Monorail
3 minutes, 09 seconds
"Monorail"
Etude Aux Chemins de Fer
4 minutes, 06 seconds
"Etude Aux Chemins de Fer"
North Bank Removals
4 minutes, 05 seconds
"North Bank Removals"
NORTH BANK REMOVALS
China, Chongqing, 2005
Workers loading rubble from demolished buildings onto a ship on the north bank of Jialing river, recorded from a distance and accompanied by the horns of passing ships. The area will be flooded by the raised water levels caused by the Three Gorges Dam. Recorded for the D-Fuse project Undercurrent.
China, Chongqing, 2005
Workers loading rubble from demolished buildings onto a ship on the north bank of Jialing river, recorded from a distance and accompanied by the horns of passing ships. The area will be flooded by the raised water levels caused by the Three Gorges Dam. Recorded for the D-Fuse project Undercurrent.
Railyard Workshop
2 minutes, 17 seconds
"Railyard Workshop"
Tourist Boat Tout
3 minutes, 19 seconds
"Tourist Boat Tout"
McAdvertising
4 minutes, 34 seconds
"McAdvertising"
MCADVERTISING
China, Chongqing, 2005
A McDonald’s restaurant in Jiefangbei is advertising its delicacies with speakers mounted on the outside of the building. But even the CD player can’t quite get itself to try and entice passersby to savour the riches of American fast food on offer inside. Instead it spurts and sputters, much like one’s digestive tracts after a visit to the selfsame restaurant. All this is accompanied by the din of construction that hangs across hills of the city in concurrence with the clouds of thick smog. Recorded for the D-Fuse project Undercurrent.
China, Chongqing, 2005
A McDonald’s restaurant in Jiefangbei is advertising its delicacies with speakers mounted on the outside of the building. But even the CD player can’t quite get itself to try and entice passersby to savour the riches of American fast food on offer inside. Instead it spurts and sputters, much like one’s digestive tracts after a visit to the selfsame restaurant. All this is accompanied by the din of construction that hangs across hills of the city in concurrence with the clouds of thick smog. Recorded for the D-Fuse project Undercurrent.
Chongqing Construction Workers’ Percussion Ensemble
3 minutes, 29 seconds
"Chongqing Construction Workers’ Percussion Ensemble"
CHONGQING CONSTRUCTION WORKERS’ PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE
China, Chongqing, 2005
A group of construction workers attacking paving stones with pickaxes and chisels in Jiefangbei. The fact that their pickaxes are all tuned to different notes makes the process sound more like a musical performance than a building site. Recorded for the D-Fuse project Undercurrent.
China, Chongqing, 2005
A group of construction workers attacking paving stones with pickaxes and chisels in Jiefangbei. The fact that their pickaxes are all tuned to different notes makes the process sound more like a musical performance than a building site. Recorded for the D-Fuse project Undercurrent.
Chongqing TV
3 minutes, 33 seconds
"Chongqing TV"
CHONGQING TV
China, Chongqing, 2005
Chongqing TV are producing an ident for their station. On the side of a motorway beside the Jialing river, overlooking the breathtaking panorama of Jiefangbei and Chaotianmen on the other riverbank, a group of fresh-faced teenagers are lip-syncing to the angelic voices of Chongqing TV’s theme tune. A few hundred metres to the other side, there is a wasteland of demolished buildings with people dotted around picking bricks from the rubble for reuse. This area is about to be flooded by the raised water levels caused by the Three Gorges Dam. Recorded for the D-Fuse project Undercurrent.
China, Chongqing, 2005
Chongqing TV are producing an ident for their station. On the side of a motorway beside the Jialing river, overlooking the breathtaking panorama of Jiefangbei and Chaotianmen on the other riverbank, a group of fresh-faced teenagers are lip-syncing to the angelic voices of Chongqing TV’s theme tune. A few hundred metres to the other side, there is a wasteland of demolished buildings with people dotted around picking bricks from the rubble for reuse. This area is about to be flooded by the raised water levels caused by the Three Gorges Dam. Recorded for the D-Fuse project Undercurrent.