Yue Ji 樂記

Museo d’Arte Orientale, 2025

Yuè Jì (樂記) is a multidisciplinary project originates from a personal encounter with loss and unfolds into a broader meditation on ritual, mourning and the harmonizing power of music and sound. 
Inspired by Chinese funerary artifacts from the Han and Tang dynasties held in museum collections, the project comprises a limited-edition vinyl record of 300 copies, accompanied by a publication and a participatory performance, Tape Music, by Taiwanese artist Lin Chi-Wei. 


Presented for the first time in Italy on November 1, 2025, at MAO, the performance explores the transformative potential of collective sound-making through active audience participation. Participants are invited to read aloud sound scores inscribed on a long tape-score, contributing to the creation of a truly polyphonic “machine of sound.”


The album features three tracks: “Everything You Want Less Time” by James Hoff, from his recent autobiographical album “Shadows Lifted from Invisible Hands” (2024); “Previously Owned”, an unreleased work by dj sniff; and a recording of the “Tape Music” performance held in Paris in 2007.
The publication serves as an editorial transposition of the project, taking departure from the ceremonial rites and rituals within Taiwanese culture.

It includes an introduction by Freya Chou, three newly commissioned texts by the artists, and an in-depth entry on the performance “Tape Music”.