This is an archive of unofficial audio recordings I captured at events on the Chinese Mainland from 2010 onwards, and in Hong Kong from 2018. The list ends in 2020 when I just learned to listen.
This information is presented as a research resource. It is not a record of every event over this period – not even every experimental music event. This list represents my interests and my research, and are therefore mostly of performances in “underground” spaces and of “experimental” sounds.
Better recordings of these events may also exist elsewhere – for instance, Zhai Ruixin of fRUITYSPACE in Beijing and Nerve of Twenty Alpha in Hong Kong have both been recording events at their respective spaces for many years. Some of these performances may also have been officially released on various record labels. When time permits I will update this list with links to these releases, where I know of them. I will also add my photographs from these events. But that will take time.
There are some links to Soundcloud uploads, but otherwise I will not share the audio files on this site. Getting everyone’s permission would be a lot of work, server space would be expensive for the downloads, and the recording quality is not great.
This list is simply meant as a useful record of a remarkably active period for underground experimental music spaces and performances on the Chinese Mainland and in Hong Kong.
Email me if you have any questions, and check out my blog for more information on the subject of non-mainstream sound and music from Mainland China and Hong Kong.