Monday Music Studio
Documenting The Blue Left Spinning: A Kinetic Sound Sculpture by Salome Yichi Zhang
Aug 2026 | New York
Ahead of its New York presentation at FLOHAUS Gallery, Monday Music documented The Blue Left Spinning, a kinetic sound sculpture by artist and composer Salome Yichi Zhang.
Porcelain, Memory, and Migration
Bringing together porcelain, mechanical movement, sensors, code, and generative music, The Blue Left Spinning transforms a deeply personal family history into an evolving audiovisual experience.
At the center of the installation are porcelain pieces connected to Zhang’s family tradition of porcelain making in Hunan, China—a lineage spanning approximately two hundred years. By placing this inherited craft within a contemporary system of sound and technology, Zhang explores the connections between memory, migration, and creative transformation.
Turning Motion into Sound
As the sculpture rotates, sensors continuously track its movement and changing spatial relationships between its porcelain elements. This live data is translated into musical information, allowing the physical motion of the sculpture itself to shape the sound.
Each cycle of movement becomes a reflection on accumulation, inheritance, and transformation. The moments of pause and silence create space between generations—holding what has been passed down before it continues in a new form.
Documenting a Work in Motion
Because The Blue Left Spinning unfolds through movement, sound, repetition, and silence, its experience cannot be fully captured in a single still image.
Monday Music’s documentary follows the relationships between porcelain and mechanism, inherited craftsmanship and contemporary technology, and physical movement and generated sound. The project reflects our continuing work at the intersection of music, moving image, performance, and contemporary art.
The Blue Left Spinning
Salome Yichi Zhang
FLOHAUS Gallery, New York
Curated by Neil Leonard
Live Visual by Anna Ren
Poster by Elle Fanf (qr.3lf)
Documentary by Monday Music
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