Education

2024-Present: University of Arts London
PhD in Electroacoustic Sound and Music
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: Festival Imersivo by Project DME, Lisboa Incomum, Lisbon, PT 

    2025: Ignite the Arts Festival, Legacy Den, Penticton, CA 

    2025: IRCAM Forum - IRCAM Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR

    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

    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