ZHAO JIAJING
赵嘉旌
Acousmatic Compositions
Installations & Multimedia
Sound Design & Soundtracks
Information
CV
Education
2024-Present: University of Arts London
2019-2020, 2022: Royal College of Art
2016-2019: The University of Sydney
2018: Waseda University
PhD in Electroacoustic Sound and Music
Under Dr. Adam Stanovic (DoS) and Dr. Rachael Finney
Under Dr. Adam Stanovic (DoS) and Dr. Rachael Finney
2019-2020, 2022: Royal College of Art
MA: Information Experience Design - Sound Design
2016-2019: The University of Sydney
BA: Music, Digital Cultures
2018: Waseda University
International Exchange Program
Selected Concerts & Presentations
2025: New Music Miami ISCM Festival, Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU, Florida, US
2025: Festival Imersivo by Project DME, Lisboa Incomum, Lisbon, PT
2025: Ignite the Arts Festival, Legacy Den, Penticton, CA
2025: SEAMUS - Space | Place | Traces, Purdue University, Lafayette, US
2024: Precarious Landscapes, Barbican Centre, London, UK
2025: Festival Imersivo by Project DME, Lisboa Incomum, Lisbon, PT
2025: IRCAM Forum - IRCAM Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2025: Ignite the Arts Festival, Legacy Den, Penticton, CA
2025: SEAMUS - Space | Place | Traces, Purdue University, Lafayette, US
2024: Precarious Landscapes, Barbican Centre, London, UK
2024: REF Resilience Festival, Arci Jaco APS, Foggia, IT
2024: Espacios Sonoros, Usina del Arte, Salta, AR
2024: New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Frank Shiner Theatre, New York City, US
2024: Musicacoustica, Zhejiang Conservatory of Music, Hangzhou, CN
2024: Culture and Sustainability Symposium 2024 by Project DME, Lisboa Incomum, Lisbon, PT
2024: Spatial Audio Gathering, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
2024: Melting Point, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK
2024: Gathering, Sound Art Museum, Beijing. CN
2023: Soundcinema Düsseldorf, Forum Freies Theater, Düsseldorf, DE
2023: Diasporas Now, NN Contemporary, Northampton, UK
2023: Temporal-Space-Spatial-Time, IKLECTIK ArtLab, London, UK
2023: Vault Festival, The Vaults, London, UK
2022: MonteAudio Art & Sound Festival, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, UY
2022: Electrify, IKLECTIK ArtLab, London, UK
2022: Everyday is Spatial - Immersive Audio Conference, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK
2022: White Noise (S.E. for Ukraine), IKLECTIK ArtLab, London, UK
2020: IRCAM Forum, IRCAM Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
2020: Transcendence Down, IKLECTIK ArtLab, London, UK
Selected Exhibitions
2025: The Engine Room International Sound Art Competition and Exhibition, Morley Gallery, UK
2024: Contemperament Music Festival, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
2024: In Search of Some Phantom, Crypt Gallery, London, UK
2023: Sound/Image Festival, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, UK
2023: Ties That Cannot Be Unbound, New Art City, Online
2022: LUMINOUS Award Exhibition, Old Street Gallery, London, UK
2022: RCA 2022 Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2023: Sound/Image Festival, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, London, UK
2023: Ties That Cannot Be Unbound, New Art City, Online
2022: LUMINOUS Award Exhibition, Old Street Gallery, London, UK
2022: RCA 2022 Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Awards
2024: MUSICACOUSTICA-HANGZHOU Electroacoustic Music Composition Competition, Finalist
2022: LUMINOUS by RCA & LG Display Art and Design Competition, Third Prize
Residencies
2023: Spæs Lab for Spatial Aesthetics in Sound, Berlin, DE
2021: The Untitled Space (ACENTRICSPACE), Shanghai, CN
2021: The Untitled Space (ACENTRICSPACE), Shanghai, CN
Selected Project Credits
2024: Co-author, sound designer - Trembling Chamber, Wenxin Zhang
Exhibited at ICA, NYU Shanghai
2024: Sound Recordist & Producer for Exhibition – NUMBER 207, Reza Aramesh
Exhibited at Chiesa Di San Fantin, Venice
Exhibited at Chiesa Di San Fantin, Venice
2023: Spatial Sound Arrangement & Sound Design for Dome Film – Material Topology, Ke Peng
Exhibited at C-Lab Taiwan, SAT Montreal
2023: Co-director, Sound Designer, Performer for Theatre – Traces of the Wind, NOT SET Group
Premiered at Vault Festival London
2022: Sound Designer for Art – 3607 _ Bacterial Soundscape, Kexin Liu
Exhibited at 2023 Edinburgh Science Festival
2021: Composer, Sound Designer for Theatre – World on a Wire, New Youth Group
Premiered at Wuzhen Festival 2021 and touring since then
2021: Co-composer for Theatre – JPEG, Sleep-less
Premiered at Inside-Out theatre and toured between 2021-22
2021: Co-composer for Theatre – 1 yottabyte Leben, Guanghao Wang
Premiered at Inside-Out theatre and toured between 2021-22
2020: Composer, Sound Designer for Theatre – A Useless Handbook for Must-See Images, NO22
Premiered at Inside-Out theatre
Teaching
2024 - Present: Mentor; Visiting Lecturer (Interactive & Spatial Audio Programming) - MA Design Audio Experiences, University College London
2023 - Present: Freelance Mentor for undergraduate and graduate sound & art student
- Mentored work by Junying Wu was awarded EKP Excellence in Research Award 2024
Curations
2022: ELECTRIFY, IKLECTIK ArtLab, London, UK