Published:
February 25, 2016
The young Italian tape label Artetetra, interested in exotic, psychedelic and ethnic sounds, is releasing Erhai Floating Sound, a new work by King Gong aka Laurent Jeanneau: the man behind many wonderful records produced by Sublime Frequencies like "Music of Tanzania" and "Ethnic Minority Music From Southern China".
"Erhai Floating Sound" is a spatialized live sound performance which took place on Erhai lake in Dali, Yunnan, China in may 2010, involving Laurent Jeanneau aka Kink Gong and Julien Claus. The electronic sounds were produced on a small shing boat inside the lake connected by underwater cables to other four boats, each of them
carrying a speaker. This tape is a stereo version of the quadraphonic performance of Kink Gong and it's about an hour long.
King Gong has also released music on Discrepant and other labels and has performed at this year's CTM festival under the Kink Gong moniker. He is an electroacoustic composer, ethnomusicologist and Sublime Frequencies contributor, who has released more than 150 CDs concerning recordings of ethnic minority music, mostly from south-east Asia taken in more than 15 years of activity. The electroacoustic activity of Kink Gong is based on the deconstruction of the original recordings, which focus mostly on vocal and local instruments like gongs, mouthorgans and string instruments, into soundscapes and cut-ups. He has released on Kwanyin (Beijing,
China), Atavistic (Chicago, USA), Ppt Stembogen (Paris, France) and Discrepant (London, UK).