Artist Bio
Huichun Yang (楊惠鈞) is a Taiwanese experimental musician based in New York City. Shaped by her years in Providence, Rhode Island, she improvises with self-built wooden instruments, balloons, mouth harps, alongside electronics and computer processing, transforming bodily tension into sound. Through breath and touch, her performances ground the body and use inner rhythm as a way of building relationships with her instruments. Huichun has taught live coding at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has performed both DIY venues and internationally at ICMC (Boston), Non-Event (Boston), Residual Noise (Providence), EESF (California), and the SOUND/IMAGE Festival (London). She received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant in 2025.
Artist Statement
My practice in electroacoustic improvisation and instrument building grows from the ground. I first experienced the power of tension inside my body while experimenting with balloons as my instrument. The sound from the friction of leaking air and touch is processed through Max/MSP, magnifying the pressures held within me. Eventually, it bursts under my touch, echoing through the acoustic space and snapping me back to my body, leaving behind a vast sonic void where resonance continues to linger. I build wooden instruments called Arbrasson. Like the human body, it grows from the ground, carrying histories and bearing traces of water and sunlight over time. Cutting the wood with varying spacing and depth creates points of entry into these connections. By touching the gaps with my palms, I listen to its story not through conventional musical notes, but through complex resonances shaped by its grain. My body is drawn to repetitive gestures, gradually attuning to internal rhythms and learning to stay within time as a voice emerges through subtle change. This ongoing process of touching, listening, and imagining forms an evolving relationship with the instrument and extends into my Max/MSP practice, where I treat code as a living system, responsive to uncertainty, allowing material and digital processes to coexist as sites of improvisation and discovery.
contact
huichunyang1999@gmail.com