. From the land under my feet to the infinite starry sky, these tracks are the reflection fragments of these images.
Digital Version link: https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/saturday-by-ru-t-n-a-week-of-music
Sunday by Zhu Songjie
Zhu Songjie, civil servant. Play free improvisation, feedback and other kinds of music mainly on guitar. And he also does some translation work in his spare time. In 2019, his tape “Summer Time Blues” was released and book “Genealogy” translated by Zhu was published.
Introduction: Sunday: the day of service, the day of rest, both the end and the beginning of a cycle. We usually regard Sunday as the end of the week. In local customs and dictionary records, it is customary to regard Sunday as the beginning of the week. The traditional order of the seven lunar days is 日月火水木金土. In the Xinhua Dictionary, it is also said that Sunday is the “first day of the week”. The two sorts are the difference between the head and the tail, but in a circle, the beginning and the end may not be that important, especially when the circle itself is a copy of an impossible thing. The creation of the week is our plan settled for time. It is supposed to capture the one-dimensional flow in a certain cycle, and reality will always disrupt this attempt.
Whatever, Sunday is a day that will be cherished in its entirety, because it is (at least in public perception) a day of rest, and it is immediately followed by five working days. This time, the five songs recorded under the theme of Sunday were consisted of covers and improvisation stuffs. These five songs were either recorded on Sunday, or started to conceive on Sunday, and then slowly finished after getting off work every day. They recorded the emotions I feel at various times on Sunday. There are emotions of calm, nervous, happy, and worried, either pure or complex. However, they are generally relaxed. After all, it is Sunday, day of rest. Although Sunday is the end of the weekend, it doesn’t really matter whether it starts or ends, because it is both.
Digital Version link: https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-by-zhu-songjie-a-week-of-music
一周音乐这个项目是一个关于双重身份在日常生活中的探讨。
首先我们需要明确指出的是：这7张专辑的创作者都不是业余音乐爱好者。
他们各自在实验音乐领域里取得过不同的成就，在现实社会无法为这种类型的音乐提供一个良性生存机制的前提下，一份稳定的社会性工作是基本的保障。
工作与时间，被分离成两套版本，一套属于公共的规则，另一套则属于自己的规则。当这两套规则并行于每天的日常中时，很难说清楚彼此之间呈现着怎样的关系。
