There are two mutually exclusive opinions regarding jazz musician Ornette Coleman. By some he is considered a visionary genius, representing the "third spur" of the Modernist revolution -- "a shift in approach to melody and rhythm to match Coltrane's skyscraping harmonics and Cecil Taylor's introduct

Deconstructive, Formless, Free/avant-garde, Hard bop/post-bop, Layered, Polychromatic, Sprawling

Huang Yongping is a rebel who playfully rejects cultural dogma. He identifies neither with Asian tradition nor with trends imported from the West -- though he employs both. His work is a perpetual contestation of received ideas, an attempt both to empty cultural space of its ideological clutter and t

Bombast, Citational, Deconstructive, Event, Formless

Harry Che is a web developer and entrepreneur living in Vancouver, Canada, helping people express themselves and contribute to the society through creative and meaningful causes. Harry was born in China and moved to Los Angles in 2001. He has been working on various web projects since then, rangin

Charming, Composed, Formless, Hi-tech, Hypnotic, Joyful, Pristine, Quiet, Rhythmic, Self-reflection, Sensual, Serene, Sincere

Paul Celan was born in Czernovitz, in Romania, in 1920. Until 1918, this region of Romania had formed part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, a polyglot amalgam of nations stretching from Austria in the west to the Balkans in the south-east. Though each region spoke its own language, and many Jewish com

Contemplative, Depressive, Dissonant, Dramatic, Expansive, Formless, Political, Postmodern poetry