Guzheng musician, trans-media artist, producer who plays nylon- and steel-strung Guzheng, multi-tone Guzheng, and other plucked string instruments, including Xuan Qin, Duxian Qin, Koto, and more. Their multidisciplinary work spans sound, writing, spoken word, and cross-media performances. They were awarded prizes for both solo and ensemble performances at the China-Japan-Korea International Guzheng Conference in 2013.
With a background rooted in diverse cultural and artistic fields, Zhuyang explores and fuses ethnic and contemporary soundscapes. They utilize found materials to create unconventional instruments and electronics, improvising with complex, fictional rhythms that evoke a broad, immersive sonic landscape. As a researcher, Zhuyang mainly focus on sound politics, forensics in sound ecology, musicology and Instruments. Writing includes ‘The Sonic Arsenal of Alternative Instruments: An ‘Unconventional Warfare’ in Sound, Noise, and Conflict.’
Zhuyang has collaborated across diverse fields and disciplines. They have composed scores and designed sound for numerous acclaimed independent films and stage works, sound direction for fashion collections, audio engineering and recording for Triple-A video games, designing acoustic systems and sound environments. They are the film producer of the album ‘Music in the realm of Fireflies’（World Music Awards）. In queer film ‘Run! Dorothy Run!’ and ‘Fox and Women’ by Jinghao Shen, Zhuyang’s compositions integrate Chinese Xiqu, Peking Opera, folk songs, Asian instruments, and local field recordings with contemporary scopes held in the collection of CAFA art museum
Zhuyang’s UK and China-based projects include the experimental collective Lao San Yang 老三样 explores the expressive potential of experimental art, global music, theatre opera, free improvisation, cross-media narratives, electronic music, noise, installations, and ethnic instruments in a contemporary context. Water Dragon Temple is a fully improvised album, Duo with Paul Chenour on flutes released in 2023. EP ‘Slip animals’ (2023) is an electronic-acoustic fusion solo album produced and composed by Zhuyang. ‘’Other projects include the duo Epic Life Doggerel Verse and the hybrid electronic project system ZHUYANGER 撞.
Recent performances have taken place such as British Museum, Hundred Years Gallery / Frappant e.V. Gallery Hamburg/ Pushkin House/ Copeland Gallery /JZ Jazz Club, Hangzhou/ SYSTEM , Shanghai
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