Everyone knows what one plus one equals? Except Tan Dun, a well-known Chinese musician, gets his own answer from the last five years in China.

Having won an Oscar for his movie score for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", composer Tan Dun has easily sashayed between the Eastern and Western music scenes. Five years ago, he came back to his motherland, China, to make his Chinese dreams come true.

Tan Dun, Composer, said, "Now the entire world is paying attention to Chinese Culture."

On the Chinese Web, there's one particular descriptive that is frequently associated with Tan Dun...Organic Music. In the past five years or so, he has composed "Water Music", "Paper Music", and "Ceramic Music". And all these pieces have toured around the globe. Even water from the Yangtze River, the headwaters of five-thousand-year-old Chinese culture, is used as organic musical instruments.

Tan Dun, Composer, said, "Before we are born, we first heard the sound of water in our mother's womb. Now we are listening to the sound of our mother earth. Therefore, the water is sort of the hope of the world."

Tan Dun has also bent himself to making his works blend the traditional with the modern. During the Shanghai World Expo, Tan Dun moved a classical Kunqu Opera, the "Peony Pavilion", out of the theatre, and performed it at gardens with a history of over 400 years.

Tan Dun, Composer, said, "For me, one plus one equals to one. It means Eastern plus Western. It's the synchronization of nature and human beings."

Tan Dun always wears a T-shirt printed "One Plus One Equals to One". He said this is the best way to express his own music philosophy.

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