Sound artist Colin Chinnery has been collecting sounds from across China for the past 10 years. Speaking with a Beijing dialect, he has moved his sound museum to a new location of 6,000 square meters in Songzhuang Town, east of the capital.
This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy are joined by Colin Chinnery from the Beijing Sound History Project, a recording project that aims to preserve the distinctive clangs, songs, and shouts of traditional Beijing life. In addition to sampling some recordings from the archives, we also talk about Chinnery’s work with the Shijia Hutong Museum, which recreates life in the