Zoomin’ Night 燥眠夜

A new cassette tape release of my field recordings project Tchefuncte Soundmap is now out on Beijing experimental label @zoominnight ’ . This 11-track, abridge version is based off of the 27-track collection of field recordings taken around the Tchefuncte River in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. An exhibition of the recordings is going on until May 8th at the Sound Art Museum in Beijing. The release also comes with a download code and sticker. China link: /s/IVzxkQEmqNNVBYsRYmvVdg Bandcamp: /album/tchefuncte-soundmap #fieldrecordings #tchefuncteriver #louisiana #fieldrecording

The latest Zoomin’ Night tape Tchefuncte Soundma is from Brad M. Seippel (thruoutin) @thruoutin_ , a musician from New Orleans but moved to Beijing more than 15 years ago. Inspired by Annea Lockwood’s 2008 audio work A Sound Map of the Danube, Tchefuncte Soundmap presents an immersive sonic documentation of the Tchefuncte River and its tributaries through a series of field recordings. Flowing through Louisiana’s Tangipahoa, Washington, and St. Tammany parishes, the river is an ecological haven, home to a wide range of wildlife, including alligators, egrets, sac-a-lait, and beavers. Stretching approximately 70 miles, it also carries a rich human history—from the Tchefuncte culture dating back to around 800 BC, through periods of French, Spanish, and British colonization, and ultimately becoming part of the United States in 1820. These recordings serve as both a snapshot of the river as it exists today and a trace of the time that has shaped it. The work guides the listener downstream from the river’s source, like a slowly moving boat, tracing a sonic journey from north to south along the Tchefuncte River to its delta, where it empties into Lake Pontchartrain. The original edition consists of 27 tracks, of which 11 have been selected for this abridged cassette version. The majority of recordings were made in November 2024, with additional material recorded in 2013 and 2016. Various handheld recording devices were used depending on location, in combination with omnidirectional microphones, contact microphones, and hydrophones. #fieldrecording #tchefuncteriver

An abridged collection of field recordings taken around St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana’s Tchefuncte River will be released through @zoominnight on cassette tape. Limited copies available through their Bandcamp and Weidian. #fieldrecordings #fieldrecording #tchefuncteriver #louisiana

Underpass Concert #19. Manfred Werder & Zhu Wenbo duo; Vermis; 41. Date: April 1 , 2026

After releasing Sean Colum’s album saeculorum on @zoominnight , I did an interview with this musician, a quiet ghost living in Tokyo but isolated with all music scene. Chinese version was also published on zoominnight.com Recently Sean also released a fantastic live recording with Taku Sugimoto, @e23227 Fumi Endo, @kanonaonami Kanon Aonami at Ftarri, don’t miss that, too.

It is a pleasure to release some new music from Japan, again! Sean Colum is an English musician residing in Tokyo. Sometimes you could see his name on Ftarri, Permian or Tama river concerts. A quiet guitarist. 
“saeculorum” is his solo album. All sound materials were recorded in a same room, but collected over a period of several years, comprising instrumental performance, electro-acoustic sound production, fixed media and environmental miscellany in a compositional form which exhibits high mesostructural discontinuity. Art work by @dawhong

“el instante centellea” is Zoomin’ Night latest cassette album by Jack Herscowitz, an electronic musician but on this album he wrote two compositions for solo instrument, violin and piano. Side A “and then at last, we shall rest” was performed by his friend Simone Maura, and Side B “el instante centellea” was performed by himself. Some quote from Jack’s linenote: “……… They both set into a motion a clear and unidirectional process towards a single resting point. Yet, despite their adherence to fixed formal and temporal structures, the experience of listening to and performing both pieces continues to surprise me. ……… Their duration is thus imbued with potential, as their material directness, oxymoronically, begets their depth; each piece transcends its formal process.” Cover art work by Dahong Hongxuan Wang @dawhong

@daryl.worthington Thank you Daryl for reviewing this long album on @thequietus

日常 Nichijo is the duo project of Zhao Ziyi and Yang Kuku. Both of them are active noise musicians in Beijing, but in this project they only do normal things in everyday. Killing mosquitos, packing/unpacking delivery box, or hiding a recorder, then searching it. Some real non-music things. On November 24, 2024, they recorded 17 pieces in a neighborhood in Beijing’s Sanyuanli for their super length album. 3 pieces were abandoned (the cheapest Japanese cuisine in the world / standing, lying, sitting, doing nothing / drawing sketches), but were used on album in some other way as title and cover. Total length is nearly 100 mins. Some tracks were recorded by a cheap portable cassette tape player. @zhaoziyiiiii @yangkuku6

Zhu Songjie is a guitarist living in Shanghai, with some works released on @notice_recordings and @aloe_records . "Prepared Blues" is his forth album with BLUES on title, and he used ebow and prepared guitar. Dark, buzzing, deep south.

New tape: Zhu Wenbo and Noah Ophoven-Baldwin: Wooden Beam and Some Materials (ZMY 081) A remote collaborative project. Three of the pieces were recorded at the same time on three consecutive “Mondays/ Tuesdays” wherever we were— @zzhuwenbo in Beijing recorded Tuesday mornings and @doublec1992 in Minneapolis recorded Monday evenings. Five of the pieces are combined solos that were composed for each other. Noah’s piece Wooden Beams is a notated solo piece for Zhu that can be played on any instrument. Zhu wrote five solo text scores for Noah. The final piece is a solo cornet piece that is a transcription of Zhu playing a mystery instrument. All things were finished in 2023, but some slight reworks were added and remove in 2024. Using field recordings, cornet, electric chord organ, clarinet, guitar, toy piano, sine tone and glockenspiel. /album/wooden-beam-and-some-materials

Friends in Italy, Zhao Cong and Sun Yizhou will perform here on today, tomorrow and Saturday. June 18 Nub, Pistoia @nubprojectspace June 19 7022, Milano @settantaventidue June 21 Yanvii Factory, Cesena @yanvii_factory