yan jun

salute bub!

i wish i was wrong… thanx lasse marhaug for the design! already on yan jun’s bandcamp page.

𝙏𝙞𝙢𝙚, 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮, 𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙘 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙢𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙨, written by Hankil Ryu (@hankil.ryu ) and Yan Jun (@yanjunbeijing ), is an accompany text of their collaborative work 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦: 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 during Changbai Spring 2025 research residency program. The article reflects on electronic music, digital technology, and perceived reality, linking shamanic ritual, experimental music, and provisional interfaces to explore how reality is filtered, translated, sampled, and reconstructed. The work and article are commissioned by NAAA and will be included in the English-language Changbai Spring 2025 program publication – 𝙙𝙚/𝙧𝙚-𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙯𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣: 𝘼𝙣 𝙄𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙉𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝘼𝙨𝙞𝙖 (New York: Northeast Asia Art Archive, 2026). - Let us now reconsider the phrase "perceive reality" from a technical standpoint. Science and technology can translate and reconstruct the analog world into a digital one by extracting certain segments of information from the world (filtering), analyzing those samples (sampling), and then rearranging them (patterning). Examining this mechanism of analyzing and translating the world through technology provides one way to understand how we perceive it. - in electronic music and computer music, the function of the sound card is not to block or transmit, but to translate. it's a two-way translation, not a one-way flow. from this perspective, the inside and outside are in relation; we don't prioritize either. In keeping with Yan Jun’s writing practice, all English words in his section appear in lowercase. The full performance video is available on NAAA’s YouTube channel, and the Chinese version of the article is now published on NAAA’s official WeChat. Link in bio. . Images: 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦: 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯, 2025. Photos: Bryon Li, Na Yingyu, Feng Tao, and Lucas Yang (@30lucas ). © NAAA. #northeastasia #northeastchina #publication #performance #experimentalmusic

pre-order now (Aloe-008) We are pleased to release the duo album by Yan Jun and Ryu Hankil: ‘all words return 翱卧瑞吞’. It was recorded in Shanghai in 2024 and completed in Beijing in 2025. The Shanghai recordings are imbued with an eerie sense of multiple spaces compressed into a single moment in time: This includes Yan Jun’s vocals echoing within a small room, fictional narratives and reverberations within Ryu Hankil’s Max/MSP patch ⑥, and a cacophony of outdoor street sounds interspersed with MAI mai’s occasional guitar practice. Later, before their concert in Beijing, they spent a few days at Mount Changbai. During this time, a shift in their collaboration became palpable, with the woody sounds emanating from Ryu Hankil’s ⑧ and Yan Jun’s shaman-like voice returning to a kind of primal ritual. While this is not a professional studio album, it is a unique, unpolished work presented in its raw form.  aloerecords.bandcamp.com/album/all-words-return

musica gialla from hollow and flat. marhaug from smalltown superjazz.

I have been going through some videos from my Fall 2024 tour through East and Southeast Asia. Here are some clips from a duo with Yan Jun in Beijing. #improvisation #saxophone #noise

an album by no artist and entitled “unknown artist”. on subjam label now. thanx laurent güdel who found it and edited it! thanx taku unami for the mastering! thanx due xian for the design!

no more. no less. 🙏

Some pictures of last week's show at @listengallery with Yan Jun and Sue Tompkins, courtesy of Matthew Arthur Williams. Thanks so much to everyone for coming, and for Listen Gallery's wonderful hosting 💞 The event was the last to take place at Listen Gallery. There's a fundraiser on their page just now to help them get the financial backing to secure a new spot. Please support them if you can! It's now one month away until Counterflows Festival kicks off! We can't wait to welcome you all soon. There's still a few tickets available for the opening night and our clubnights if you want to join us. Wishing you all a great March. See you all soon!