ZHAO JIAJING
赵嘉旌
Acousmatic Compositions
Installations & Multimedia
3D Sound Studio
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Bio.
Zhao Jiajing (family name–given name, b. China) is an electroacoustic composer and sound artist based in London.
Zhao’s practice spans acousmatic music, sound installation, performance, and new media. Since 2019, he has focused on spatial sound, creating multichannel compositions and installations. His work explores questions of time, technological mediation, and our evolving relationship with both the digital and natural worlds. He frequently collaborates across disciplines, working with practitioners and researchers in visual art, theatre, science, and technology.
His work has been presented internationally at venues and events including IRCAM (FR), ZKM Karlsruhe (DE), Soundcinema Düsseldorf (DE), Barbican Centre (UK), Sound/Image Festival (UK), Espacios Sonoros (AR), ICMC (Int’l/US), NYCEMF (US), ISCM New Music Miami (US), and Musicacoustica (CN), among others. He has received awards and finalist recognition from The Engine Room (2025), Musicacoustica (2024), and Luminous by LG Display and RCA (2022).
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), supervised by Adam Stanović. He is also a mentor and visiting lecturer for the MA in Designing Audio Experiences at University College London.
Email: jiajingzhao96(at)gmail(dot)com
Instagram @zhao_jiajing_
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When I place myself within a body of sound, I’m captivated by its ability to transcend the purely aural and physical experience. Within sound, I can often see, touch, and even smell, sensing a world, if not multiple worlds, unfolding around me. This embodied listening lies at the centre of my compositions and sound art practice, shaping how I create and experience work.
Since 2019, I have been deeply immersed in the world of spatial sound, exploring its many forms, from Ambisonic compositions to multichannel sonic installations. Every sound contains its own space. At times, I see myself as both artist and architect, navigating the delicate intersection between acousmatic and physical environments. I am drawn to the potential of space as an expressive medium - one capable of articulating concepts that reach beyond the limits of sound and music.
My curiosity extends naturally across disciplines. I am endlessly fascinated by the moment when new forms and ideas emerge from the collision of diverse fields, and this fascination drives me to collaborate with visual artists, theatre-makers, scientists, and others. These encounters leave their mark on my work with sound and space, while in turn my practice feeds back into those fields.
The contemporary world often feels fast-paced, dataist, and relentlessly distracting. Living within it unsettles many, including myself. Music and art are my intuitive responses to the collective anxiety of this hyperactive age. My work draws on first-hand experiences of contemporary crises: questions of temporality, acceleration, and technology, alongside themes of surveillance, the attention economy, nature, and sound ecology.
Through my practice, I pursue an ongoing existential inquiry—a quiet insistence on being in a world that so often feels abstract and disembodied.
Outside the studio, I love to explore nature: the ocean, forests, mountains, seeking scales of time and space so vast that our fleeting human existence feels insignificant. In these moments, I can step away from the fast-shifting human world and look deeper into the meaning of life. I am also drawn to tennis and cooking, both providing shifts in rhythm and tension, and each producing its own pleasing sounds.