Over a foul line,Simple questions
ChoP vol.1
wpcd001
Release:25 March 2007
Tracks:
1.Incurable Tradition
2.Transparent Thoughts
3.Prowl at Midnight
4.Why not?
All tracks composed by Zen Lu & Grzegorz Bojanek
Mastered by Dickson Dee@Dicksonia Studio
Designed by Hei Lee@Altscape Creative
P+C 2007 We Play
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About ChoP Project:
The ChoP Project is a unique transnational initiative that includes sound and visual artists from China and Poland. It was created in 2006 out of a passion for contemporary music by two independent artists, Zen Lu [CN] and Grzegorz Bojanek [PL], and it has provided an opportunity for many Polish and Chinese artists to interact and collaborate with each other across two different continents. In the beginning, both Chinese and Polish artists started collaborating with each other thanks to the possibilities given by the Internet. The first real meeting took place in 2007, when Zen Lu visited Poland for the first time. He met personally with Grzegorz Bojanek and they performed for the first time together. Their first live act in the city of Częstochowa [PL], as well as the personal contacts meant that the future of the project was seen in brighter colours. In 2009, artists from Poland together with their Chinese partners, took part in a two week Chinese tour visiting such cities as Shenzhen, Foshan, Changsha, Wuhan, Guangzhou and Hong Kong. Thank again Zen Lu came to Poland in 2010, to perform in Warsaw, Częstochowa and Kraków. Also in 2010, the artists of the ChoP Project were invited by the British independent film director Isaac Julien to compose part of the soundtrack for his 9-screen video installation “Ten Thousand Waves,” starring Maggie Cheung. Later, Zen Lu and Grzegorz Bojanek were invited by Isaac Julien to join him during the 8th Shanghai Biennale and perform live improvised music for his one-screen version of the installation called “Better Life” that had a vast support from the British Council. The following year, the Chinese artists visited Europe and performed in Poland, Czech Republic, and Germany. Later in 2011, several new artists from Poland went to China and visited Shanghai, Nanjing, Beijing and Wuhan during a two week tour. They performed a number of concerts, including a live-act at the Shanghai Electronic Music Week.

So many amazing contacts between artists and the constant support of the Art and Technology Foundation was a good sign that the ChoP Project should reach the next level in the field of transnational cooperation. Thanks to the support of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland and Adam Mickiewicz Institute the first ChoP Festival was organised in Shenzhen and Hong Kong, in 2012. The success of the first edition of the Festival, which became one of the biggest Shenzhen autumn festivals, encouraged the founders to continue the efforts
to popularise the contemporary modern electronic music among citizens of Shenzhen. With the support of the same institutions the second edition of the ChoP Festival was organised in Shenzhen, in 2013.

In 2014 ChoP Founders visited Shanghai and Hangzhou to perform together and make lectures about the history of Polish electronic music. They visited such institutions as Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai and many smaller galleries of modern art. The same year, members of the ChoP Project took part in the Modern Art Festival in Nanchang and later they also performed music for the old silent movies in Shenzhen.

With 2016 being the 10th anniversary of the Chop Project, a return visit to Shenzhen and Hong Kong in November mark this significant milestone, we orgnaized live concert(5 concerts), ChoP exhibition of 10th anniversary, New media art exhibition, workshop/ lecture in 6 venues in Hong Kong and Shenzhen.

Since 2006, many artists have been invited to join the ChoP project. They recorded albums and performed live-acts both in China and Poland. The artists involved in the project include: Grzegorz Bojanek, Zen Lu, Dickson Dee, RND, Minoo, Sin:Ned, Nejmano, KLC_NIR, Krzysztof Orluk, Bai Tian, Kim_Nasung, Nmls, Guiddo, Michał Wolski, Błażej Malinowski, Er Dao, VU, Gold Plated Face, Ye Hui, Lights Dim, Vasen Piparjuuri, Paweł Janicki, Przemysław Moskal, B6, Nini, jfi, Krzysztof Cybulski, Kenbo, Shen Piji, Tie Qi, Mulian, Michał Szturomski, Lud Hauza, zo-on slows and Michał Jacaszek.

www.chop-project.com