BEME 5: Market/Place
By Josh, 2016年 10月 26日
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BEME 5: 市场/场地
第五届 北京电子乐偶遇
11月12日,周六 @ 水果空间 (fRUITYSPACE)
门票:70元
早场 (下午4-7点):Bwave 呈献 洪启乐, 阿鸣, 丁晨晨, Azoik
夜场 (8点半-午夜):Maybe Noise 呈献 闫玉龙, 张守望 + more TBA
11月13日,周日 @ 水果空间 (fRUITYSPACE)
门票:70元
下午4-结束:Prajnasonic x Sinotronics 呈献 盛洁(GogoJ), Menghan, GOOOOOSE, L~N, VU, iimmune, MMS
fRUITYSPACE地址:东城区美术馆东街13号(三联对面)
Sinotronics呈献第五届北京电子乐偶遇(BEME),中国最先锋的电子声音展示年度活动。在这次BEME的第五周年,Sinotronics将与3个目前北京最活跃、最具探索性以及最前卫的电子音乐厂牌联合呈献。
BEME 5 的主题是市场/场地:当我们的所有付出都正在被逐个出售、复制、粘贴甚至最终被删除的时候,我们如何以及在哪里制作、购买和售卖另类音乐文化?
在过去两年中,昔日地下音乐和文化发展的场所在北京戏剧化的逐个消失。这其中自然有政治因素,然而最终仍归咎于一个经济问题:小众市场难以扩张,因此利于它发展的部分被剥夺了(演出场地,厂牌,宣传方,艺术家和音乐节),剩下的与之相关的部分(非商业主导的空间,不可被市场化的艺术作品及艺术家,DIY的发起者和以信用为基础的团体)继而被否定或被迫销毁。
BEME 5 从我们现有的资源中着手。Sinotronics带来几个我们已多次特别呈献的艺术家:Menghan(北京)和GOOOOOSE(上海),同时也邀请了另外三个厂牌策划今年2天的演出日程:Bwave(脑波交流),由来自福建现常住北京的跨媒体艺术家洪启乐创办的一个长期活跃的厂牌及活动发起平台;Maybe Noise,由闫玉龙(吹万成员)和张守望(Carsick Cars/White+成员)在近期重建的一个专注于avant-garde和electro-acoustic音乐创作的厂牌;和Prajnasonic,一个在今年发起的以techno音乐为主导的新厂牌,由BEME的常客IImmune和Far Infinity,以及厂牌成员Punx和其他在北京地下另类电子音乐圈活跃的成员们共同创办。
在现场演出之外还将有实体市集,包含数个厂牌、商店、杂志和发行人,他们依旧在国内的几个城市音乐中心努力建立并保持一个线下、地下的市场。市集卖家包括燥眠夜,TATPE Recordings,根茎唱片,大福唱片,NOJIJI,燃音乐,矩阵,The Product Republic等等。
BEME 5的举办场地在fRUITYSPACE。今日的北京场景,随着场地关闭、音乐节取消、资本占位,正被一众效仿的、狭隘的、自娱自乐的文化活动充斥,对身处其中的艺术家和厂牌来说,fRUITYSPACE是罕有的一片绿洲。
BEME 5: Market/Place
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12 @ fRUITYSPACE
Ticket: 70rmb
Early session (4-7pm): Bwave presents Hong Qile, A Ming, Ding Chenchen, Azoik
Late session (8:30pm-midnight): Maybe Noise presents Yan Yulong, Zhang Shouwang, + more TBA
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13 @ fRUITYSPACE
Ticket: 70rmb
4pm-end: Prajnasonic x Sinotronics present Sheng Jie (GogoJ), Menghan, GOOOOOSE, L~N, VU, iimmune, MMS
fRUITYSPACE address: 13 Meishuguan Dong Jie
Sinotronics presents the fifth Beijing Electronic Music Encounter (BEME), China’s most progressive annual showcase of electronic sounds. For the fifth anniversary edition of BEME, Sinotronics collaborates with three of Beijing’s currently most active, exploratory and avant-garde electronic music labels.
The theme of BEME 5 is Market/Place: how and where do we produce, buy and sell alternative music culture when our aggregate efforts are in turn being sold on, copied, pasted, and eventually deleted?
The last two years have seen a dramatic loss in Beijing in terms of places for underground music and culture to develop. There are political factors at work, but ultimately it’s a question of economy: niche markets can’t scale, so the useful parts are stripped off (commercial venues, labels, promoters, artists and festivals), and the rest (non-commercially-driven spaces, unmarketable art and artists, DIY initiatives and trust-based collectives) are negated or passively destroyed.
BEME 5 takes stock of what we have to work with today. Sinotronics will present new sets from a few of our regularly featured artists: Menghan from Beijing and GOOOOOSE from Shanghai. In addition, we’ve invited three other labels to curate this year’s two-day schedule: Bwave, the long-running label and event platform of Fujian-born, Beijing-based multimedia artist Hong Qile; Maybe Noise, a label focused on avant-garde and electro-acoustic composition recently re-launched by Yan Yulong (Chui Wan) and Zhang Shouwang (Carsick Cars/White+); and Prajnasonic, a new techno-oriented label launched this year by previous BEME regulars iimmune and Far Infinity, along with Punx, VU, and other members of Beijing’s alternative electronic music underground.
The live event will also host a physical market including the products of several additional labels, shops, zines, and distributors still trying to make an offline, underground marketplace viable within China’s urban music centers, including Zoomin’ Night, TATPE Recordings, Genjing Records, D Force Records, NOJIJI, RAN Music, Juzhen, The Product Republic, and more.
BEME 5 takes place at fRUITYSPACE, a rare oasis for these artists and labels in the current Beijing landscape of venue closures, festival cancellations, rapacious capitalist appropriation, and imitative, insular, or onanistic cultural organs.