Zhao Jiajing 赵嘉旌Spatial music composer · Interdisciplinary sound artist
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About

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Zhao Jiajing works across acousmatic music, live electronics, sound installation and new media. He uses space as an expressive medium to explore embodied listening and how technology shapes the worlds we sense and inhabit.

Recognition

2026

FOMO selected to represent the ISCM British Section at ISCM World New Music Days; ISCM Young Composer Award nominee.

2025

Aesthetica × Audible × LCC, “The Listening Pitch” Commission Prize; PSeME, Third Prize; MUSICACOUSTICA-HANGZHOU, Third Award; S3DAPC, Bronze Prize; Musica Nova, Finalist.

2022

RCA × LG Display LUMINOUS Art and Design Competition, Third Prize.

Education

2024–

PhD researcher, University of the Arts London (CRiSAP); “Ecological Approaches to Spatial Music Experience”.

2019–20, 2022

MA, Information Experience Design (Sound Design), Royal College of Art; dissertation awarded Distinction.

2016–19

BA, Music and Digital Cultures, The University of Sydney.

Selected presentations

2026

ISCM World New Music Days, Bucharest; ICMC, Hamburg; Festival Supersonique / GMEM, Marseille; IN-SONORA, Madrid.

2025

Ars Electronica, Linz; ZKM Hertzlab, Karlsruhe; ICMC, Boston; ORF musikprotokoll, Graz; SICMF, Seoul; Shanghai International Arts Festival; IRCAM Forum, Paris.

2024

Barbican Centre, London; Musicacoustica, Hangzhou; Spatial Audio Gathering, Leicester.

Selected works

2026

Omniopticon; Naiad (revised).

2025

FOMO; Drifting Voices; A(nother) Trip to the Moon (film soundtrack).

2024

Durée; Glitchopolis; Trembling Chamber (with Zhang Wenxin); Time-flux.

Teaching

Visiting Lecturer, MA Designing Audio Experiences, University College London.

This is a selected CV. The complete CV is available upon request via email.