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music album by SHENSDuo
A pipa duo featuring Shenshen Zhang and Sophia Shen.
2021 Innova Recordings Bay Area Pilot Project (American Composers Forum). Global Music Awards Silver Medal in World Music and Duo category, 2024.
sound design, 5.1 mixing and score
Written and directed by Yihan Lin; international premiere at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival; Housen Short Film Award at the 19th Osaka Asian Film Festival, 2024; Award of Pioneering at 2023 FIRST International Film Festival, Xining, China.
music album by Southeast of Rain
A collection of electro-acoustic improvisations and compositions for pipa, voice, field recordings, and electronics. Composed and recorded during the international artist residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in 2019. Bandcamp “New and Notable“, BBC Radio 3 Late Junction, I Care If You Listen featured.
score and sound design for short film
Written and directed by Edna Luise Biesold; Audience Choice Award at 2023 Sedona International Film Festival; Special Jury Award at 2022 SoHo International Film Festival
composition for podcast Immaterial
A podcast produced by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Magnificent Noise.
debut solo EP
The Unveiling embodies its creator’s multifaceted personality and takes the listener on an exploration of original pipa music fused with traditional and experimental compositions. It features a wide range of genre-bending repertoire, from acoustic compositions inspired by ancient Chinese poetry and written in cipher notation to improvisations with algorithmically-generated synesthesia-evoking electronics.
multichannel fixed media in collaboration with Gabby Wen
San Francisco Tape Music Festival, The Victoria Theater, San Francisco, California, 2018
Stereo mix of the multichannel fixed media version
I. Membrane
Field recordings from Alaska
II. Rainstorm
Field recordings from Zhangzhou, Fujian, China. Processed in RTcmix.
III. The Last 23 of Us
Eight-channel data mapping in RTcmix.