http://www.echoho.net/211647/2258179/selected-works/slow-qin
Interesting transparent electric Qin!
Echo Ho
Echo
Ho is a contemporary artist born in Beijing who lives and works in
Cologne. Her artistic practice often shows a complex migrational context
and conceptual links of culturally diverse materials and artistic
discipline. She implies aesthetic strategies of ancient China and
translates these into the new globalised media technologies and
materials. In her sounds, noises, voices and music many of the
principles of a remembered life are connected both spatially and through
installation; it is a search for a place amidst rapid changes in all
areas of life. Principles of randomness, the oracle-like and the
complexity of (mostly urban) landscape images are transformed into
everyday life and create dreamlike scenarios: Memories, or better yet,
false memories of a fantasised past and an intangible future. The
modular construction creates an onomatopoeically distorted, poetically
strange and “un-homely” world, consisting of subjective experiences and
the search for a homeland, but also of globalised artefacts. In Ho’s art
works, which ranges from audio video installations and sound art
interventions to live intermedia performances, the power of the old is
equally as apparent as the potential of the new. In her current project
»Resembling Shanshui – Tuned To Site« Echo Ho re-invented the oldest
traditional Chinese string instrument »Gu Qin« into a »Slow Qin«. She
extended its functions for sensory field recording in urban space and
enabled it to become a wireless interface for controlling self-built
music software. From 2007 to 2013, she worked as assistant professor at
Media Academy of Media Arts Cologne, she teached in the area of sound
and video art.
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