Submitted by AliaK on Sun, 12/09/2010 - 01:50
in China, dakou (to make a hole) + surplus from the West led to experimental music & art exposure @ http://bit.ly/8ZWnb1 ... "One could find collected works of Andy Warhol or Stan Brakhage or Leni Riefenstahl next to Disney or James Bond" ... "probably an average Chinese person saw more experimental, cutting edge cinema then most well educated people in the West."
notes from:
The Sound of the Underground
An Overview of Experimental and Non-Academic Music in China
by Zbigniew Karkowski & Yan Jun
http://bit.ly/8ZWnb1
Dickson Dee -> label Sound Factory -> NoiseAsia
Wang Fan -> created arguably China’s first real experimental music work: a mysterious 40-ininute lo-fi piece
Sound artist, curator and critic Yan Jun -> Subjam label in Beijing
Taiwanese composer and contemporary music theoretician Dajuin Yao -> Post-Concrete label
