The Beijing based musician deploys unplugged electronic music in the struggle against bad sound systems

Noisemakers are being used as guinea pigs to test new art spaces. It won’t last, predicts musician, artist and Wire contributor Yan Jun after a poorly attended gig in the capital of southwestern China’s Sichuan province

“Why and how can a rock band like The Observatory exist in such a silent dream state?” Yan Jun discusses censorship amid the noise and silence of Singapore

"I’m in hell now. Welcome to hell if you love it too." Yan Jun reports from the Land Of The Dragon on Makoto Kawabata, the Chinese Bureau of Culture and doomsday cults

Yan Jun gets more questions than answers when he asks himself what happened in 2014

Yan Jun blows up knock-off speakers, bids Mother Nature farewell and embraces life and death in The Machine era

Yan Jun chews over some spicy food and experimental music: What are these enlargements of bodily experience reacting to?

"The end of the world has already happened and we are all living in that apocalypse together." Yan Jun takes the temperature of two of China's biggest cities and their music.

Yan Jun on beer in Singapore, venues in Beijing and bloody Russians

Writer, musician and Sub Jam label runner Yan Jun tells a story about Chinglish music and what happens when the King Kongs and Godzillas of world music collide.