{"id":550,"date":"2009-11-08T18:24:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdnphoto.com\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2020-09-23T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T15:15:11","slug":"sound-kapital-book-launch-chinese-punk-decends-on-powerhouse-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2009\/11\/08\/sound-kapital-book-launch-chinese-punk-decends-on-powerhouse-arena\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Kapital Book Launch: Chinese Punk Decends on powerHouse Arena"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091106_sound_kapital_powerhouse_pk14_carsick_cars002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-557\" title=\"People crowd around the makeshift stage at the powerHouse Arena\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091106_sound_kapital_powerhouse_pk14_carsick_cars002.jpg\" alt=\"People crowd around the makeshift stage at the powerHouse Arena\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"paragraph\">\n<p>After three years of photographing and months of preparation, my first monograph, <a title=\"Sound Kapital Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewniederhauser.com\/sound-kapital-beijings-music-underground\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sound Kapital<\/a>, finally launched at the powerHouse Arena in New York this past Thursday. Hundreds of people showed up and the prints looked wonderful in the large space. The guests of honor, though, were the Chinese bands who flew in from Beijing to kick off their first USA tour. I could not have been more honored to get <a title=\"P.K 14 Myspace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/pk14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">P.K. 14<\/a>, <a title=\"Carsick Cars Myspace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/carsickcars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carsick Cars<\/a>, and <a title=\"Xiao He Myspace\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/pekingxiaohe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Xiao He<\/a> to play short sets at the opening. These performers provided a great deal of inspiration to commit to the Sound Kapital portrait series. They are easily making some of the best music coming out of China. You can see some <a title=\"Carsick Cars, P.K. 14, and Xiao He on Punkcast\" href=\"http:\/\/punkcast.com\/1678\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> of their performance thanks to Punkcast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091123_sound_kapital_powerhouse_pk14_carsick_cars005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091123_sound_kapital_powerhouse_pk14_carsick_cars005.jpg\" alt=\"Photos from the Sound Kapital series hung at the powerHouse Arena\" title=\"Photos from the Sound Kapital series hung at the powerHouse Arena\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-555\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091106_sound_kapital_powerhouse_pk14_carsick_cars003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091106_sound_kapital_powerhouse_pk14_carsick_cars003.jpg\" alt=\"Yang Haisong of P.K. 14 gets the crowd going at the powerHouse Arena\" title=\"Yang Haisong of P.K. 14 gets the crowd going at the powerHouse Arena\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-553\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091106_sound_kapital_powerhouse_pk14_carsick_cars001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091106_sound_kapital_powerhouse_pk14_carsick_cars001.jpg\" alt=\"Shou Wang of Carsick Cars gets interviewed by MTV before his set\" title=\"Shou Wang of Carsick Cars gets interviewed by MTV before his set\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-552\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091123_sound_kapital_powerhouse_pk14_carsick_cars004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20091123_sound_kapital_powerhouse_pk14_carsick_cars004.jpg\" alt=\"Photos from the Sound Kapital series hung at the powerHouse Arena\" title=\"Photos from the Sound Kapital series hung at the powerHouse Arena\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-554\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three years of photographing and months of preparation, my first monograph, Sound Kapital, finally launched at the powerHouse Arena in New York this past Thursday. Hundreds of people showed up and the prints looked wonderful in the large space. The guests of honor, though, were the Chinese bands who flew in from Beijing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[50,66,100,151,280,310,363,444],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions_category","category-music_category","tag-book","tag-carsick-cars","tag-concert","tag-exhibition","tag-music","tag-pk14","tag-sound-kapital","tag-xiao-he"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}