WHEN I ARRIVED in Hong Kong in 2011 I promptly settled into a flat at the meeting of Rutter Street and Pound Lane in Sheung Wan. Para Site was just down the hill, about 45 seconds by foot. It had been there already for 17 years. Coincidentally, we are both leaving at the same time:…

Ruan Qianrui transports the visual and sonic landscapes of Beijing’s experimental music scene to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. This January, I heard that Ruan Qianrui was coming to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for a collaborative exhibition with Experimenter En Couleur, a member of the London-based Audio Architecture collective. In…

After a decade producing experimental music through his label Subjam, sound artist Yan Jun spent 2010 organizing a monthly performance series at UCCA in 798. When I met with him a few days before the final event in the series, he spoke with a mix of disappointment and mischievous anticipation. Over the course of the…