YAN Jun

颜峻

Beijing

 

Sound artist, improviser. A well-known music critic, poet and driving force of China's indie music and sub-culture scene for years, Yan was born in Lanzhou in 1973, now lives and works in Beijing. He holds B.A. degree in Chinese Language & Literature. Yan runs the new music labels Sub Jam and Kwanyin Records, as well as Waterland Kwanyin and One Plus, two weekly events of experimental / improv music and sound art. He has also initiated Tie Guan Yin, a free-form electroacoustic improv project.

Yan performs with effect pedals, voice, laptop, sound forks, contact microphone and everything else. His style is about meditation / ritualism, new-minimalism, low-frequencies / sinewave, drone, throat-singing, field recording, free improv and sometimes noise, which can be collectively described with his own coinage "Artificial Soundscape".

 

Website: http://www.yanjun.org

Blog: http://www.rockstyle.com.cn/subjam/index.html

PERFORMANCES

2006, Street Roar 2006, Kuala Lumpur
2005, 2pi festival, Hangzhou
2005, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen
2005, “Sound and City”, Cubic Art Center, Beijing, as member of improv 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 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” , 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, Shanghai, 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)
2002, "Sparta" novel-reading drama, All Sages Book Store, Beijing, with Wang Fan and other artists and writers

EXHIBITION

2006.10: Awakening Battersea at China Power Station part I, Battersea Power Station, London.

DISCOGRAPHY

Collaborations

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 Records)
2004, The Other Two Comrades + Yan Jun – Live in Guangzhou and Hangzhou (3CD-R, Sub Jam)
2003, Impossible (with fm3 and Wu Quan, Sub Jam)

Compilations

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)

DVD

2005, FM3 + Dou Wei + Yan Jun + Anna & Bernhard J. Blume – Kwan Yin View (DVD, Loud & Clear series, Bifrons, the Netherlands)