Education

2024-Present: University of Arts London
PhD: Crafting Electroacoustic Sound Worlds
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 Performances & Presentations

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: Project DME - Cultura & Sustentabilidade, Lisboa Incomum,  Lisbon, PT

2024: Spatial Audio Gathering, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

2024: Melting Point, Goldsmiths CCA, London, UK

2024: Gathering No.1, 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

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

2021: Ongoing Mystical Experiments, The Untitled Space, Shanghai, CN



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



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

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



Curations

2023: Temporal-Space-Spatial-Time, IKLECTIK ArtLab, London, UK

2022: ELECTRIFY, IKLECTIK ArtLab, London, UK




Teaching

2024 - Present: Mentor - MA Design Audio Experiences, UCL

2024 - Present: Visiting Lecturer (Interactive & Spatial Audio Programming) - MA Design Audio Experiences, UCL

2023 - Present: Freelance Mentor for undergraduate and graduate sound & art student
    • Mentored work by Junying Wu was awarded EKP Excellence in Research Award 2024
ZHAO JIAING 赵 嘉旌
Composer, Sound Designer, interdisciplinary Artist
jiajingzhao96(at)gmail(dot)com