ChoP is a musical duo founded by a Chinese experimental musician, sound artist Zen Lu and Polish experimental musician Grzegorz Bojanek in 2006. Their method of composing is mainly by means of transferring and exchanging music samples of any kind (mainly recorded traditional instruments, field recordings in China and Poland, etc.) over the internet, and treatment afterwords. The album reflects the exploration of differences in experimental music between sound artists of two different cultures and societies. The first album of ChoP, titled "over a foul line / simple questions" was released in 2007. ChoP is not a one-off project between Zen and Grzegorz only. Each ChoP album is planned to invite different artists from two countries to appear in this series of future releases. Dickson Dee (Hong Kong) experimental musician and Tomasz Pauszek (RND), Polish electronic musician, have been invited to join in the composition of "Chop vol.2",which was released in March 2008. We have also invited Sin:Ned (Hong Kong) and Minoo (Poland) to join to ChoP vol.3, KLC_NIR (China) and Nejmano (Ploand) join to ChoP vol.4, Bai Tian (China) and Krzysztof Orluk (Poland) to join ChoP vol. 5, and more artists to come.
In 2010 ChoP's myspace was found by a British independent director and video artist Isaac Julien. He decided to use the music of ChoP vol. 1 in his latest 9-screen video installation called "Ten Thousand Waves". It's premiere during 17th Biennale of Sydney was a big success, just as the further exhibitions in ShanghART (Shanghai). Isaac Julien made a one screen version of the installation which is titled "Better Life". "Better Life" also contains the music of the ChoP duo. It was first shown during the 67th Venice Film Festival 2010. Isaac invited Zen and Greg to join him during the 8th Shanghai Biennale - "Rehearsal" and play live music to his film. During the first two days of the Biennale ChoP played 5 live-acts which were recorded separately. It is still possible to watch the film and listen to one of the recorded live-acts in Shanghai Art Museum until January 23rd 2011.
ChoP vol.1=Zen Lu(China)+Grzegorz Bojanek(Poland)
ChoP vol.2=Dickson Dee(China)+RND(Poland)
ChoP vol.3=Sin:Ned(China)+Minoo(Poland)
ChoP vol.4=KLC_NIR(China)+Nejmano(Poland)
ChoP vol.5=Bai Tian(China)+Krzysztofo Orluk(Poland)
ChoP vol.6=JFI(China)+Krzysiek Cybulski(Poland)
ChoP vol.7=erDao(China)+Nmls(Poland)
ChoP vol.8=Lou Nanli(China)+Jarek Grzesica (Poland)
www.chop-project.com
ChoP是由中国实验电子乐手、声音艺术家陆正与波兰实验音乐家Grzegorz Bojanek共同发起的新音乐跨国合作交流项目，通过网络传输的方式相互传递素材进行创作，体现出两种不同文化背景、不同社会形态下两国前卫音乐家对于实验音乐、声音艺术的探索与碰撞。ChoP vol.1 已经出版，ChoP不仅仅局限于Zen Lu和Grzegorz之间的创作，他们在每一系列出版中均邀请一位中国和波兰艺术家加入创作，香港实验音乐家Dickson Dee和波兰电子音乐家Tomasz Pauszek(RND)共同创作ChoP vol.2，并于2008年2月出版发行了唱片ChoP vol.2 ；同样来自香港的Sin:Ned和波兰的Minoo共同创作了ChoP vol.3，现已出版。参加ChoP vol.4的艺术家为KLC_NIR(中国)和Nejmano（波兰），他们的创作已于2009年3月出版。ChoP不仅仅局限于通过网络交流、创作和出版唱片，文字对话和图片及影像记录也是其中一部分，除此之外现场演出也是该项目非常重要的内容，自2007年开始，中国和波兰的音乐家在两个国家14座城市进行了三次巡回演出，他们从虚拟世界的合作进入真实世界的表演，用这种方式回应了ChoP的主题：跨国与协作。
目前为止共有16位中国和波兰艺术家参与ChoP项目，他们是：
ChoP vol.1=Zen Lu(China)+Grzegorz Bojanek(Poland)
ChoP vol.2=Dickson Dee(China)+RND(Poland)
ChoP vol.3=Sin:Ned(China)+Minoo(Poland)
ChoP vol.4=KLC_NIR(China)+Nejmano(Poland)
ChoP vol.5=Bai Tian(China)+Krzysztofo Orluk(Poland)
ChoP vol.6=JFI(China)+Krzysiek Cybulski(Poland)
ChoP vol.7=erDao(China)+Nmls(Poland)
ChoP vol.8=Lou Nanli(China)+Jarek Grzesica (Poland)