Bio
musician · sound artist · researcher
Haotian Wang is a musician (songwriter/composer), sound artist, and researcher from Yunnan, Southwest China. His work blends songwriting, ambient composition, and sonic storytelling to explore themes of memory, migration, and listening.
Raised between Guangzhou, Yunnan, and Shanghai, and now based in the U.S., Haotian moves across cultures, disciplines, which are translated into diverse music, sound, and scholarly works. He received his MA in Sound Arts and Industries from Northwestern University and BA in Music, Sound, and Culture from NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. In fall 2025, he begins his doctoral studies in Ethnomusicology at Duke University.
Haotian’s music blends ambient pop, folk, field recording, and poetry. The debut album "The Bridge in The Mountain's Hands (A Travelog)"(2022) was named a “Bandcamp New and Notable Album.” His sophomore album Story of the Leaves (2024) and its B-side EP "Aqua" (2025) continue his journey through ambient textures and poetic storytelling. He is also half of the electronic duo Parallel EVE, expanding his sonic palette into ambient electronic music and sound collage.
Beyond album-making, Haotian creates inter/transdisciplinary art projects that weave together sound, happening, field recording, and immersive experiences. He’s performed at venues internationally including 6018|North, Breaking Sound, Elastic Arts and the Chicago Laboratory for Electro-Acoustic Theatre, where he works with spatial audio and 16-channel systems.
As a music and sound scholar, Haotian is interested in how globalization shapes the way we conceptualize, perform, and listen to folk music. His research engages music and sound(scape) from Southwest China, sound studies, cross-cultural exchange, grounded in sound ethnography and field recording as methodology.
More about his music, sound, and research can be found at: haotianwangmusic.com