{"title":"Pan Daijing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePan Daijing is an artist and composer. She was born and raised in Guiyang, China and is currently based in Berlin. With a unique blend of experimental music, noise, and performance art, Pan Daijing has established herself as a prominent figure in the contemporary music scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer compositions often explore themes of identity, power dynamics, and emotional vulnerability. Drawing inspiration from her Chinese heritage and her experiences living in different cultures, Pan Daijing creates immersive sonic landscapes that challenge traditional notions of sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKnown for her captivating live performances, Pan Daijing combines her haunting vocals with intricate electronic arrangements to create an intense sensory experience. Her work has been compared to artists such as Vanessa Amara, Puce Mary, Loke Rahbek, and Croatian Amor.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"tissues","title":"Tissues","description":"\u003cp\u003ePan Daijing’s exhibition-performance \u003ci\u003eTissues\u003c\/i\u003e premiered in the Tanks at the Tate Modern in autumn 2019. A fiveact immersion in performance, sound, movement, space, and most of all emotion in its most distilled and conflicted states, \u003ci\u003eTissues\u003c\/i\u003e engaged with the conventions of opera and tragedy to present a searing representation of the embattled human psyche in space and time. While the ambitious multi-sensory artwork made use of the range of Daijing’s artistic capabilities, music, particularly the voice, was at its formal and emotional core. The vinyl release of \u003ci\u003eTissues\u003c\/i\u003e on PAN serves as a record of that work, in the form of an hour-long audio excerpt: an invaluable archival document from Daijing’s expansive live practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTissues\u003c\/i\u003e is both a solitary work and a formal study in relation. Composed, directed, designed, written, and performed by Daijing (alongside a cast of twelve dancers and opera singers), the work—its libretto written in a mixture of old and modern Chinese—lingers inside a single human perspective. Daijing conjures states that are by turns delicate and severe, the tension between opposing modes animating the work as it unfolds. And yet, for all its interiority, \u003ci\u003eTissues\u003c\/i\u003e foregrounds an intimate relationship with its audience through details like its engulfing visual landscape and its rattling, confrontational narrative arcs. Daijing uses the opera form as a prism through which to question the boundaries of music itself: perhaps, she proposes, music is much more than simply what is heard. It is in the relationship between voice and electronics that this limit is most clearly breached. Across the four acts gathered in this documentation, a counter-tenor, a soprano, a mezzo-soprano, and the artist herself voice a mixture of stunning laments and cries over an instrumental landscape, built out from industrial texture. Meant to be heard in a single listen, rather than track by track, the work unfolds through tender hollows and agitated peaks. At its crescendo, the operatic vocals melt away and the synthesizers themselves seem to howl with grief.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaijing uncovers an essential, sometimes painful, music in all that surrounds us, inviting something like catharsis but also a greater understanding of the thing she and her cast conjure and draw close. A tissue, after all, is both a disposable object one uses to wipe away a tear, and the building block of our fleshy human forms. Daijing reaches and excavates the roiling core of what it is to be alive and full of feeling. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pan","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP | x2","offer_id":50478895497547,"sku":"1137568","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/71c857d9-1771-4c23-9664-a5311d6f7994_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727494310"},{"product_id":"atomin-paluu","title":"Atomin Paluu","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese are the final studio recordings made under the name Pansonic (Mika Vainio \u0026amp; Ilpo Vaisanen) recorded as per their usual working methods at Mika's home studio in Berlin from 2005 - 2011 and subsequently edited into this album format by Mika in 2015. Uniquely Pansonic used selected third-party field recordings from filming at the building site. The twelve tracks are simply titled Atomin Paluu Parts 1 to 12 and total just under 67mins of the classic Pansonic sound. The film is a Finnish production; as a film soundtrack these recordings were bound up in a complex series of delays in the release of the film - which documents the building of the first nuclear power plant since the Chernobyl meltdown in 1986 - a project that fell foul of much bureaucratic wrangling and control which manifested itself in the need for over 40 cuts of the the film. But it was all worthwhile and during pre-release screenings of the film it won the highly coveted 2015 Nordic Dox Award at the world renowned CPH:DOX festival in Copenhagen. It is scheduled for TV showings via ARTE(France), WDR\/ZDF(Germany), YLE (Finland) and the film will be widely distributed in art house cinemas throughout the world. The soundtrack itself brought the greatest recognition and went on to win Best Soundtrack at this year's Jussi Awards Festival (known as the Finland's Oscars). In typical Pansonic style neither member bothered to attend the awards to collect their statuettes.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blast First Petite","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50494077403467,"sku":"403497","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9bbca915-45cb-49bf-ba8c-0500c85d760f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727703294"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_2519f474_thumbnail_4096_5b333a85-e141-427d-a461-c33d00470788.jpg?v=1727494293","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/collections\/pan-daijing.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}