Yang also grew up in the 1990s surrounded by teenage friends obsessed with pop music and by pop stars, mostly from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Nevertheless he has never been truly touched by music of any type, even though he has been learning to play piano from 6 to 9 and passed piano grade examination stage 5.

Yang listens to music, mostly quiet classical music, as background music when he is reading.

"In my 30 years of life I have never closed my eyes, and have paid absolute attention as I enjoyed the music. I regard it as a tool to help me concentrate."

He first started to watch The Big Band on the recommendation of a highly respected friend, and soon was putting aside two hours every Saturday to watch it.

Rock band Hedgehog. [Photo provided to China Daily]

Blue Daydreaming is a song created by Hedgehog, a band established in 2005. Yang says it was of the most talented but underrated bands in Beijing before the show began.

For him Hedgehog conveys "optimism alongside constant struggle" in its songs, the fruit of the group's own non-straight forward path in pursuing its dreams in rock music.

"Once you get what they want to say, you sort of develop a bond with the band, and that bond is not going to simply vanish. I can now see that my own experience and this music have something in common. I think the 'I' factor is always the most important part of the individual appraisal of every art form: 'I sympathize', 'I understand', 'I was cured', 'I was touched', 'I was inspired'. All have happened to me."