HD Video (12 min. 09 sec., colour, sound), microphone, c-stands, green-screen, vinyl backdrop | dimensions variable

Lingering Sounds (singing speaking synthesising) is a video and sound installation that analytically and sentimentally re-enacts visual and audio syntheses in the making of “mass music” (tongsu gequ 通俗歌曲), an earlier Chinese term for pop music. Looking into the aesthetic and affective patterns behind the singing culture in post-socialist China, the work constructs an ambiguous space of singing and speaking, listening and becoming.
Linger in Sounds (singing speaking synthesising) is the second iteration of a long-term sound project, Linger in Sounds, initiated by Qu Chang and Ye Hui in 2021. Their research seeks to re-listen and re-feel pop music, an important medium embedded in the structure of feeling in post-reform China. Regarding the act of singing as an affective exercise of subject-making, they delineate the ways in which songs and singing haunt us and become us.

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Image 1-3: Video stills, Linger in Sounds (singing speaking synthesising), Courtesy of the artists
Image 4-5: Exhibition View, ON LISTENING, Lotheringer 13 Halle Munich