ZHAO JIAJING
赵嘉旌
Spatial Music Compositions 空间音乐作曲
Installations & Multimedia 装置与多媒体
Project Credits 项目经历
Information 艺术家信息
ZHAO JIAJING
Spatial Music Compositions 空间音乐作曲
Installations & Multimedia 装置与多媒体
Project Credits 项目经历
Information 艺术家信息
Bio.
Zhao Jiajing (赵嘉旌; family name–given name) is an electroacoustic composer and sound artist from Beijing.
Zhao’s practice spans acousmatic music, live electronic music, sound installation, and new media. Since 2019, he has focused on spatial sound research, creating a body of multichannel works that explore questions of time, technological mediation, and the evolving relationship between the digital and natural worlds. He frequently collaborates across disciplines, working with practitioners and researchers across the arts and sciences.
Zhao’s work ‘FOMO’ was selected to represent the ISCM British Section at the ISCM World New Music Days 2026. His recognitions and commissions include Musica Nova, Aesthetica/Audible, the Shanghai International Arts Festival, and the RCA/LG Display Art and Design Award. His work has been featured at major international venues and festivals such as Ars Electronica, IRCAM, ZKM Karlsruhe, ICMC, SICMF, and ORF musikprotokoll.
Zhao holds an MA in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art and is currently pursuing a PhD 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.
赵嘉旌是一位空间音乐作曲家和声音艺术家，来自北京。他的实践涵盖实验电子音乐、声音装置以及新媒体。自 2019 年以来，他专注于空间声音研究，创作了一系列空间作曲与多声道装置作品。赵嘉旌的作品探讨时间、技术媒介，以及人类与数字和自然世界之间不断演变的关系。他频繁开展跨学科合作，与视觉艺术、戏剧、科学及技术领域的实践者和研究者共同进行探索。
赵嘉旌入选作为国际当代音乐协会英国分会代表参加 2026 年 ISCM World New Music Day。 其作品曾呈现于林茨电子艺术节（Ars Electronica）、法国声音音乐研究院（IRCAM）、德国 ZKM 卡尔斯鲁厄艺术与媒体中心、国际计算机音乐大会（ICMC）、韩国首尔国际电脑音乐节（SICMF）、法国马赛国家音乐创作中心（GMEM）及奥地利 ORF musikprotokoll。赵嘉旌的创作曾获得多个国际艺术机构的认可与委约，包括捷克 Musica Nova、Aesthetica/Audible、上海国际艺术节、杭州国际电子音乐节（Musicacoustica）、英国皇家艺术学院/LG Display 以及奥地利格拉茨 IEM 等。
赵嘉旌持有英国皇家艺术学院（RCA）信息体验设计硕士学位，现于伦敦艺术大学（CRiSAP）攻读博士学位，师从 Adam Stanović。同时，他也担任伦敦大学学院（UCL）音频体验设计硕士课程的导师及客座讲师。
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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.
cr. Fan Ji