YAN JUN
Working in the realm of sound and language
Born in Lanzhou (1973) but now based in Beijing Yan Jun works with feedback noise, drone sound, voice, field recording, site-specific sound installation, impro music and environmental sound as well as writing, publishing and curating. He regards these however as one and the same thing.
Yan founded Sub Jam and its sub-label KwanYin Records, runs the weekly Waterland Kwanyin event and annual Mini Midi festival since 2005.
He has published 5 essay collections about Chinese new music and 3 poetry collections.
WU NA
Wu Na is an award-winning guqin player who began her training at the age of nine. In 1997, she entered the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing where she majored in guqin, and in 2004, she became the first musician in China to receive a Masters degree in guqin performance.
Wu Na’s dual education in both Chinese and Western music has inspired her to seek a new voice for the guqin in contemporary music, and she has performed and recorded with jazz, rock, experimental avant-gardeand music, classical musicians.
Wu has made several brief performance tours in Asia and Europe and in 2008, received a scholarship from the Asian Cultural Council to live in New York for five months in order to research contemporary art and music in America.
ZHANG JIAN AKA FM3 ZHANG
Born in Sichuan, China, Zhang Jian is a freelance musician and one of the first generation of China's live laptop performers.
He has participated in studio recordings of more than 30 popular music albums since 1995 and composed music for dozens of film, theatre and TV programmes.
He is however perhaps best known for founded FM3 in 1999, and their representative work, the Buddha Machine.
XIAO HE
Third son of Tian Qiaoyun and He Pingsuo.
Born in 1975 in Handan,Hebei Province.
Band member of Glorious Pharmacy.
In addition to singing and playing guitar for Glorious Pharmacy, a Dada-esque performance art-rock troupe, Xiao He also performs solo. He continues to do experimental/improv solo performances, collaborating with friends, including musicians from the Bejing Peking Opera Troupe.
