ZHAO JIAJING
赵嘉旌
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Zhao Jiajing is a electroacoustic composer, sound designer, and interdisciplinary artist based in London.
Zhao Jiajing’s artistic practice encompasses sound, installation, and new media, exploring themes such as temporality, technology, digital cultures, and nature. Since 2019, he has been deeply engaged in spatial sound, creating multichannel compositions and installations. His works employ space as both an expressive medium and a responsive instrument.
Zhao Jiajing’s works have been presented internationally at events and places such as the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (US), Soundcinema Düsseldorf (DE), Espacios Sonoros (AR), Sound/Image Festival (UK), Barbican Centre (UK), IRCAM (FR) , Lisboa Incomum (PT), and Sound Art Museum (CN), among many others. As a multi-skilled composer and sound designer, he has collaborated with pioneering theatre groups, performers, and visual artists, creating projects that captivate audiences worldwide. Zhao is also the founder and director of Soundworlds Studio, a London-based immersive sound design studio.
Zhao holds an MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art and is currently pursuing a PhD in Electroacoustic Music at the University of the Arts London (CRiSAP) under the supervision of Adam Stanović. He is also a mentor and visiting lecturer for the MA in Designing Audio Experience at University College London.
Email: jiajingzhao96(at)gmail(dot)com
Instagram @zhao_jiajing_
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Since 2019, I have become deeply immersed in the world of spatial sound, exploring its diverse forms, from Ambisonics to multichannel sonic installations. I am captivated by the way space can be designed as an instrument, transforming both the aural and bodily experience. At times, I perceive myself as both artist and architect when navigating the delicate intersection between fictional and physical spaces. For me, the reasons for using spatial sound are manifold, not generalised. I am drawn to its potential as an expressive medium that can articulate diverse concepts beyond sound and music.
My practice spans disciplines, often in collaboration with artists, scientists, and technologists. I find inspiration in the theories and aesthetics of diverse fields, which inform my work with sound and space, creating a dynamic exchange that feeds back into those same fields. I am always in search of the magical moment when new forms and ideas emerge from the collision of influences across disciplines.
Music and art, for me, are ways to address the collective anxiety of our hyperactive world. My reflections on contemporary crises—such as temporality, accelerationism, and technology—serve as central inspirations, while my work also engages with broader themes, including surveillance, the attention economy, nature, and post-humanism.
photo cr. Eivind Sorgenfryd