Soundscape No.2: The Last Dialogue

The Last dialogue

Artist Statement


“He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” in the Bibel Rev 21:4.

What are the sounds of dying？How to present the bitter feelings and painful emotions behind the sounds？It’s really hard to image clearly. Compare with the classical works in the visual art history, using sounds to describe death is quite a complex problem. An important sound artist, Yannick Dauby, have tried to record the sounds of an insect dying before. It sounded quite peacefully, leaded the listener to think about death in an alternative way.

In this work , i did not capture the last picture of a human life journey. It recorded ordinary scenery happened in a ward with my family, estimating the blood pressure, the tender reminding etc coincidently.

Suddenly, my mother passed away the day before yesterday, and it just became the last dialogue between us. It sounds ridiculous for me because somehow I try to find the sounds describing death difficultly. Finally, the last words spoken from my mom to me is powerful and heart-breaking than any other sensational sounds. I just try to maintain the original sounds recording, using less post-production techniques in this work to memorize my mom and invite the audience actively listen the trauma behind the sounds with me.

Soundscape No.1: Public fears in the private spaces

Public fears in the private spaces by teddysteve


Artist Statetment

The work "Public fears in the private spaces" i made from recording the private experience in my dailylife. For taking showers and going pees in my daily life, these are quite normal but individual privacy experieces.

Nowadays, in the digital age, we have easily gotten a virtual identification in the reality world, even if we can pretend to be anyone in this virtual world, we still have to face to our isolate real world. We even do not know ourselves.

From this work idea, i just want to expose the reality behind the sounds in our daily life with nature habits -- the water noises by cleaning behaviors. I hope listening the water nooises may awake some parts of our awareness to realize: the relationship between each other in the real world is quite unique and valuable. Maybe the real fear is not in the publics, always behind in our private spaces.