Soldier

After welcoming Beijing’s Yan Jun last year to Counterflows, we continue with our focus on China’s rich and sprawling underground music scene. This time we welcome an exciting new duo from Chengdu – Soldier.

Soldier are an experimental duo, representing one aspect of the ongoing collaboration between Xiang and Yu Mingjing. Xiang and Yu first met at a sound workshop in Chengdu in 2018, arriving from their respective paths. A year later, they began collaborating within a site-specific context through the Gear Factory project, employing field recording, image, body and video as their materials. In recent years, they have frequently engaged in improvisation and experiment as a duo. Yu utilizes objects, high-speed rotating tools and the possibilities of images, while Xiang uses body, voice and violin. Together, they explore the sonic field where objects and the body converge.

Solider don’t have any live recordings, but you can hear a recording of Yu Ming Jing performing a piece by Xiang here. Expect something different for their set together though!

Working with Soldier is part of our 10,000 Elephants project and is supported by The British Council’s Connections Through Culture programme. The project is a collaboration between the You And Me festival and Yan Jun in Beijing, and Counterflows in Glasgow.