The Recurrence of Infections [复发感染]

by bod [包家巷]

supported by

ᴰᴶ ᴹᴱᴳᴬᶠᴬᵁᴺᴬ 🕊 i have had countless emotional epiphanies listening to and relistening to this. i thank bod [包家巷] for their dedication to their craft, as well as their dedication to such totalising vulnerability & honesty Favorite track: The Recurrence of Infections [复发感染].

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

€8 EUR or more

1.	The Recurrence of Infections [复发感染] 37:43	buy track
2.	Infection Supplement [感染补充] (Bonus track) 09:19
3.	The Recurrence of Infections (Flora Yin-Wong Remix 03:48	buy track
4.	The Recurrence of Infections (M.D. James Remix) 03:40	buy track

about

Nicholas Zhu’s previous efforts as bod [包家巷] saw them folding context both online and off into palpable concepts like MoVA (Museum of Virtual Art) as well as sound pieces Advent of the Silicon Rain [硅雨来临] and Limpid Fear [清澈恐惧], released through Quantum Natives and KNIVES, respectively. Zhu’s music is primarily constructed through piano and voice, “performed” through active manipulation of a MIDI instruments and vocal recordings overlaid and situated in field recordings and soundtrack rips. The resulting world created reads as documentations or meta-considerations of the present moment, measurements of the experience of life through technologically informed sound design.

The latest bod [包家巷] work, entitled The Recurrence Of Infections [复发感染], is an elliptically sweet yet unsettling audio piece that conceptualizes a state of mind in “the quiet hours of laborious coping that fall into the areas between work and sleep.” It comes with additional sound and video supplements that "are components of the larger, continuous work that is living." The title refers to a series of health issues that they had while living in Los Angeles.

Zhu has stated in previous interviews that their practice in music is distinct from their art, citing “socioeconomic precarity” as a driving force behind their work. “I put my studio practice on hold specifically to work on music (for efficacy, music allows me to engage with people in a way that art can’t) knowing that meaning doesn’t translate, even when literally transcribed.”

The spacious desolation and emotional surges that are felt in the sound piece aren’t intended to impart meaning as much as expressing an affect, specifically attuned to the darker moments in one’s life when they are self-loathing, lost in unease and intense fear. The work varies from calm and polymorphous soundscapes to maximal onslaughts of noise and harmonies, each section stitched to the next as nonlinear, anecdotal chapters in a story of personal experience.

credits

released December 7, 2018

Photography by Nicholas Zhu
Artwork by Niels Wehrspann
Mastering by Ten Eight Seven

license

about

bod [包家巷] Antarctica

bod [包家巷] is an audiovisual artist from Tucson that is currently based in Berlin.

contact / help

Contact bod [包家巷]

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like bod [包家巷], you may also like:

hybtwibt?
by Space Afrika

supported by 17 fans who also own “The Recurrence of Infections [复发感染]”

i haven't been through what you've been through, but i want to understand everett
go to album
Club Shanzai Bootleg Compilation
by Genome 6.66Mbp

supported by 17 fans who also own “The Recurrence of Infections [复发感染]”

It makes me new shameofwe
go to album
V/A - mono no aware
by PAN

supported by 15 fans who also own “The Recurrence of Infections [复发感染]”

////////good investment 10/10 artiscent
go to album
Kontratape 06
by Laura Trance, All True

With the A-Side handled by Laura Trance and the B-Side by All True, “Kontratape 06” offers two different spins on glitchy electronic music. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 17, 2021
go to album
Sleep Scale
by Richard Greenan

Organ, piano, strings and synths slowly brew ethereal, ambient, electronic LP. Mad bonus cuts & tasty giant poster. Bandcamp New & Notable May 26, 2015
go to album
Lukuss
by ARIGTO

A beautifully haunting record from ARIGTO with atmospheric drones that shapeshift constantly. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 15, 2024
go to album
BLK SPLLS
by NKISI

supported by 15 fans who also own “The Recurrence of Infections [复发感染]”

This music is insistent and relentless. The fact that it has a ritualistic feel, with almost all sounds pushed to the edge of explosion isn't an accident. Well worth repeated listening. veenstar
go to album