BIO

Yunyu is a multilingual Composer, Sound Designer, Singer-songwriter, Storyteller, Programmer and Spatial Audio PhD Researcher with Dolby Laboratories / The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).

With a strong background in world music and contemporary pop, Yunyu has played a variety of instruments ranging from vocals and keyboards to Taiko, Guzheng, Guqin, and Hulusi. An alumna at AFTRS (Australian Film and Television Radio School) and graduating with a Graduate Diploma in Screen Music, her works have premiered in film festivals worldwide.

Previous awards include winning triple j Unearthed (Australia’s national radio network competition),  the Crystal Pine award for “Best Composer for Short” at the International Sound and Film Music Festival (Croatia). In 2024, she was a finalist in the prestigious APRA AMCOS Australian Art Music Awards for Work of the Year in Electroacoustic and Sound Art and is a Roland-endorsed artist.

Yunyu’s innovative compositions have been featured at the Ars Electronica Festival for two consecutive years and at ACM SIGGRAPH Asia (Real Time Live! with Taikoz and Roland Japan), where she created a solo Taiko piece that generates responsive orchestral layers in real-time.

This year, Yunyu continues her European tour at NIME (Netherlands – New Instrument Musical Expression) and Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), presenting two of her works as installations and interactive music performances. She is also the recipient of the competitive Creative Music Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups grant, enabling her to further develop the next installation of her real-time orchestral layered performances with Taikoz.

As a PhD researcher in binaural spatial audio, Yunyu’s practice-based research focuses on “Quest Driven Spatial Songs,” which are headphone-driven experiences that adapt to the listener’s position in space-time, revealing different arrangements and lyrics. Her research is supported by scholarships from Dolby and the University of Technology Sydney.