Asian culture (was: OT DID YOU KNOW?)

[Rainer Straschill <moinsound@googlemail.com>]

Sjaak asked:
"Let me ask you another question: do Asians create some kind of
experimental music? Ambient, Avant-Garde? Or do we consider these as
strictly "Western" because of the culturale differences?"

My experience may be rather limited as may be my education to this
regard, but my experiences are as follows: there is a lot of
cutting-edge avant-garde/experimental music coming from Japan.
However, most of this material is largely influenced by Western stuff.

          Rainer