“Ting Shuo’s founders also see their programming of participatory sound art and noise as a reverberation of the traditional sounds surrounding them: nanguan and beiguan music. The two styles arose in Fujian province in mainland China, traveling to Taiwan in the 17th century with Hoklo migrants, and have continued to be performed for hundreds of years. ‘[Nanguan] is a very social and collective kind of music. Performers gather together for a whole day and just play. People might take different seats, play different instruments,’ says Chang. For her, the collective openness of nanguan music feels close to her improvisational practice and that of the artists that congregate at Ting Shuo.

Beiguan, on the other hand, is noisy. “It’s temple music, where you might have like 20 people playing the suona, which is a kind of crazy loud reed horn instrument, as well as a bunch of gongs and metal percussion,” says Chang. For her, the out-of-body experience produced by Beiguan music cuts close to the catharsis caused by a noise or punk show.”

https://daily.bandcamp.com/scene-report/tainan-experimental-scene-report

Want to do something like this adapted to America…