Making Music in China

Farhan Ahmed moved to China after graduation, hoping to play music there with Middlebury classmate George Mynatt. In Dali, a town in Yunnan province, he reports, “We have been running Caffeine Arts Club, a bar and a community art space for musicians, artists, and photographers” that is also home to Farhan and George’s media production company, the Melting Iceberg Collective (micebergcollective.wordpress.com).

“MIC just completed an animation for PBS’s Planet Forward, on China’s environmental role,” Ahmed says, “and is working on a documentary project called Whose China? Our music is going on at the same time as Erhai Sonic Research Group.”