ZHAO Yixuan is a composer, a lecturer at the Electronic Music Center, Department of Music AI and Music Information Technology, Central Conservatory of Music, China, and a visiting researcher at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, UK. 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 for more possibilities in technological performance environments. Her composition span 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 NIME, ICMC, Ars Electronica, TENOR, Summit on Music Intelligence, Journées d’Informatique Musicale, NYCEMF, TiMP, IRCAM Forum, China-UK International Music Festival, Nottingham New Music Festival, MUSICACOUSTICA-BEIJING, Beijing Youth Arts Festival, WOCMAT Taiwan, among others.
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 “Dream like a buffalo”. In 2023, they completed the album “Fine”.