Publications

• A Bridge Across the Memory Sea — Whale Circus 10th Anniversary Concert (Beijing) (2025 Live Recording)

  This album features a curated selection of live recordings from the Beijing show, bringing together 19 classic pieces from past releases. Each has been thoughtfully rearranged, with the addition of a choir, allowing familiar melodies to unfold in a new light. If there is something truly irreplaceable, it is perhaps the sense of “companionship” that has quietly accumulated over the years. Like solitary whales moving through the deep sea, we have always been searching for others who can understand our language. This album is both a reflection on ten years of Whale Circus and a gift to those who have supported us along the way. We hope that when you hear these familiar melodies again, they can accompany you through moments of solitude, and gently remind you to hold closer to the present.

• An Elegy For The Ocean - I Feel You

  An Elegy For The Ocean - I Feel You is an immersive spatial audio album that weaves together natural field recordings and artistic composition, serving as the opening chapter of the new sound art initiative Sound Voyage. The album originates from a sailing expedition across open waters to document the migratory habitats of Bryde’s whales. During the journey, original acoustic materials from Bryde’s whales, other marine life, and the surrounding oceanic environment were carefully collected and transformed through artistic interpretation. Presented in immersive spatial audio, the work invites listeners into an open auditory environment shaped by depth, movement, and proximity. Within this fluid sonic space, each listener is encouraged to navigate freely, discovering a personal narrative through sound.

• Whalecircus Vol.7 Solareti

  Does eternity exist? If time is the measure of all things, what happens when time itself begins to dissolve? Is it possible that another reality exists, one that no longer operates according to the linear logic of past, present, and future, but instead unfolds within a continuous present?

• The Farthest Place From The Sea

  Led by Xingyu Li, the team—recordists Li Mako, Yu Han, Liu Yang; producer and photographer Erchu; videographer Yang Yuebo; and percussionist Liu Xingxing—departed from Urumqi and traveled through Yining, Huocheng, Korla, Yuli, Turpan, Shanshan, Kuqa, Kashgar, Shache, Yecheng, and Dushanzi. Along the way, they documented dozens of folk musicians. The team eventually returned to Urumqi, where they rented a recording studio and, over the course of one week, improvised together with local musicians to create the album The Farthest Place from the Sea.