ZHAO Yixuan is a composer, lecturer at the Electronic Music Center, Department of Music AI and Music Information Technology, Central Conservatory of Music, China, visiting researcher at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK, member of Electroacoustic Music Association of China (EMAC). She worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Central Conservatory of Music.
She has been dedicated to exploring the practice of digital audio and artificial intelligence in music composition, and collaborating with performers to search more possibilities in technological performance environments. Her composition, which mainly focuses on interactive music, electroacoustic music, contemporary music, and new media art, her works have won numerous awards and performed in many international conferences and concerts, including Journées d’Informatique Musicale, NIME, ICMC, ARS ELECTRONICA, TiMP, IRCAM Forum, China-UK International Music Festival, ByPass Festival, Nottingham New Music Festival, MUSICACOUSTICA-BEIJING, Summit on Music Intelligence, Beijing Youth Arts Festival, WOCMAT Taiwan, etc.
She joined the indie rock band “Future Orients” as a synthesizer musician in 2018. In the late 2019, she and other band members completed the EP which entitled “Dream like a buffalo”.