Pan Daijing is a self-taught, self-proclaimed outsider who makes music, art, and tells stories. Born and raised in Guiyang, Southwest China, she has lived in Berlin since 2016. Rooted in noise music, her raw approach as a composer and performer takes many forms; primarily performance art, sound, dance and installation, hinging heavily on improvisation and acts of storytelling. Soul exposing utterances and sonic, aesthetic outbursts as a means of direct communication are the main tendons of her practice; vehicles of power and vulnerability are interwoven in her work sensorially rather than as statements. The output is poetic and uncanny, often oscillating along paradoxical conceptual states.

Cited as one of the most exciting figures in the current avant-garde, she has showcased her work and performed in museums, theaters, churches and underground clubs. Besides touring, eating cake, and taking care of a tortoise, she is currently constructing a multidisciplinary new opera, a collaboration series with designer Ximon Lee, and her next album which focuses on vocal performance. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.