Zhao Cong

Zhao Cong is an experimental and improvising musician who lives in Beijing. She played bass in rock bands before starting to perform solo improvised music in 2016. Without any formal music training, she works with everyday objects, often balloons, which she amplifies with different kinds of microphones to draw unfamiliar sounds out of them. Her setups have also included a mixer, a contact microphone, a cardboard tube and household objects.