Yan Jun, Sound artist and poet.

Yan was born in Lanzhou in 1973, now based in Beijing. B.A. of Chinese Literature.

Yan's live performance engages space feedback, loop and voice/language to make hypnotic noise. He also creates sound art works, which related to field recording, installation, image, video, publishing and multiple forms. He had performed and participated exhibitions in Paris (Nuit Blanche), Amsterdam, Berlin (Transmediale), Cologne (MusikTriennale Köln), Moers (Moers Festival), Kuala Lumpur (Street Roar), Seoul (Bulgasari), Oslo (Sound of Mu), Brussels, Copenhagen (Metropolis Biennale) and London, toured in Taiwan and Mainland China.

He was a well-known music critic and organizer in China's underground music and sub-culture scene. Recent years he focuses on contemporary music and sound art. Yan runs the virtual creation Sub Jam since 1998. It had released essential underground music and independent films. In 2004 he co-founded KwanYin Records for experimental music and sound exploration.

He runs Waterland Kwanyin, a weekly event of experimental / improv music and sound art since 2005, and the annual outdoor festival Mini Midi. He also curates sound projects for DIAF Art Festival since 2004, as well GetItLouder07.

He had published 6 books on topic of Chinese new music and 3 poetry anthologies.


For CV and other information pls contact: subjam@gmail.com


Publication    Performance    Exhibithion    Lecture    Curate and Organize      Award     Other


Internet sources:
http://www.yanjun.org
http://www.subjam.org/
http://www.myspace.com/yanjunyanjun