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Mirror One

by Yan Jun and Noel Meek

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1.
a1, m41 04:01
2.
a2, s451 00:51
3.
a3, m201 11:43
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a4, s202 00:21
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a5, m61 06:01
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b1, s203 00:21
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b2, m121 12:46
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b3, m81 08:04
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b4, s201 00:23

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Noise Not Music: "Yan Jun describes Mirror One as “like meteorolites hiting the earth. they are buring in the atmosphere, hiting on ground, smoking, but nobody was hurt. we sitting and watching it from afar. drinking bear, crunching chips through all afternoon. at the end we clapped as well [sic].” The Beijing musician is well known for his practice of artful nonparticipation, often leaving his mysterious electronics systems to do the work on their own while he fixes a cup of tea or “crunches chips,” and one might expect this tape to be no different, especially in conjunction with the artist’s own words on the matter. But even though the two halves of this duo were polarized in separate hemispheres and unexposed to the other’s contributions for the entirety of their collaboration, Yan and Meek’s improvisations are not just active on their own, but actively converse with one another. The Auckland-based Meek, credited with “stone, metal, [and] wood,” is elbows deep in a trunk full of abstract woodland oddities at all times; whether he’s whirling resonant drones from singing bowls and resonant sheets or making a mortar-and-pestle mash of twigs and gravel, his musical gestures are steeped in earthy tactility and wide-eyed exploration, serving as an excellent counterpoint for the raw purity of Yan’s humming, screeching feedback. The pair is at their best, I think, when they’re relegated to completely opposite ends of the texture-spectrum, like in the earlier moments of “M81” when the electronics are stripped to an unstable, anemic whine against percussive clunks like woodpecker pecks recorded from inside the tree. Meek also does some hard-to-define but definitely mesmerizing work with breath on the opening track; I would love to see video footage of the musicians recording their tracks in addition to the layered tracks themselves."

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released March 26, 2021

Released in collaboration between God in the Music and Zoomin' Night.

Noel Meek - stone, metal, wood
Yan Jun - feedback, electronics

Recorded 2020 in Beijing and Auckland
Mastering by Thomas Lambert

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Noel Meek Christchurch, New Zealand

Noel Meek is an
Ōtautahi, Aotearoa based improvisor and composer.

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