【专业还是爱好】【小众文化和大众文化】【实验和成熟的产业链】，这些看似是对立的标题是否在随着时代的发展而有了新的答案？
在国内象这样拥有双重身份的艺术创作者还有很多，我们只是挑选了几位熟悉的朋友，以“一周”这样简单而公共的时间标准作为创作主题，通过他们的作品来表达“日常”这个概念。
“时间”这个词如果不是为了维持一种公共合作生产而制定，也许它可以不存在。
-项目发起 & 策划人：盛洁
此项目为7张专辑一套，限量发行100套。
本项目由中央美术学院学术支持
项目策划：丁昕 & 盛洁
混音/母带制作：魏国
平面设计：广煜@ablackcover.com
英文翻译与校对：朱松杰&韦玮
出品：shan视听艺术实验室
专辑名称：周一 by Junky
作者简介: Junky，谋生工作为上海市体育部门工作人员，业余时间制造噪音，2004年组建硬件粗噪音计划Torturing Nurse，组织噪音/声音系列演出NOIShanghai。
专辑简介:实地录音采样+硬件噪音拼贴、混音，周一是新一周的开始也是循环往复的起点。
数字版试听下载链接：https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/monday-by-junky-a-week-of-music
专辑名称：周二 by 卖卖
作者简介：卖卖，1982年出生于江苏徐州，2002年进入上海戏剧学院戏剧影视文学系，在上海工作、生活至今。编剧、导演、实验音乐家。
专辑简介：
《当周二还意味着什么》
哪还有周二
像周三周四的，
周六周日的东西
都消失了
一切被倒在一起
漂浮着
也没有挽歌
挽歌消失了
那个孩子在清晨醒来
想着周二的课表
有喜欢的音乐
喜欢的人
当周二还意味着什么
二十年前
我每天出门
用力骑车
录制于2020年10月，上海。
数字版试听下载链接：https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/tuesday-by-maimai-a-week-of-music
专辑名称：周三 By 梅志勇
作者简介：梅志勇, 生产食品加工设备，个体经营者。1984 年生于中国山东，是Fuzztape的创始人，也是Nojiji噪音集团的成员。梅志勇是中国最重要的国际噪音实验装置和硬件噪音仪器的设计者之一。他积极参与独立电影和摄影。梅志勇认为噪声是打破一切规则的载体。只有深入到虚无之中，才能摆脱声音和身体、身体和精神之间的矛盾。强烈的身体动作和对电子/工业零件修改的痴迷使他的每一个现场表演都独一无二。自 2014 年以来，梅志勇多次在欧洲、日本和中国巡演，在“撒丽不跳舞”、LUFF、MUFF 等实验性音乐节上演出。与世界各地的许多噪音音乐家合作和演出，他现在正成为亚洲噪音和实验音乐的新血液。
专辑简介：录音有三个部分，办公室，车间、录音室，关于机加工车间实地录音，每天的工作环境基本都是跟机械制造关联，录音中用到了刨床和钻铣床，还有周遭的一些零星设备加工的声音，一部分录音我把效果器和麦克风只是放在设备上，另外一部分噪音在录音室完成的，“星期”这个词汇在县城里生活的人其实挺陌生的，大家习惯有事才会休息，不会因为需要放松而休息，“噪音”是我工作和生活休闲的一部分，设备就在办公室的角落里，有时茶歇间摆弄一番，而不是在特定的时间地点发声，有时只是看一看。
数字版试听下载链接：https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/wednesday-by-mei-zhiyong-a-week-of-music
专辑名称：周四 by 沈静
作者简介：沈静，出生并成长于北京，2007年移居伦敦。
音乐制作人兼鼓手，另外的职位是在时尚设计师川久保玲旗下的Dover Street Market里做管理。
专辑简介：
我一直热衷模拟合成器和各种老机器的声音。它们的晶体管和温暖的音质无法被复制和取代。你们听到的这6首曲目除了” Gemini”其余的全部来自复古模拟合成音序器。
给我影响最大的音乐家是Laurie Spiegel. 我和她在作曲以及女性电子音乐人的身份上有很多共鸣。
当女性作曲的可能性本身引起争议时，我们女性更愿意选择电子乐。它使我们的创作可以有机会被他人听到，而不必被男性主导的音乐产业所认真对待，我们反而获得了更多的自由。
数字版试听下载链接：https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/thursday-by-shenggy-a-week-of-music
专辑名称：周五 by 韦玮
作者简介：韦玮，演出代号VAVABOND，笔记本即兴乐手，噪音乐手。全职工作为出版社大学英语教材编辑。早期用Max/MSP软件进行大音量噪音创作，现在的兴趣集中于用自制电感录制的合成和处理信号进行自由即兴创作。通过以非线性时间的方法对大量无意义和细碎的声音进行处理，尤其在各种环境语境中探索“时间”和“存在”的主题。除个人计划外，也是迷幻噪音乐队“迷走神经”和自由即兴双人组“Mind Fiber”的成员。
专辑简介：
去年十月，我们把家搬到了离办公室30多公里的北京郊区。我的工作要求朝九晚五地打卡，所以每天早晨大约6:30，我会从乡下的家里出发，开过短短一段省道后，再沿着拥堵的京承高速公路开上一个多小时，到达惠新东桥附近上班。
录音时是霜降前后。出门时天还没完全亮，村子也还没完全醒来。车窗上往往蒙着一层露水，需要把车发动起来，打开雨刮器擦两下才能出发。不过从京密饮水渠的一座水闸上开过时，水面上悬浮着的细纱般的雾气会再次黏附到车窗上来。需要再开个两分钟，等车身的温度与室外空气的温度渐渐融洽，玻璃上的雾气才会退去。这时便会经过一大片农田，大到整个朝阳可以毫无阻碍地在车身旁滑行五六分钟。
