HELLO!

 

I am a musician, sound artist, and researcher working across diverse practices of sound and music—both artistic and scholarly. My work includes music albums, sound collages, field recordings, and intermedial/multi-modal research-creation. My inquiries are centered on how sounds move across/in-between places, bodies, media, and modes of listening.

 

My PhD research works on the diverse sonic practices in my hometown, Yunnan, at the border of Southwest China. My current dissertation project attends to forms of transregional and transnational circulation, translation, and transduction of ethnic minority musical and sonic practices, including Hani, part of my maternal heritage.

 

Alongside my academic works, I actively write, compose, and perform original music in the US and China, interweaving field recordings and ambient electronic music together into poetic assemblages.

 

Please navigate my website pages for details on projects, recordings, performances, and research.

 

For commissions, collaborations, and other forms of inquiries, please reach out to haotianwmusic@gmail.com :)