Text by No Performance

No Performance is Li Song and Zhu Wenbo. This duo started in Beijing, 2015. They wrote and played compositions focus on acoustic instruments, environment sound, computer algorithm and random sequence. In 2018, Li Song moved to London.

In 2020, Zhu Wenbo suggested a recording plan: to write some composition pieces for each other and then perform solo or with local friends. They used one month on writing, exchanged on a same day, then another two months on recording.

Finally they got seven pieces, two from Li Song and five from Zhu Wenbo. Different materials were used, including guitar, clarinet, metronome, cellphone sinetones and acoustic laptop computer. All compositions are text based.

Tracklist

1.	Dry Leaves 干叶子	21:33

2.	High Tones 高音	6:42

3.	Outer Ring 外环	6:57

4.	Steps 阶梯	15:13

5.	Text 文本	5:33

6.	Metronome 2/5 节拍器 2/5	4:01

7.	Percussion Quartet at Home 自制打击乐	10:04

Credits

released April 1, 2021

Composed by Li Song (A1, B4) and Zhu Wenbo (A2, A3, B1, B2, B3).
Performed by Li Song (A2, A3, B1, B2, B3), Zhu Wenbo (A1, B4), Liu Lu (A1), Cheng Yun (A3), Liang Yongping (A3), Lodliet (B4), Ma Jin (B4) and Fu Shixin (B4).

Recorded in Beijing (A1, B4) and London (A2, A3, B1, B2, B3), late summer to early autumn, 2020.
Mastered by Hiroyuki Ura.

License

CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.