Yiping Li

"A Rapist In Your Path"

Section MS11, Mhamad Safa

Keywords: noise, sound music, protest

This work unpacks the ways in which sound is used as a medium of transnational influence. In contrast, to known and popular music distribution, this investigated piece did not begin from a musical platform. Rather it was distributed along the sites of protest. In addition, participants and their sonic intervention had multiplied through remote territories amplifying the meaning of this musical content. The project will use an array of found footage from different sites where a particular Chilean protest song was used. This practice and its repetitions will attempt to synchronise the video until an intersection emerges. A screen recording of a constant attempt to synchronise the found footage of the protest songs will highlight the different forms of interaction between music, the public sphere and media objects.