Me & Yoko Ono is an amalgam of sound recordings from my old iPhone (2013-2016). It blends an ambient recording from Mao’er hutong in Beijing with excerpts from other environments as: taxi ride in Hong Kong, Yamanote trainline in Tokyo, press conference of an unknown artist, soprano performance by Yoko Ono (at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo), sound (noise) performance by an unknown artist (Tokyo), and a sound performance by Tatzu Nishi (Tokyo). 

The idea is to compress space-time and to take the audience to a non-journey. The background recording is left to develop itself ‘randomly’ merging with the other sounds. The loose editing is inspired by John Cage’s chance operations, whereas the usage of sound recordings as sculpting material is direct reference to Brian Eno’s music theories.

Me & Yoko Ono

Elitza Koeva

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