Bio
Huichun Yang (楊惠鈞) is a Taiwanese experimental musician and technologist based between Brooklyn, New York and Providence, Rhode Island. She improvises with self-built wooden instruments, balloons, and mouth harps alongside electronics and computer processing, transforming bodily tension into sound. Through breath and touch, her performances use inner rhythm to build relationships between body and instrument. She performs in collaborative projects including Oreo Cookie Therapy (with Femi Shonuga-Fleming) and EndGrain (with Jake Sokolov-Gonzalez).
She has taught live coding at the Rhode Island School of Design and led workshops at the NYU ITP program. Her work has been presented at DIY venues and internationally at ICMC (Boston), Non-Event (Boston), Residual Noise (Providence), EESF (California), and the SOUND/IMAGE Festival (London). She received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2025 and the Kindling Fund Grant through SPACE (Andy Warhol Foundation Regional Regranting Program) in 2026.
Statement
Since leaving my motherland, the histories that once grounded me feel suspended, like a balloon drifting without reference. Breath becomes a way to navigate this condition. Where does it come from? Where does it go? What does it carry?
My work approaches breath as a sonic and physical material moving through bodies and space. Balloons are central to this exploration. Their thin latex skin holds air under pressure, cloning another self of inner tension that becomes a living instrument. Through touch, friction, and the slow release of air, computational systems transform breath into hissing, humming, and vibrating sounds, revealing states of vulnerability and resistance.
Through performance, I develop gestures that allow my body to remain in its own time, loosening the hold of audience expectation. Internal repetition becomes like ocean waves, shaping how I touch and play wooden instruments. These gestures shift my sense of time and open a way of sensing beyond the body. A sonic world emerges within imagination.
Building instruments with wood, electronics, and code becomes a way of constructing a space to inhabit in-between worlds, where sound resonates, accumulates, and disorients time. Making instruments is not about ownership, but responsibility. It is a practice of care and communication, with materials and with the body I inhabit.
contact
huichunyang1999@gmail.com