Name: Chin Li A Votive Song New Version by Chin Li
Duration: 7 min 54 s
Description: Poetry as requiem: mourning the passing of a once great city - remembering Hong Kong 2019.

A talking head monologue: Reflecting on his life, a man finds it almost impossible to understand any of it. And the conundrum is to do with an ordinary wall in an ordinary street.

Broadcast on Radiophrenia, the Glasgow-based art radio station, on 9 February 2022.

Broadcast on Radiophrenia, the Glasgow-based art radio station on 9 February 2022.

The Wall at the End of the Street

Poetry as requiem: mourning the passing of a once great city - remembering Hong Kong 2019.

Chin Li A Votive Song New Version

Across the abyss of time, unfinished tableaux are re-enacting sepia stories that have lost their meaning, without any promise of the return of hope.

Broadcast on Radiophrenia, the Glasgow-based art radio station, on 10 November 2020.

Beyond The Garden - A Love Story

The tragic is the essence of life from which no one could escape... just as there seems to be a glimmer of hope on the horizon after unforgettable and unspeakable suffering, everything could still come crashing down...

Broadcast on Radiophrenia, the Glasgow-based art radio station, on 20 May 2019.

The Feather and the Hand

Feelings of nostalgia intensified by a sense of incomprehension in the flux of life.

First broadcast in the Glasgow Lights Out Listening Group on 19 September 2018.

Winter poetry 1 - lingering

A homeless cat in a desert night falling into the dream of a young woman...

First broadcast in the Glasgow Lights Out Listening Group on 29 July 2020.

winter poetry 5 - night in the desert

When does sound become meaning, and meaning being communicated?

Whisper 5: the sense of nonsense

"Poetry is but words / Words are but sound / Sound is movement of air brushing ear drum / When air stops, ear drum stays still / Words vanish / You would ask, would you not? / Where has the poet gone?"

Broadcast on Radiophrenia, the Glasgow-based art radio/sound art radio festival, 07 April 2025.

Chin Li - A Few of Everything

A mythical tale of a girl turning into a kingfisher.

First broadcast in the Glasgow Lights Out Listening Group on 27 November 2018.

Chin Li A Votive Song New Version

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