ZHAO JIAJING
赵嘉旌
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Zhao Jiajing is a 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 compositions craft electroacoustic and electronic soundworlds that evoke cross-sensory imaginations.
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), IRCAM (FR), Barbican Centre (UK), 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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I see myself as an architect of sound worlds, entranced by the ephemeral realms within sound: the concrete, the fictional, and the paradoxical. I am captivated by the unique power of sound to build worlds that other mediums cannot replicate.
In my composition and sound design, I extensively utilise field recordings. I manipulate the time, space, and essence of these sound fragments through granulation, collaging, synthesis, and filtering to craft new soundscapes. Since 2019, I have explored various formats of immersive sound, from Ambisonic spatial audio to multichannel sonic installations without loudspeakers.
In creating my works, I fully embrace chaos and indeterminacy. I employ diverse generative techniques that grant autonomy to my artistic creations, allowing me to observe their behaviours as if they were living entities.
I view art and music as ways to address the collective anxiety of our hyperactive world. My experiences with the contemporary crises of time, capitalism, and technology serve as my central inspirations, while my works also delve into broader themes such as surveillance, the attention economy, nature, and post-humanism.
In my composition and sound design, I extensively utilise field recordings. I manipulate the time, space, and essence of these sound fragments through granulation, collaging, synthesis, and filtering to craft new soundscapes. Since 2019, I have explored various formats of immersive sound, from Ambisonic spatial audio to multichannel sonic installations without loudspeakers.
In creating my works, I fully embrace chaos and indeterminacy. I employ diverse generative techniques that grant autonomy to my artistic creations, allowing me to observe their behaviours as if they were living entities.
I view art and music as ways to address the collective anxiety of our hyperactive world. My experiences with the contemporary crises of time, capitalism, and technology serve as my central inspirations, while my works also delve into broader themes such as surveillance, the attention economy, nature, and post-humanism.
photo cr. Eivind Sorgenfryd