SAMPLING / REMIX 125 DOX LIVE: CONCERTS & PARTIES
Fengming JÓHANN JÓHANNSON A Chinese+Memoir BEN FROST DIRECTOR Wang Bing
Classical music with electronic undercurrents - Jóhannsson and Frost visit CPH:DOX In this film, the Chinese journalist and teacher He Fengming talks about theyears, fears she had tomusic endure during Cultural Revolution. In recent classical has been Mao’s dynamically chal-
artists such as Swans and Arvo Pärt, or modern classical pioneers
Her husband three essays criticising bureaucracy, which lenged by newwrote and visionary artists from thethe modern electronic
such as Michael Nyman or Max Richter, who are closer to Frost’s
led them bothwhich to be accused of being endowed right-wing and therefore music scene, has consistently it with new space,
universe. Frost’s music spans from subtle crackling to monumental
anti-revolutionary, and they were each sent to amovement prison camp to be contents and relevance. At the forefront of this stands
waves of riotous symphonic beauty of an almost Wagnerian
‘politically rehabilitated’. He Fengming talkswho in heart-rending detail the Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannson, with his romantic
orchestral dimension. Her highness Björk has of course already
about her 30-yearaural battlespheres to survive, andaunfortunately story is and supernatural unites unique senseher of beauty
made use of Frost as both a remixer and programmer. This is Ben
not unique. During the Cultural Revolution, a million with a dark and daunting musical universe -around close tohalf Arvo Pärt, but
Frost’s first performance ever in Denmark. And this, even if he has
Chinese accused ofstyle. beingWith counterrevolutionary sent toas still with were his own unique Statens Museum and for Kunst
performed on the most prestigious stages and electronic music
concentration camps - often to Jóhannsson meet their deaths. The director an exclusive backdrop, Jóhann will perform on piano
festivals across world.
Wang Bing has earlier investigated the serious consequences of and electronica, accompanied by Iceland’s foremost string quartet thewell explosive growth of Chinese industry in the award-winning opus as as Mathias M.D. Hemstock on electronica and percussion. ‘West of the Tracks’, in this film he uses more with or less one camJóhannsson, who hasbut previously worked together renowned era setup to as focus onAlmond one single to remind us the crimes artists such Marc andperson Barry Adamson, hasofalways had and human rights violations by the a strong cinematic dimensioncommitted in his works, andcommunist the concertregime. is sup‘He Fengming’ is a significant and authenticoftestament of a difficult plemented by nothing less than a premiere a visual show created and on conflict-ridden period China’s Helgason. history, which still lives on live location by the artistinMagnús in the lives of older Chinese people, but which is gradually being forgotten asartist a result of the sweeping in Chinese society. The second of the evening, Ben changes Frost, evokes memories of both Autechre, Murcof and Aphex Twin, but in reality it’s possibly
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He Fengming / Kina 2007 / 186 MIN. / PROD. Wil Productions / Distr. Wil Productions Ltd