Sunday afternoon shopping [for soy sauce!] at the Boston Chinese Supermarket (C-mart). 

            In this tasty space, life takes many different forms: the entrance music that occupies its own territory 0:00-0:20; 2:36-end); customers conversing on their wants and needs in Cantonese (0:21 - 0:40; 2:10-2:22); living lobsters breathing in tank [with running water] waiting to be selected, killed and consumed (0:45-1:15; 2:23-2:35); frozen dumplings resting in ice cases (1:22-1:26)while listening to the check-out machine busily reading barcodes (1:27-1:53, transposed); butchers cleaning, peeling and chopping off fish heads using their fine but scary collections of life-taking tools (1:46 - 2:09).  

            All is intertwined and yet at the same time irrelevant. One eats to live; others live to be eaten. Together we breathe.


**Notes on Production**:
           All the sound sources are recorded in C-mart and then re-designed using Ableton Live. Different techniques of editing are applied to reconstruct the ways my senses reacted to this soundscape upon their initial encounter.  


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One of my soundcape projects for the "Technomusicology" class offered at Harvard in Fall 2012, "Living in C-Maht" intended to challenge writing's position as the sole language of ethnomusicologists and instead proposes that multimedia and creative work can also deliver scholarly meanings and become useful tools in pedagogy. This work was selected by the Music Department as part of an online library guide to support the Harvard media authoring bootcamp.

Stacy Huang

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