This track is the experimental sound counterpart to the visual binary differences series of conceptual works.

Difference Between Listen And Be

This track is the sound counterpart to the Binary Differences visual series of conceptual works

Difference Between Listen And Touch

SOCIAL SENSIBILITY / WORK/LIVE 干活 Beijing 

Peng Lynn 彭浪 

Talking to my grandfather (Hunan Dialect)

Peng Lynn 彭浪 has worked as personal assistant to the CEO of Bernard Controls for over two years. She comes from a countryside area in Hunan province and she is still very attached to her hometown and to its traditions, especially to the sense of freedom, serenity and amusement in daily discoveries during her childhood. She speaks dialect with her mum and she really cares about maintaining this language. Since she started to collaborate with the Social Sensibility R&D Department she has been very curious about art and willingly to share about her interests in both traditional and contemporary literature. She finds the city's tentacular atmosphere too fast and at times oppressive, but she is not a nostalgic. She embraces change even if she does not fully agree with its disruptive speed. She tries to find balance in her attachment to specific principles of rural life and in the psychological mindset she grown up with, in which she continue to find an inner refuge. Her creative explorations and collaborations with the department have always been about oral ancestral culture and spirituality. Music and storytelling stays with her since her childhood.
In this sound -piece, she elaborated a spoken-word text in Hunan dialect to her deceased grandfather, to whom she was very close. This sound-work was included in the following exhibitions: PRECARIAT'S MEETING at MCAM Ming Museum in Shanghai, WAITING FOR WORK at CACHE Space 798 Beijing and REBEL CITIES, at YAM Yang Art Museum Beijing.

SOCIAL SENSIBILITY / WORK/LIVE 干活 Beijing Peng Lynn 彭浪 Talking to my grandfather (Hunan dialect)

WORK / LIVE 干活 Paris-Gonesse

TEENAGER

Sounkarou Dembele / Social Sensibility R&D Department

Lado defines the set of stories passed down from generation to generation in Mali. An oral tradition that perpetuates the customs to maintain peace in the villages. Sounkarou DEMBÉLÉ went to collect the fragments of this memory in the villages of his parents’s origin: TOUROGOUGOU and DOUFAYA. In partnership with the Music and Technology section of the Music Conservatory of the XVIth arrondissement, we have designed a sound installation. It is an invitation where, from the hollow of a piece of an African guitar, the Kori, these tales come to us in snatches as we approach. From the secrets of remedies made with such and such a plant or such and such snake, to the story of the anaconda lurking at the bottom of the lake that can appear as you pass and swallow you whole. Even the animals that must be sacrificed to appease the anger of the biggest snake…. To what time do these stories belong to us and survive us? Knowledge from the depths of time that speaks to us of an anchorage, of roots that build us, of the elsewhere that we carry within ourselves wherever we go. This artistic vision allows us to glimpse the pendulum of hearts between the echoes of the "country" and the life to be built here.

Social Sensibility WORK / LIVE 干活 Paris-Gonesse /  LADO / Sounkarou Dembele

Social Sensibility WORK / LIVE 干活 Shanghai
 
IF I WAS THE VILLAGE CHIEF 假如我是村长

MCAM Ming Museum 明当代美术馆

Zhao Tao 赵涛 / Social Sensibility R&D Department

Social Sensibility / Zhao Tao 赵涛 / If I was the Village Mayor 假如我是村长 (Speech 1)

Social Sensibility WORK / LIVE 干活 Shanghai /MCAM Ming Museum 明当代美术馆  / IF I WAS THE VILLAGE CHIEF 假如我是村长 / Zhao Tao 赵涛

Social Sensibility / Zhao Tao 赵涛 / If I was the Village Mayor 假如我是村长 (Speech 2)

Part of the medicine series, this one is a spoken word reading of the leaflet of TORADOL one of the most powerful painkiller that is normally injected in people dealing with intense pain due to traumatic accidents. It is also available in drops and tablets. the 20mg formula is normally in oral drops.

TORA - DOL 20mg - Ml

This is a spoken word reading of an HSBC bank standard contract to buy and sell financial derivative products.
The text has been modified by hand in order to intercept the jargon and expose its ambiguity and even esoteric quality once certain syntactic elements are erased from the original sentences.

HSBC Illuminations

Blueish Blues is a vivid stream of consciousness recall of images and moments and memories of my life in Beijing. 
It is about flashes and tranches de vie. 
In this performative version, it is improvised as MMA in a jam session together with Artist/Sinologist Ambra Corinti playing the Gu Qin and Artist/Sinologist Edoardo Gagliardi at the synthesizer. We sometimes perform together on text live in galleries and other venues. This poem was later performed at C5 Art Space in Beijing; this specific recording is a studio recording. The poem has been published on the online magazine Shanghai Poetry Lab in 2019.

Blueish Blues

Pulse (II) is a stream of consciousness sequence of words without punctuation It was performed as MMA, in a studio recorded track with Ambra Corinti at the guqin and Edoardo Gagliardi at the synth

Pulse (II)

李山 Alessandro Rolandi
出生于帕维亚，自2003年起生活和工作在北京。曾学习化学、实验剧场、影像制作及艺术史。目前是一名多媒体及表演艺术家、导演、策展人、研究者、作家和讲师。他的作品主要关注社会介入和动态关系，使艺术创作能够突破现有结构、空间及等级制度，直接与现实产生多层次互动。2011年，他在北京和巴黎的伯纳德控制设备有限公司创立了社会敏感性研发部，也是社会敏感性研究院（SoSense）的创始成员之一。
Born in Pavia, 18/04/1971 Studied Chemistry, Experimental Theatre and film-making, History of Art. He has been living and working in Beijing since 2003, as a multimedia and performance artist, director, curator, researcher, writer and lecturer. His work focuses on social intervention and relational dynamics to expand the notion of art practice beyond existing structures, spaces and hierarchies and engage directly with reality in multiple ways. He is the founder, in 2011, and director of the Social Sensibility Research & Development Department at Bernard Controls in Beijing and Paris and one of the founding partners of the Social Sensibility Research Institute (SoSense).

Alessandro Rolandi

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