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2002

20032006西西

We-Make-Money-Not-Art




2002 EP 2002
2003
C12004
C12004
2005
2005
3"CD2006
UBU2007
2007
4x3"CD,2007
3"CD2007
2008
3"CD2008
2009
Surface2009




2006.10 西 西
2008.05 -
2009.08




http://www.hitlike.com/
http://www.icebreaking.org/

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Zhang Liming (aka Hitlike), born in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, 1981, programmer, field-recordist, now living in Harbin, Northeast China.

He defines himself as a mere listener who, since 2002, occasionally creates field-recording based sound works that are concerned with acoustical textures and the meeting between the subject and environmental objects. As an unsociable person, he spends most of his time roaming the internet, through which he also releases his works.

In 2003, Zhangs first soundscape album Summery Shuangjing Sound Sections, recorded in his hometown with a low-end mono cassette recorder, was released online. Later the same year he launched the Harbin Ice-breaking Social Organization with several friends to research and discuss any noteworthy events or issues in the art scene. After two further experimental net-releases and a part in the compilation The Sound of Silence (reconfiguration records), his debut CD in was released by Little Sound, Chinas respected 3 CDR label, in 2006. The track Walking from this album was included in the China Power Station Part I exhibtion at Battersea Power Station, London, 2006.

Zhang have taken part in We-Need-Money-Not-Art, a translation workgroup for the new media art blog We-Make-Money-Not-Art, and he is also the founder of the Sound Art Forum at Douban.com.


discography:

2002 Internet EP (Gaea, 2002)
Summery Shuangjing Sound Sections (Self-Release, 2003)
Supper Wedding in Little Hamlet (Corner Sound C1, 2004)
A Gift of Despair for My Friends (Corner Sound C1, 2004)
The Sound Of Silence (Reconfiguration, 2005) (compilation)
Nothing: A Mono Tape (Un-Release, 2005)
In (Little Sound 3", 2006)
Contemporary Chinese Experimental Music (UBUWeb, 2007) (compilation)
BrainWave Communication (BrainWave Communication, 2007) (compilation)
Chinese New Year (Little Sound 3", 2007) (compilation)
The Realness Vanishes Half Way through the Process of Realness Restoration (Litte Sound 3", 2007) (Split)
Palliative Sedation (Post-Concrete Archival Vinyl, 2008)
Ritual (Little Sound 3", 2008)
A Gift of Despair for My Friends (Post-Concrete Archival Vinyl, Reissue, 2009)
Field-Recordings in China (Surface Magzine, 2009) (compilation)

events:

2006.10: Awakening Battersea at China Power Station part I, Battersea Power Station, London
2008.05: Headphone Walking - China Incidental: (Un)familiar Territories, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2009.08: China Sound Map (with Wang Changcun), JNBY Arts Centre, Hangzhou

links:

http://www.hitlike.com/
http://www.icebreaking.org/