Since arriving in China many years ago I've discovered the vast variety and diversity Chinese traditional music to be is almost overwhelming. From the ethnic traditions of Yunnan to the dramatic semimentality of Chinese traditional opera there's an incredible amount of sonic bounty to be discovered.

I recently came across these two fascinating projects that I'd like to share, China field Recordings and Kink gong.

China field recordings who describe their beginings as "an ambitious plan to record traditional songs of Zhejiang Province, located in southeast China" have recently embarked on more extensive travel throughout China, including GuiZhou and GuangXi to capturie and document the audio and video recordings of traditional and rare ethnic Chinese music.

Kink gong, a French national named Laurent Jeanneau, who since the end of the 90s has been recording the music of endangered minorities of South East Asia. Alongside his relentless pursue of remote exotic and unpublished musical traditions, he also started creating electronic versions under his Kink Gong monicker, by combining raw recordings with electronically treated sounds.

Both are really facinating and worthwhile endeavours that have certainly opened my eyes to the rich diversity of Chinese raditional music.