Yan Jun born in Lanzhou in 1973, graduated from Northwest Normal University with a degree in Chinese and now lives and works in Beijing.
Yan Jun is a multi-faceted musician who has been active in music criticism, music and art event planning, improvised music performance, and even poetry writing for many years. As a music critic, Yan Jun has written around one million words of music criticism and was one of the main promoters of underground rock in China in the 1990s; as an independent music and art event planner, Yan Jun has devoted himself to the creation and promotion of experimental music and sound art in recent years, founding the Throwing Mustard Music Studio and being the planner of the earliest music festival Mini Minidiscover in China; as a sound artist and improvising music performer, Yan Jun has created As a sound artist and improviser, Yan Jun has founded several bands such as Tie Guan Yin and the perfidious Pisces Man.
This was my favourite piece in his lecture. Here is how I felt about it after seeing it. When I first saw the video I thought it was very new, both visually and aurally. The combination of the closed lift and the highly saturated colours gave me a feeling of danger and oppression. There is a sense of distortion and the whole space feels abstract. I love the sound effect, in fact I love any artwork with vocals. The immersion and self-importance of imagining your own voice as a note played on an instrument is great.