At The Door

"At the door: A Shanghai Lilong Soundwalk" offers a 360-degree acoustic exploration that captures the
fluid dynamics of Shanghai's lilong neighborhoods. Over the course of 30-minute, the piece seamlessly
intertwines the past with the present, the near and the far by weaving together lilong soundscape in
various locations in Shanghai, and four sets of interviewees’ narrative of diversed living experience
in lilong compound from 1960s to 2021. This sonic journey serves as a captivating and poetic
documentation of Shanghai's lilong, inviting its audience to experience the memories woven into these
historic neighborhoods through the medium of sound. The piece is originally mapped onto an abandoned
lilong space near Laoximen Station in Shanghai.

TIMELINE

Ideation: September 2020 - December 2020
Field Research: February 2021 - April 2021
Sound Production: April 2021 - May 2021
Web Design and Coding: May 2021

PROJECT WEBSITE(Mobile Access)

https://yb924.github.io/AtTheDoor/

TOOLS

Field Recording: shotgun microphone，binaural microphone
Sound Production: Reaper
Visual: Adobe Creative Suite
Website Development: Atom, Github


-> Visual Elements




-> Field Research Documentation

EXHIBITION

-> A 30 minute edited soundtrack version is commissioned by Maison Margiela as part of the project “The Memory of ... Streets”, 2024