Yan Jun
Sound maker, known as music critic, poet and organizer. born in Lanzhou in 1973. Graduated from Department of Chinese Language & Literature in Northwest Normal University in 1995. Now lives and works in Beijing. Founder of Sub Jam and KwanYin labels. Founder of Tie Guan Yin (improvised music project) and Tang (duo). Runing the Waterland Kwanyin weekly free event for experimental/improvised music.
Use pc on sound material, but on stage with simple equipments (cd player, I-pod, signal generator, mixer) with throat singing and simple physical sound source (singing bowl, tuning fork, etc.).
description: improvised, sound, atmosphere, field recording mix, ritual, hypnosis, minimalism, low frequency…
Publication:
music culture and collection of reviews:
Noises In-Burning (2004 mainland China, 2005 Taiwan)
Bohemia China (collaboration, 2003 Hongkong, 2004 mainland China)
Under-underground (2002)
Noises Inside (2001)
New Sound From Beijing (1999)
Rock With Iron & Blood (1999)
Pop culture:
I Am Here Where I Don' t Exist (2005)
poetry:
Editor In Chief & Producer for literary magazine "Writing" (2001-2003)
Infrasonic Sound (2001)
49 Poems (1996)
music & sound-poem:
2005, V.A. – Emotions: From Somewhere To Nowhere (Doufu Records)
2005, WORM radio 61 – Slow – directions in contemporary music fron China (compilation by Sascha Roth & Yan Jun, WORM Radio, the Netherlands)
2005, FM3 + Dou Wei + Yan Jun + Anna & Bernhard J. Blume – Kwan Yin View (DVD, Loud & Clear series, Bifrons, the Netherlands)
2005, Huan Qing + Noise Association Of Lanzhou + Yan Jun - Journey of A Blind Monk, Live in Lanzhou 2002 (Ao Tu Production)
2005, The Other Two Comrades + Yan Jun + Top Floor Circus – Improvisation in Shanghai (KwanYin
2004, The Other Two Comrades + Yan Jun – Live in Guangzhou and Hangzhou (with Huan Qing and Chen Zhipeng, Sub Jam)
2003, Impossible (live, with fm3, Sub Jam)
Performance (selected):
2006, Street Roar 2006, Kuala Lumpur
2005, 2pi festival, Hangzhou
2005, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen
2005, "Sound and City", Cubic Art Centre, Beijing, as member of impro project Tie Guan Yin, with Peter Cusack
2005, "Chinese Festival", Amsterdam (sound performance at Paradiso; poem recitation at De Rode Hoed)
2005, "Gegentala Grassland Festival" as member of impro project Tie Guan Yin (Iron Buddha)
2005, "Artifical Soundscape", Chengdu
2005, "Poetry Today", Chengdu
2005, "artifical soundscape", Xiamen, with Lawrence English
2005, "Da Shan Zi International Art Festival 2005", Beijing
2005, "Freedom in Sound and Visual" workshop, Kunming and Dali
2004, 2pi festival, Hangzhou
2004, "1000 Revolutions Per Second", Brussels, with Wu Quan (visual)
2004, "Nuit Blanche (Sleepless Night)", Paris, with fm3 and Wu Quan (visual)
2004, "Is It Art?" Exhibition Openning perform, Xi An, with The Other Two Comrades (Huan Qin and Chen Zhipeng)
2004, "Chendu Blog China Tour", 10 cities, with The Other Two Comrades (Huan Qin and Chen Zhipeng)
2004, Houhai Nameless Underground Bar, beijing, a series with fm3 and Dou Wei
2004, Com Plus Cafe & Gallery, Fukuoka (Japan)
2004, DDM Warehouse Art Center, Shang Hai, with Christiaan and Wu Quan (visual)
2003-2004, "Ten Nights Discussion", a series with fm3, Wu Quan (visual) and Wang Fan
2003, "Boiling Dusk", Vibes, beijing, with fm3 and Wu Quan (visual)
2003, "Impossible", All Sages Book Store, beijing, with fm3 and Wu Quan (visual artist)
2002, "Sparta" novel-reading drama, All Sages Book Store, beijing, with Wang Fan and other artists and writers
Lecture (selected):
2005, "Impossible Listening", Central Academy of fine Art
2005, "4 Most Pacific People and Chinese New Music", Chinese Institute of Leiden University
2004, "Pop Music and Sub Culture in 80s China", Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
2002, "Chinese Underground Music and Its Culture", Renmin University of China, Yantai Normal University
Curate and Organize (selected):
2005-2006, Soundscape Design and Sound Art Planning for Olympic Forest Park, Beijing
2005, "Re-Invent: Mainland China’s visual/video" for "Weather In My Brain Sound-Visual Art Festival", Taipei
2005, MIMI MIDI (2nd stage of 6TH MIDI festival), Beijing
2005, "Waterland KwanYin", a weekly performances and workshops series for sound art and improv/experimental music in Beijing
2005, "Most E Electronic Sound and Music Festival", Xiamen
2005, "Beijing New Sound" for "Da Shan Zi International Art Festival 2005"
2004, "798 Soundscape" for "Da Shan Zi International Art Festival 2004"
2002, fm3, Zuo Xiao Zu Zhou and The Tongue concert in Beijing and Lanzhou
2001, Bo-n'z Beijing concerts
Co-Curate and Co-Organize (selected):
2005, "Sound and City", sound art and feild recording project involved to Brian Eno, David Toop, Peter Cusack and Clive Bell, organized by British Council China, Aug. 2005 - Feb. 2006, technical director and co-executiver
2003, "Sounding Beijing International Electronic Music Festival", co-producer
2002, 3rd MIDI Festival, Beijing, co-curator
2002, Haino Keiji + Yoshida Tatsuya Beijing concert
2000, Ruins China Tour
2000, Alex Paterson + Thomas Felhmann China Tour
1999, Otomo Yoshihide Beijing concerts
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