省道正在路面维护，路面狭窄而颠簸。在省道行驶一刻钟左右，便上了高速。每个周五，高速上大概只有起初5公里的路段能开到100公里以上的时速，之后便会进入似乎漫长的拥堵。导航上的路线被鲜红色和暗红色注满，时间仿佛进入某种莫名的停顿——刚上高速时，导航告诉你，预计还要行驶一个小时15分钟；然后你开了半个多小时，看一眼导航，显示还要一个小时20分钟到达。
时间丢失了。
车辆行驶在虚无中。
我行驶在两个世界之间的缝隙中。
在家里，要当妈妈；在办公室，要打工。只有在拥堵的高速公路上，实现了完全的放空。刚开始这样通勤的日子，还会感到烦躁，会自言自语；现在时间长了，便完全沉迷于一切的停顿之中。开车变成一种全方位的立体冥想，不再跟自己对话，不再起任何思绪，任由车流如杂念般在头脑两侧涌动。感官完全属于身体，不需要任何语言，感觉自己正穿越某种无形的事物。但同时，身体和大脑又是高度灵敏地契合着——视觉捕捉到的信号迅速地被手臂和腿部的肌肉映射出来，仿佛不需要经过大脑的转译。
发动机运转的电流，车外的气流，路面颠簸带来的碰撞和振动，车载广播中途径高压电塔时产生的干扰信号。在这样的一个普通的周五，在密闭狭窄的车身中，我的现实被稀释、甚至解离了，但恰到好处。
数字版试听下载链接: https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/friday-by-vavabond-a-week-of-music
专辑名称：周六 by 若潭
作者介绍：
若潭, 南京人，现居法国。设计工作者，自由职业，独立厂牌WV Sorcerer Productions巫唱片创办人。探求扭曲与原始并存的声音，人、机器、自然三者的吞噬与重生，寻找衰败大都会与宇宙虚空的交汇点，实施无边际的声响萨满仪式。
曾组织和参演中国大陆、台湾和欧洲各国的多个音乐节和巡回演出，包括法国“From Seed To Harvest”、南京“噩梦仪式”、北京“山火集”、台北“You Are Not The Target”、“东方噪音集结”欧洲巡演、法国Thoix城堡“Nuit Dark Ritual”、 法国比利牛斯山“Homme Sauvage”、德国“Sons Of An Older Cosmos”和中国“黑礁幻音”等等。合作和同台乐队/音乐人包括Aerial Ruin、Arktau Eos、 Common Eider/King Eider、 Hexvessel、 In Gowan Ring、IZ、 Jo Quail、李剑鸿、Mhönos、Nebelung、钱赓、Rosa†Crvx、破地狱、Treha Sektori、UVB76、王子衡、Zaliva-D等。
曾出版个人音乐专辑《石 Stone》、《Live at L’homme Sauvage》和Remix磁带《STONE RIVVER》，并参与了巫唱片的大部分平面设计。
专辑简介：
作为自由职业者，我对一周里每一天的感知并没有明确的上班日和周末的分别。对周六这一天，我立刻想到的是它的名字的起源，在拉丁语里，是dies Saturni，日语里是土曜日，而英语里是Saturday，来源于Saturn（土星）。土星的英文名字，又来源于萨图尔努斯，他是罗马神话中的农业之神。而中文的翻译“土星”，是根据中国古代五行学说和人们肉眼观测到的土星的颜色来命名的（木青、金白、火赤、水黑、土黄）。这样一来，“土”这个字，和西方萨图尔努斯作为农业之神去教导人们耕种土地，又产生了关联。周六，也是每个星期的最后一天，一周的循环，在这一天结束，又会开始。生命和宇宙的循环，也没有间断过。在这样庞大的背景下，我的脑中慢慢浮现出关于周六一个个的画面，从脚下的土地，到无限的星空，这几首曲目，也是这些意象中的片段。
数字版试听下载链接：https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/saturday-by-ru-t-n-a-week-of-music
专辑名称：周日 By 朱松杰
作者简介：朱松杰，公务员。以吉他为主演奏自由即兴、反馈和其他音乐，同时也做些翻译。发行磁带有《夏日时光布鲁斯》，译有《谱系》等。
专辑简介：周日，星期天，礼拜日，休息日,一个循环的终结与开始。我们通常把周日看作是一周的结束，而在各地习俗以及词典的记录中，习惯把周日看作是一周的开始。传统七曜日的排序是日月火水木金土，在《新华字典》里，也说星期天是“一周的第一天”。两种排序是头尾之差，不过在一个圆里，开头和结尾或许也没那么重要，尤其当这个圆本身是对一个范本，对一个不可能之物的临摹的时候。创造星期是我们对时间的谋划，是要把单向度的流动框定在某种循环里，而现实总是会打乱这种尝试。不过无论如何，周日是个会被完整地珍惜的一天，因为这（至少名义上）是个休息日，而且是个紧接着五个工作日的休息日。这次以周日为主题录的这五首曲子，有翻弹，也有即兴的内容，或是在当天录完，或是在周日起意构思，然后每天下班后回家慢慢完成。它们记录了我在周日的各个时段所感受到的情感，有平静、紧张、快乐和忧虑，或纯粹或复杂，不过，总体而言还是松弛的，毕竟这是周日，是休止符。周日虽说是休止符的终点，但倒也无所谓开始或结束，因为它两者皆是。
数字版试听下载链接：https://shanavlab.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-by-zhu-songjie-a-week-of-music
