Yan Jun: Experimental Music in China

Left: Yan Jun in France, from his myspace page

You barely have to scratch the surface of independent music in China to find what I consider extremely avant-garde and frankly bizzare* music, and maybe this is why.

"To speak of 'experimentation' in China means to discuss it literally: Every single person in the entire country experiments daily and tries out new things. This is particularly true of the last decade. In pre-Olympic Beijing any street, building, restaurant, store, company or regulation could be transformed or even disappear at any given moment." - Yan Jun, RE-INVENT



(*As Sarah said when I put on the Noise Is Free compilation: "my arteries!")