Electronic music gets jolt of good vibes
China DailyYin Fei, a percussionist, will perform in the concert to be held in Beijing on June 8. CHINA DAILY Before Zhang attended university, he spent eight years working with the singing and dancing troupe of Changchun city in Jilin province, where he composed music and played the erhu and bassoon. It was hard to find materials about contemporary music in the library since the country was just opening-up," Zhang recalls. He also founded the Beijing Electroacoustic Music Festival that same year, inviting international electronic musicians to perform in Beijing. "From buying equipment to organizing teaching materials, we've trained students for bachelor's, master's and PhD degrees, who are now major sources of teachers of electronic music in the country."