December’s Itinerant Mind is the most participatory work we have done to date to the extent that Annie and Ian don’t actually play on this month’s program which follows the format of the Resounding Beijing workshop we conducted in 2016. The broadcast offers insights into the sonic landscape of Chongqing, China’s hidden megacity through the outcomes of a sound mapping workshop conducted as part of mad.lab, a unique intensive studio that utilizes mapping as a research methodology to create urban narratives through experimentation, observation, story-telling, journeys, film, and audio-visual recordings. Located in remote South West China the city is a radically transforming urban environment that is constantly being remade anew at a frenetic and challenging pace.

Field recordings by thirty-three young media artists and designers working across a range of disciplines and practices including but not limited to sound art, installation, interaction design, sculpture, photography and graphic design are presented here as one of the final installments of the Project Anywhere program we have pursued throughout 2018.

All the recordings in the mix, except the introductory and final compositions by Niko Plaskas, were recorded at, or en-route, to fourteen locations across Chongqing on December 3 2018. Soundmaps were drawn at each location and an interactive sound map has been developed by Luke Hespanhol and exhibited recently at Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.

Participants and (locations) included:
Luhan Lin, Siqi Liu (Daping), Grace Chaplin, Joan Shin (Fotuguan), WanYi Doris Lao, Angela Xinyi Zhou (Eling), Jang-un Lee, Peier Yu (Shapingba), Yuxin Huang, Manxiu Lyu, Leidan Zhu (Hongqihegou), April Xinyuan Chen, Wendy Yuandi Cao (Huanxin), Kathy Veloso, Monika Murata (Liziba), Zhipeng Xie, Xiezhi Peng, Yinni Hou, Xiaoran Xu, DeVanté Carpenter (Longtoushi), Jasmine Hall, Rabeea Soomro, Jingwen Ou, Kang Xue (Xiaoshiza), Ming Zhu, Yiqiu Zhou (Zhengjiayuanzi), Nicholas Glascott, Niko Plaskas (Wulidan), Moe Qashlan, Annalise Ifield, Erin Peixuan Mao (South Square), Mika Yuncong Liu, Yanting Zhan, Danni Fu (Yuanjaigang).

Annie Morrad and Ian McArthur live at opposite ends of the planet. They compose and play collaborative sound work and live performances through the use of digital software Mixlr and Skype. For live events McArthur broadcasts electronic sounds, field recordings and live mixing. Morrad plays live improvised alto and tenor saxophone against these. For their recorded sound work the starting points vary from being concept driven to "I've got this idea…."